Today's Headlines - more at Metro

1/12/2011

Metro Retires Last Diesel Bus, Leasing L.A.'s Parking, HSR's Most Promising Corridors, Freight Rail Competition, Transit And Social Media & More

2010 Turned Out To Be A Good Year For The Local Ports
Long Beach Press-Telegram

Better Transit, Even On The Cheap, Doesn't Always Come Easy
Transport Politic

California Budget: On Balance, Not Bad For Transportation
Transportation Nation

California Needs Smart Station Planning To Maximize High-Speed Rail's Benefits
Transportation For America

City Of Los Angeles Call For Projects Review: Car Capacity Enhancements
StreetsBlog LA

Community Watchdog Cary Brazeman Fights Villaraigosa's Crusade To Allow Development Everywhere: L.A.'s Postwar Zoning Code On The Chopping Block
LA Weekly

Diesel Era Ends For MTA Buses: Metro Will Become The Only Major Transit Agency In The U.S. With A Fleet Run Entirely On Alternative Fuels. Officials Say The Shift Has Sharply Cut Emissions Of Cancer-Causing Pollution
Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Hit The Brakes On California's High-Speed Rail Experiment
Washington Post
The Washington Post's Ignorant Attack On California HSR
California High Speed Rail Blog

Editorial: L.A. Must Turn Over Parking Garages
Los Angeles Daily News

Editorial: L.A.'s Garage Opener: It's Time To Lease City-Owned Parking Structures To Private Businesses
Los Angeles Times

Experts: Tales Of State's Demise Greatly Exaggerated
California Watch

LAX Exit Ramps Will Close Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Nights
Beverly Hills Courier

Major New Study ID's Best U.S. High-Speed Rail Corridors: Most Promising -- Populous Regions With Large Job Centers And Transit, Recommends Federal Investment In Corridors With The Greatest Ridership Potential (3p. PDF)
America 2050 Press Release
High-Speed Rail In America (56p. PDF : Full-text report)
America 2050

Mica Is "Pretty Confident" That New Rules Won't Starve Highway Trust Fund
StreetsBlog DC

New Study Reveals The Hidden Environmental Cost Of Parking
Infrastructurist
Parking Infrastructure: Energy, Emissions, And Automobile Life-Cycle Environmental Accounting
IOP Science Environmental Research Letters

Opinion: The Pitfalls Of "Realignment": With "Realignment," In Which State And Local Governments Swap Various Funding Streams And Service Responsibilities, The Devil Is In The Details (by Zev Yaroslavsky and Gloria Molina)
Los Angeles Times

Public Transit Funding Slightly Better In Jerry Brown's Proposed Budget
StreetsBlog SF

Social Media: Transit Agencies Connect With Riders In New Ways
("LACMTA also has been using Twitter and Facebook for several years. In addition to the typical news and service alerts, the agency uses the tools to obtain feedback on projects. With dozens of transportation projects under way or on the drawing board following the 2008 passage of the Measure R sales tax, there are plenty of projects that LACMTA wants the public to have a say in.")
Progressive Railroading

Stockholm's Central Station Harvests Body Heat
GOOD

U.S. Considers Rules To Spur Freight-Rail Competition
Wall Street Journal