10 Transportation Trends That Rocked 2010
Wired
America's High-Speed Rail Shambles: Where Has All The Money Gone?
Telegraph (U.K.)
Bob's Big Boy In West Covina Closes In Anticipation Of 10 Freeway Carpool Lane Expansion
Pasadena Star-News
BP Develops Improved Ethanol, Hasn't Spilled It Yet ("Scientists have created a supercharged yeast that can gobble up sugar faster and more efficiently than any other yeast.")
Fast Company
Brown To Propose Broad List Of Budget Cuts ("Brown wants to eliminate redevelopment agencies altogether; it is not clear whether that would require voter approval. He intends to use the money to offset state budget costs for one year and then give the money to counties and schools thereafter.")
Sacramento Bee
BusChopper: Metro Weighs More Cuts, Changes To Lines
Curbed LA
Calif. Amtrak Ridership Rising On State Trains
San Francisco Chronicle
China To Invest More Than $100 Billion In Rail
MarketWatch
CicLAvia Organizers Plan For Round 2
Los Angeles Times
Critics Charge New GOP Rules Will Hurt Transportation Funding
Bond Buyer
Dramatic Spike In Gas Prices Forecast
Washington Times
Federal Officials Give OK For Preliminary Engineering On Westside Subway
Los Angeles Times
Highway 330 Repair May Take Two Years
San Bernardino Sun
L.A. Budget Chief Says Police Hiring At Risk Without Lease Of City Parking Garages
Los Angeles Times
Metro Proposes More Cuts To Bus System
StreetsBlog LA
Full Statement Of Dana Gabbard On Metro Proposed Service Changes For June Of 2011
StreetsBlog LA
Preliminary Statement Of The Transit Coalition On Metro's Proposed Service Cuts For June Of 2011
StreetsBlog LA
Kymberleigh Richards' Statement On Proposed Metro Service Changes For 2011
StreetsBlog LA
Metro To Hold Six Public Hearings In February On Proposed Bus Service Changes For Implementation In June 2011
Metro
Metro To Move Forward With Westside Line, Downtown Subway Connector
Beverly Hills Courier
Metrolink Looking To Test Express Service, Could Save Riders 45 Minutes
KCET SoCal Focus
NYC Tries "Rapid" Buses In Bid To Cut Transit Costs
New York Times
Port Of L.A. To Ensure That Small Businesses Get 5% Of Contracts
Daily Breeze
A Powerful Argument For U.S. High-Speed Rail ("The first response to a proposed rail project these days is that it’s too expensive and won’t pay for itself. But if economic efficiency is the ultimate goal, then all types of transportation should have to pay for their infrastructure. That means drivers should cover the cost of road maintenance and construction (which they don't), and that means raising the gas tax (which we won't)")
Infrastructurist
Railroad Bridge Retrofit To Cause Traffic Delays In Arcadia
Pasadena Star-News
The Secret Underground World Of New York City
Wired
Send In Your Transpo Questions For The 112th Congress
StreetsBlog DC
South Bay Bicycle Coalition To Hold Meetings On Regional Bike Path Plan
Daily Breeze
Stick Shift: Chris Burden Makes Automated Art Out Of L.A. Freeways
Vanity Fair
Subway And Regional Connector Chugging Along Into 2011 (Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa)
Huffington Post
Transport Study Derails Thinking On Outer Suburbs ("Residents in the outer suburbs should not have to wait for higher housing densities before getting better public transport, according to research that could defuse one of the most bitter controversies in urban planning...Higher densities did not always mean better mass transit, citing the relatively low rail and bus use in Los Angeles, even though it is the most densely populated city in the United States.")
The Age (Australia)
US Approval Brings LA's Westside Light Rail Closer ("Los Angeles has received federal approval for preliminary engineering work on a $4.2 billion light rail line connecting downtown with the city's west side." Westside Subway Extension is erroneously depicted as light rail)
San Francisco Chronicle
What's Bugging You? Old, Worn Railroad Tracks ("If you have old abandoned railroad tracks in your neighborhood, the MTA can let you know if they're the ones set to be replaced. Rail companies such as BNSF have a website where you can report rough railroad crossings and they will send engineers to check them out.")
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