10 Best Cities For Public Transportation: Obama Announced More Funding For High Speed Rail, But These Cities Are Already Excelling (Among cities with the best combination of public transportation investment, ridership and safety, Los Angeles ranks #7)
U.S. News & World Report
40 Years Ago Today: San Fernando Earthquake Topples Freeways & Prompts Seismic Retrofitting Plan
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
"Amtrak Joe" Biden In Philly, Announces A New Plan For High-Speed Rail
StreetsBlog DC
As Huge Deficit Looms, Caltrain CEO Paid $400,000
KTVU
Change In Transit Commuting For Areas Around Some LA Metro Stations, 2000 To 2005-2009
LA Subway Blog
EPA Recognizes Cities For Using Smart Growth Tools That Get Seniors Active
StreetsBlog DC
The Good Wait: What Those Subway Countdown Clocks Do To Your Brain
New York Magazine
High-Speed Heaven Or Boondoggle Express: The Obama Administration Has Come Through With Some Serious Money For High-Speed Rail, But Arguments That This Might Be Money Ill Spent Dont Spring Soley From Political Nay-Saying
Miller-McCune
Key House Republicans Aren't Buying Administration HSR Proposal
StreetsBlog DC
An LA Streetcar Is Desired To Help Create Jobs: In The 1920s, LA's Red Car System Was State Of The Art For Mass Transport. Now A New Streetcar System For Downtown LA Is Proposed Which Could Ease Traffic Congestion And Create Jobs
NBC Los Angeles
Lack Of HSR Funding Undermining Agreements With Freight Rail
California High Speed Rail Blog
[D.C.] Metro Escalator Problems Growing, Report Finds
Washington Post
Escalator Performance Report (19p. PDF)
WMATA Board Customer Service And Operations Committee
Measuring Walking And Cycling Using The PABS (Pedestrian And Bicycling Survey) Approach: A Low-Cost Survey Method For Local Communities (106p. PDF)
Mineta Transportation Institute
Mica & Shuster Skeptical Of New Obama Rail Spending
U.S. House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee
Obama Announcement Riles Up Valley Cities Opposed To High-Speed Rail Route
Whittier Daily News
Obama's $53 Billion High-Speed Rail Plan: Some Historical Perspective
Infrastructurist
Obama's $53 Billion Rail Plan: Applause, Jeers, And Many Unanswered Questions
Transportation Nation
Opening The Loop With Transit Programs ("Two more agencies have jumped to the front of the pack in a push for an open-payment system that would allow riders to use a bank-issued contactless card for public transit instead of a transit-issued ticket or card.")
Contactless News
Should Blue Lines Have Blue Buses? ("Los Angeles Metro has painted their fleet two colors, red for Rapid and orange for Local. Even with two colors, the "Local" is problematic. Orange really means "everything but Rapid," including limited-stop and freeway-express services that wouldn't satisfy anyone's definition of a "local." And even so, sometimes you see an orange bus on a Rapid line, or vice versa.")
Human Transit
Study Finds Streetcar Will Create Massive Growth In Jobs, Development, Tourism & Revenue (4p. PDF : press release)
Jose Huizar, Councilmember 14th District
Major Findings (summary)
Factsheet (12p. PDF : delineates major benefits)
Executive Briefing (11p. PDF)
L.A. Streetcar Economic Analysis: Report & Technical Index (64p. PDF)
Resources
Transit Buzz TV Reaches 30 Million Monthly Viewers
Mass Transit
Vice President Biden Announces Six-Year Plan To Build National High-Speed Rail Network
The White House
Building A 21st Century Infrastructure (video)
The White House
The White House Stakes Its Political Capital On A Massive Intercity Rail Plan
Transport Politic
