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2/28/2011

L.A.'s DIY Complete Streets, 710 Plans, Union Station History, Downtown Streetcar Funding Approved, 405 Bridge & More

$1 Million Approved For Streetcar ("The new funding and existing allocations by the Community Redevelopment Agency are enough to take the streetcar through its environmental and engineering phases.")
Blog Downtown

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Human Transit

Los Angeles Downtown News

San Diego Union-Tribune

Los Angeles Daily News

Sacramento Bee

California High Speed Rail Blog

StreetsBlog LA

The Colourful Buses Of Seoul (In Seoul, buses are color coded to indicate which direction they're going, and how quickly. The system "goes a long way toward solving the bus legibility problem.")
Re:Place

Contactless Fares To Be Rolled Out Across London Transport Network ("Payment to allow contactless payment across the “entire transport network” with a compatible bank or credit card.")
MayorWatch

Washington Post
Commuter Page

Palm Springs Desert Sun

Expanding Downtown ("As the transit system becomes more congested, because of job expansion and a lack of transportation improvements, the cost of transportation into the core — in terms of time and money — will increase. This will reduce the appeal of locating offices downtown and encourage new construction to be residential rather than office-based.")
Transport Politic

Newsweek

The City Fix

L.A.'s DIY Complete Streets ("LA’s car oriented designed streets have become a creative canvas of guerilla interventions by LA’s ethnic communities as they retrofit them to ft their needs. Places like Koreatown, the Fashion District, Chinatown, Little Armenia, and the urbiquous Latino neighborhoods illustrate these creative interventions.")
StreetsBlog LA

Beverly Hills Housing

StreetsBlog LA

LA Weekly

Opinion: Rebuilding SB Valley Economy (The mayors of San Bernardino, Redlands, Highland, Colton and Loma Linda detail infrastructure plans and their "collective responsibility to ensure we make the strategic investments required to rebuild our regional economy and ensure its vibrancy and sustainability for the 21st century. Our highest priority has been modernizing our region's transportation infrastructure to ensure our valley is economically attractive to businesses, jobs and residents.")
San Bernardino Sun

California High-Speed Rail Blog

Glendale News-Press

Infrastructurist

San Francisco Chronicle
California Public Utilities Commission Press Release

Miller-McCune

New York Times

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