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2/04/2011

Metro's 2-Minute Films, Expo Line Contract, South Vermont Subway?, Stimulus' Transportation Jobs, Bicycle Transit Center, Taxis Of Tomorrow & More

Architecture Firm Gensler To Move From Santa Monica To Downtown L.A.
Los Angeles Times

Award-Winning Transit-Oriented Development May Never Get Transit
StreetsBlog Network

Bicycle Transit Center
(includes impressive photos and architectural plans for Bikestation, Washington's Capital Bikeshare program's storage, repair and retail facility at D.C. Union Station)
Designboom

Bringing Science To Bike Sharing
Wired

Cavernous Crusades: With A Variety Of Construction Solutions, $15 Billion Worth Of Mass Transit Construction Is Well Under Way In New York City
Engineering News-Record

Editorial: A Bus Only Brouhaha: Bus-Only Lanes For Wilshire Boulevard Are The Latest Casualty Of The Political Wars Over Transit Policy In L.A.
Los Angeles Times

Expo Board Awards Light Rail Contract, Satisfied That Questions About Firms In Joint Venture Are Not Serious
Los Angeles Times

Feasibility Of A South Vermont Subway Line
Wilshire/Vermont

High-Speed Rail Leaders Delay Release Of Bay Area Plans For At Least A Year
San Mateo Mercury News

In U.S., Alternative Energy Bill Does Best Among Eight Proposals
Gallup

L.A. Air Officials To Vote On Pollution Trading
Los Angeles Times

LA's First Bus-Only Lane Hits Some Roadblocks
Natural Resources Defense Council Switchboard Blog

Montebello City Council To Consider Full Trench Resolution: A Townhall On Grade Separation Of The Alameda Corridor Railroad Tracks In Montebello Is Set For Feb. 24
EGP News

New Report Reveals Smart Transportation Spending Creates Jobs, Grows The Economy
Smart Growth America
Recent Lessons From The Stimulus: Transportation Funding And Job Creation (16p. PDF : February, 2011)
Smart Growth America
Which States Squandered Their Stimulus Money?
The Daily Beast

NYC Tunnel Tour, Part 1: Inside The Second Avenue Subway
(video : Insider tour of the first phase of a long-planned $4.5-billion Second Avenue Subway serving Manhattan's East Side)
McGraw-Hill Construction

Planning Department Considering Stronger Bike Parking Ordinance
StreetsBlog LA

Rosendahl Cuts Bus-Only Lanes In His District, Then Urges Santa Monica To Add Them
Santa Monica Lookout

SANBAG Board Balks At Condemnation Plan For Transit Project
Riverside Press-Enterprise

South Bay Group Submits Highway Projects List To MTA
Daily Breeze

Submit Your Videos About L.A. To Screen On The City's Buses
("Out The Window is looking for two-minute videos that are either created by local artists and filmmakers, or prominently feature Los Angeles as a subject or a setting. The selected videos will be shown on more than 2,000 Metro buses driving throughout the county daily -- that's an audience of over one million viewers a day.")
GOOD
Out The Window: About/By/In Los Angeles
Freewaves

Taxi Of Tomorrow (Outcome of Invitation to auto manufacturers and designers to submit their best ideas for a purpose-built vehicle to serve as a New York City taxicab. Whichever of these designs that the City selects, if any, will be the next New York City taxicab)
City Of New York

With A Deep Dig into Its Past, Perugia Built An Energy-Saving Future ("Perugia shows how even a small city can reap benefits from investment in pedestrian-friendly infrastructure. All it took was a succession of progressive-minded city officials, urban planners, and resident-dreamers who saw how Perugia’s geographic and historical preservation challenges could be used to its advantage.")
National Geographic