All-American Streetcar Boom Fuels Urban Future
NPR
Analyst: PPPs Are Good For Transportation Infrastructure, Bad For Real Estate
American City & County
The Limitations Of Public-Private Partnerships: Recent Lessons From The Surface Transportation And Real Estate Sectors (32p. PDF)
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Building A Multi-Modal Downtown Long Beach
Long Beach Post
Buses vs. Rail: Conservatives Do Battle Over Which Mode Is Better
StreetsBlog DC
Businesses Not On Board With Bus Plan ("While local politicians say a high-speed bus line through [San Bernardino] will spur economic growth and reduce traffic congestion, some merchants affected by the project believe it will kill their business and worsen the problems it proposes to solve.")
Redlands Daily Facts
End Of The Line For Caltrain?: How Silicon Valley Could Fare If The West's Second Oldest Passenger Rail Line Were To Curtail Service
Palo Alto Online News
Fresno Releases First Draft Of HSR Station Plans
California High Speed Rail Blog
Get Involved In CicLAvia Expansion Eastward!
CicLAvia
A Hidden Treasure Struggles In Los Angeles (LACMA has been contracted to care for Watts Towers after city layoffs. "It’s an international icon, but it’s a local blind spot.")
New York Times
House Republican Cuts Bypass Real Waste And Bash Merit-Based, Fuel-Saving Programs
Natural Resources Defense Council Switchboard Blog
MapQuest Joins Hopstop, Google, Offers Transit Directions
Transportation Nation
MapQuest Launches Pedestrian And Rail Transit Routing
AOL Press Release
More Inland Trains Will Increase Subsidy, Capital Costs ("Giving Riverside County residents more options for hopping on Metrolink trains will come at a hefty cost -- potentially $300 million.")
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Moving Beyond The Automobile ("Each Tuesday over the next ten weeks, tune in to Streetfilms as we'll be posting a new chapter about smart and proven strategies to reduce traffic and improve street safety for all users. We'll be tackling many fascinating topics in the next few months from "Bus Rapid Transit" to "Congestion Pricing" to "Car Share" to show how each can help people to use cars less -- or not at all.")
StreetFilms
MTA Will Hold Series Of Meetings Seeking Resident Input On 710 Freeway Gap
Pasadena Star-News
NYC MTA Posts Bust Stop Numbers, Now You Can Text For Live Bus Information
Transportation Nation
Obama Budget Proposes $556B, Long-Term Transportation Bill
StreetsBlog DC
Obama's Budget To Call For Slashing Oil Tax Breaks, Boosting Clean Energy
The Hill
Olympic Transit Legacy A Mixed Result (Vancouver's once-soaring post-Olympics transit ridership has since dropped)
CBC
Opinion: High-Speed Rail Is A Fast Track To Government Waste
Washington Post
Opinion: It's Investment In People, Not High-Speed Rail That Will Keep America Competitive
FOX News
Opinion: Move Toward A Life With Fewer Wheels
Los Angeles Downtown News
Opinion: Runaway Trains: Obama's High-Speed Rail Plan Is A Fiscal Pipedream
Wall Street Journal
Parking "Credits" To Be Decided For Village By LA City Council
Los Feliz Ledger
Pelosi: We Have A Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Deficit
Transportation Nation
Positive Train Control: Metrolink's PTC Implementation Push
Progressive Railroading
Public Transit Operators: Driver Cellphone Detection Has Arrived ("In an ever expanding effort to keep public transportation safe, LA Metro [is launching] a unique system that reliably detects cell phone usage and provides instant video archiving upon detection.")
Passenger Transport
Public Transportation Key To Transforming Communities: Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker Talks About His City's Investment In Transit
U.S. News & World Report
Rail, Transpo Projects Face GOP Ax In Spending Bill
Transportation Nation
Rockefeller Foundation Survey: Americans Rank Transportation Needs High But Don't Want To Pay The Costs
Washington Post
San Bernardino: Santa Fe Depot Renovation Nearly Done
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Sorting Out Rail-Bus Differences: Endnotes
Human Transit
Sustainable Design: San Francisco's Transbay Transit Center (Expected to open in 2017 with a LEED Gold rating and 5-acre rooftop park)
American Society Of Landscape Architects' The Dirt Blog
A Very San Franciscan Transit Center (includes rendering and animation)
Metropolis Magazine
Transbay Transit Center (interactive project website)
Transbay Center
Vandalism Or Art?: Debate Over Graffiti Arises As An LA Tagging Crew Is Busted
Examiner
VERDEXCHANGE Global Eco Cities Panel Explores Innovations In City Building ("In California, the carbon footprint is actually significantly based on transportation.")
Planning Report
#WMATA #FAIL: A Guide To [D.C.] Metro's Rough Life On Twitter
TBD
