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4/01/2011

TAP, 710 Court Ruling, America Fast Forward, DesertXpress FEIS, Subway Wi-Fi, Bad Bridges & More


Caltrans Press Release

The City Fix

Beverly Hills Weekly

Planetizen

Pasadena Star-News

AltTransport

Westwood-Century City Patch

DesertXpress: Las Vegas To Victorville (Final Environmental Impact Statement now available)
Federal Railroad Administration

U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog

StreetsBlog LA

New York Times

Los Angeles Times

Associated Press

Argonaut

CityWatch

Los Angeles Times

International Business Times

Mayor Villaraigosa And "America Fast Forward" (audio)
KCRW Which Way LA?

The Source

Ventura County Star

Transportation Nation

Los Angeles Times

Pasadena Star-News

Reading L.A.: Robert Fogelson Examines A City "Hooked On Growth" ("Fogelson provides probably the best chapters ever written on the rise and fall of the city’s "interurban," or electric streetcar, networks. Those chapters also turn out to be a study -- since the streetcars were privately owned -- of the relationship in L.A.'s early years between mass transit and speculative real-estate development. Fogelson counts L.A.'s failure to take over those rail networks in the 1920s, as they began to lose money with the rise of the car, as one of the city's most historic missed opportunities.")
Los Angeles Times

Planning Report

Federal Computer Week

South Pasadena Officials Tasked With Closing A Near $700,000 Budget [Shortfall] For Next Year ("Staff was instructed to look into the efficiency of the Gold Link, a shuttle bus that drops people off at South Pasadena's Gold Line station.")
Pasadena Star-News

Next American City

LA Weekly

Daily Breeze

Transit Acceleration Campaign Goes National ("If it were constrained to voter-approved funding streams like Los Angeles's Measure R it could well usher in a new era of these measures, in which most voters could vote up or down on a set of plans knowing that if passed, all of them would be built and running in just ten years, soon enough to affect most voters' lives.")
Human Transit

StreetsBlog DC

What Rodeo Drive Looked Like In 1925 & More Hidden Treasures Of SoCal's Archives ("We asked the members of L.A. as Subject to dig through their collections and select one item that helps Southern Californians understand our region's heritage from diverse points of view." Metro Transportation Library & Archive shares the story of a rare map from the 1920s)
LA As Subject via KCET

PC Magazine