Back To Basics In Transportation Planning
Project For Public Spaces
Bring Transit To Senior Citizens, Or Bring Seniors To Transit?
StreetsBlog DC
Calculating The Environmental Impact Of Driving In The United States
The City Fix
California Cities Start Recycling Roads
GOOD
Decorated Cable Cars Of 1892 & Other Notable 4th Of July Anniversaries From Early Los Angeles Transit History
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Democrats Chase The Transpo Spending Unicorn
Transportation Nation
Do-It-Yourself: Use The Gas Slider To Analyze Transportation Costs In Your City
Abogo: Transportation Costs Made Apparent
Dozens Of US Cities Line Up To Contest 2010 Census: With State Budgets Tight, Cities Hope To Push 2010 Census Counts Upward To Get Federal Dollars ("Cities considering challenges based on the costs and potential financial rewards include...Santa Ana, San Jose and Long Beach.")
Associated Press
Editorial: Bullet Train's Folly Factor Rises
Orange County Register
Flat Rate Established For Taxis Traveling To And From LAX (to and from Santa Monica)
Santa Monica Patch
High-Speed Rail Authority, PR Firm Go Separate Ways
Los Angeles Times
How To Get People To Pay Higher Taxes
Infrastructurist
In Heat Of The Moment, Twitter Is Fast T Fix (Boston's MBTA is asking customers to tweet about broken air-conditioning in rail cars)
Boston Herald
Increasing Public Transport Use With Smart Campaigns ("Marketing efforts by public transportation systems are vastly outspent by those of the major automobile companies, which spend billions each year to attract new customers...public transportation systems must not forget about branding, marketing, and advertising and using smart, creative, cost-efficient campaigns targeted at increasing and maintaining ridership.")
American Society Of Landscape Architects' The Dirt Blog
LADOT Touts Spike In Rider Satisfaction
Los Angeles Daily News
Live Chat: I-405 Countdown To Closure, July 16-17 (transcript of Wednesday's Metro Live Chat with Metro's Executive Director of Highway Projects and Executive Director of Transit Project Delivery)
Metro
Reading L.A.: Mike Davis, "City Of Quartz" And Southern California's "Spatial Apartheid"
Los Angeles Times
Riders Rave About DASH Service, Survey Says
Blog Downtown
Supervisor Ridley-Thomas Proposes Compensation For Rail Line
Los Angeles Wave
Tips For Air Travel During 405 Closure: Los Angeles International Airport Officials Say They Expect Impacts On Departing And Arriving Passengers, But There Are Ways To Avoid Frenzy
Hermosa Beach Patch
U.S. Opens New Round Of Transportation Grants
Reuters
Washington Metro Could Benefit From Clarified Board Roles And Responsibilities, Improved Strategic Planning (69p. PDF)
U.S. Government Accountability Office
West L.A. Residents Give Their Input On Area Transportation Problems: Parking Concerns Dominate The Discussion At A Meeting Wednesday Organized By City Offiicals To Get Residents' Feedback On The Westside Mobility Plan
Brentwood Patch
Westside Subway Extension Work Could Begin In 2012
Los Angeles Business
William Shatner's "Carmageddon" Tweet: Watch My Documentary
Los Angeles Times
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