Camageddon Approaches, Watts Station & Blue Line, Culver City Expo, Students & Transit, DesertXpress & More

40.5 Things To Do In L.A. Without Your Car

Huffington Post

405 Freeway's Path Tells A Story Of Near-Constant Change: Between The Time When The Sepulveda Pass Was A Trail And This Weekend's "Carmageddon," The Sepulveda Pass Has Been Under Construction

Los Angeles Times

1904 Train Station To Help Connect Watts Towers To The Blue Line
Curbed LA

Amtrak To Surpass 30 Million Passengers For The First Time

The Hill

Are Taxes On Carsharing Too High?: A Review Of The Public Benefits And Tax Burden Of An Expanding Transportation Sector (44p. PDF)

DePaul University Chaddick Institute For Metropolitan Development

As "Carmageddon" Approaches, Other Cities Offer Incentives To Avoid Westside

Los Angeles Times

Beverly Hills Versus The Westside Subway

LA Weekly

Budget For A Millennial America: A Federal Budget Plan That Reflects The Millennial Generation's Priorities: A Think 2040 Initiative (24p. PDF : 3,000 Millennials were interviewed to develop federal spending priorities. Among the findings: Replace the gas tax with a carbon tax, and increase funding for high-speed rail)

Roosevelt Institute Campus Network

Businesses Look To Cash In On Carmageddon

Associated Press

Carmageddon: L.A.'s Cultural Institutions Plan To Hunker Down

Los Angeles Times

Camageddon: LAPD Say No To Parties, Bike Rides On 405

Los Angeles Times

Case Studies Of The Access And Mobility Impact Of Freeway Removal (13p. PDF)

University Of Connecticut

City Audit: Port Of L.A. Needs To Avoid Mushrooming Project Costs

Daily Breeze

Congressional Research Service: Northeast Corridor Privatization Plan Violates Constitution
StreetsBlog DC

Culver City Expo Line Station Delayed? Vice Mayor Malsin Explains
Culver City Times

Editorial: Transportation Bill Must Fund An Array Of Modes

Sacramento Bee

The Expo/Culver City Standoff Drags On, But Authority Says It Won't Affect Opening
StreetsBlog LA

For Los Angeles, 53 Hours Without The Freeway Spells "Carmageddon": Closure Of 405 Drives Stores To Slash Prices; "It's The Perfect Time To Get A Tattoo"

Wall Street Journal

How Do You Promote Transit To New Students?

Metro Magazine

How We Travel: A Sustainable National Program For Travel Data (184p. PDF : Assesses "the state of passenger and freight travel data at the federal, state, and local levels and to make recommendations for an achievable and sustainable system for estimating personal and freight travel to support public and private transportation planning and decision making.")
U.S. Transportation Research Board Special Report

HSR Panel Imagines Life With Robot Cows, High-Speed Tanning ("Last night, nonprofit architectural group Van Alen Institute hosted "After Car Culture: Designing the New LA," a panel convened to discuss the local implications of a high-speed rail design contest they launched in late March.")
Curbed LA

Ideas For Downtown LA: Add Alfresco Dining To Hope Street a la Madrid, Spain
Brigham Yen

JetBlue Offers "Carmageddon" Flyover: Long Beach To Burbank For $4 (The flights have sold out in three hours)
Los Angeles Times

London's Useless Bus Route "Spider Maps" Due For An Overhaul (looks at weaknesses of system maps that do not include destinations and landmarks)

Global Urbanist Planning

New Coalition Looks To Reform L.A.'s Transit-Oriented Development
StreetsBlog LA

Nominate A City For The 2012 Sustainable Transport Award!
The City Fix

Peak Car Is Real
California High Speed Rail Blog

The Real Problem With Carmageddon ("Even if the 405 doesn't clog up instantly and does flow freely for a few years after the project is finished, I find it hard to believe that the time savings will compensate for all the time lost during its construction.")

California Planning & Development Report

Riverside Officials Approve Summit To Discuss Splitting California
KABC-7

Train From Las Vegas To Calif. Gets Environment OK (DesertXpress)
Sacramento Bee

What Maps Should Be At Stops And Stations?
Human Transit

White House Not Giving Up On Infrastructure Bank

Transportation Nation

With L.A. 405 Closure, It's All About Surviving Carmageddon

CNN

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