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Bay Area Transit Agencies Look To Trade Leaders

San Francisco Chronicle

Carmageddon Creates Jobs

LA Observed

The Carmageddon Effect ("As the hysteria fades, Planetizen's Tim Halbur asks: is there a real story here about good transportation planning?")

Planetizen

Carmageddon Shows LA Doesn't Have To Depend On Freeways

California High Speed Rail Blog

Carmageddon: Skeptics Question Value Of Additional 405 Carpool Lane

Daily Breeze

Carmageddon Success Has Some Hoping L.A. Will Ditch Cars More Often

Los Angeles Times

Carmadeggon [sic] Time-Lapse Video: Mulholland Drive Bridge Demolition (the entire bridge demolition in 1.5 minutes)

LAist

"Carmageddon's" Good Karma: L.A. City And County Officials Are Asking Whether Drivers Can Be Persuaded To Leave Their Cars Parked More Often

Los Angeles Times

A Century City Station At Constellation? You Betcha!

Huffington Post

Cities Ask State's Top Court To Block Raid On Redevelopment Funds

Los Angeles Times

Crenshaw Subway Coalition Gears Up For Legal Battle, Metro Pushes Date For EIR Review

StreetsBlog LA

Editorial: It Was A Little Slice Of Carmageddon: Traffic Was Great, People Were Neighborly, No Great Disaster Snarled The Dismantling Of The Mulholland Bridge's South Lanes. Too Bad We Can't Do It Every Weekend

Los Angeles Times

Gettin' Bugged Drivin' Up And Down The Same Old Strip ("The reason to build a subway underneath Wilshire is not to relieve traffic on the Santa Monica Freeway; the reason for building it or any transit system is to create an efficient and alternative way to get from point A to point B. If some of the subway riders would otherwise drive, fine, but with population growth the 10 will have more traffic no matter what.")

Santa Monica Lookout

The Groupon Approach To Public Transport In Cities

This Big City

In State's High-Speed Rail Plan, Ambitions Collide With Financial Realities ("Even as the federal government has channeled more money to California, the project remains tens of billions short of its projected cost. Firm sources of funding to fill the gap don't yet exist.")

New York Times

Ins And Outs Of Quiet Cars: Railroad's YouTube Video Enlightens Commuters

Boston Globe

L.A.-Bound Drivers To Find Lane Restrictions On I-15 ("The work will begin tonight and take place on weeknights from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. until October.")

Las Vegas Sun

New Pollution Standards Are In The Air ("Studies have shown that children growing up in the San Gabriel Valley have advanced aging of their lungs - an effect created by ground-level ozone.")

Whittier Daily News

Norwalk Proposes Cuts For Whittier Bus Lines

Whittier Daily News

Paris, London, Washington Illustrate How Rodeo Drive Merchants Needn't Fear The Subway

Angelenos Against Gridlock

Post-9/11, Biggest Terror Threat Is Underground

Associated Press

Pringle Quits High-Speed Rail Board

Orange County Register

Proposal To Merge BART, AC Transit Gains Steam

KTVU

Public Participation Strategies For Transit: A Synthesis Of Transit Practice (96p. PDF)

Transit Cooperative Research Program

Railroad Day On Capitol Hill: Delivering The Rail Message Amid The Debt Din

Progressive Railroading

The Real Lessons Of Carmageddon: Angelenos Aren't Idiots, We Have Too Many Highways

StreetsBlog LA

Rich People Love Sidewalks, And Other Livability Lessons from USDOT

StreetsBlog DC

Scenes From Carmaheaven And The Mulholland Bridge Demolition

Curbed LA

Sometimes It Starts With A Facebook Page

Blogging Los Angeles

Valley-Westside/I-405 Rail

via Facebook

Valley-Westside Rail

Transit Coalition

South Pasadena Downtown Revitalization Project Expected To Move Forward

Pasadena Star-News

Transit Stops And Stations: Transit Managers' Perspectives On Evaluating Performance (19p. PDF)

Journal Of Public Transportation

What Bipartisanship Hath Wrought: Zilch For Bike-Ped In Senate Bill Outline

StreetsBlog DC

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