LA Parking, Beverly Hills Subway, Metrolink Parking, CAHSR PPP?, Velomobiles & More

Assessing The Value Of Delay To Truckers And Carriers (44p. PDF)

National Center For Freight & Infrastructure Research & Education / Texas Transportation Institute

Brucker Discusses Subway Tunnel With State Architect In Sacramento (p. 3 of 20p. PDF)
Beverly Hills Weekly

City Council Votes To End Red-Light Camera Program ("The MTA manages 69 red light photo cameras on the Blue, Orange and Gold lines, many of which are in Los Angeles...The MTA is now reviewing it’s photo red light program.")

Los Angeles Wave

City Seeks To Ease Parking Restrictions For Driveways: The City's Transportation Committee Is Working On A Draft Motion To Bring Relief To Residents Affected By The Recent "Apron Parking" Crackdown

Venice Patch

Data-Driven Support Tools For Transit Data Analysis, Scheduling And Planning (link to full-text report)

University Of Minnesota Center For Transportation Studies

Expanded Parking Planned For Newhall Metrolink Station

Santa Clarita Valley Signal

Follow Me: Tweeting Transit News Builds Community, Knowledge & New Information Tools

Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog

For Whom The Road Tolls

Governing

Game Changer: Disabled Angelenos Win Major Concessions From City

StreetsBlog LA

High-Speed Rail -- Public, Private Or Both?: Assessing The Prospects, Promise And Pitfalls Of Public-Private Partnerships (45p. PDF)

U.S. PIRG Education Fund

Innovative Federal Financing Is Expanded Under House Bill ("Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called TIFIA a “key component” that “has proven to be a powerful tool in getting worthwhile projects launched from the drawing board to their construction phase.”)

Transportation For America

The Latest Target Of House Spending Cuts: EPA's Smart Growth Office

StreetsBlog DC

The Los Angeles River: Through Culverts To The Sea, A Waterway That Says A Lot About Its City

The Economist

Metro's Lost World
Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles County Supervisor, Third District

Mica And Rail Supporters Meet Halfway

StreetsBlog DC

New Projects Fuel Downtown L.A.'s Transformation

Retail Traffic

New Report: Failure To Invest In Transportation Infrastructure Will Costs Jobs, Shrink GDP

Natural Resources Defense Council Switchboard Blog

Papers Selected For The 19th International Symposium On Transportation And Traffic Theory(Berkeley, Calif. : July 18-20, 2011)

Science Direct

Pod People: Velomobiles Tour The U.S. This Summer

GOOD

Red-Light Cameras Taken Seriously In Ventura County
Ventura County Star

Report Casts Doubt On Forecasts For California High Speed Rail: In A Review Of California's High Speed Rail Project, A Panel Of Experts Determine That Ridership And Revenue Projections Need To Be More Conservative

Los Angeles Times

Villaraigosa Now Says He's Not Made A Final Subway Decision

Beverly Hills Courier

Wyden, Hoeven, Begich Introduce TRIP Bond Program To Help Build Transportation Infrastructure: TRIPs Will Inject $50 Billion In Private Investment into Transportation Projects
United States Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) Press Release
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