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America Needs To Remain Bullish On High-Speed Rail

Railist

The Big Roads: The Untold Story Of The Engineers, Visionaries, And Trailblazers Who Created The American Superhighways
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog

Bus Operators And Cyclists, Keeping An Eye On Each Other
Metro Magazine

California Leads Nation In "Green Jobs," Study Says: The Brookings Institution Report, Which Is Likely To Draw More Debate Over What Constitutes A "Green" Job, Found That Almost 320,000 People Work In Such Jobs, And 90,000 Of Them Are In The L.A. Metropolitan Area

Los Angeles Times

Sizing The Clean Economy: The Clean Economy In The Los Angeles, CA Metropolitan Area

Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program

Carmageddon Reading List: 19 Books About The Joys And Terrors Of Transportation
Los Angeles Times

Coincidence? Most Expensive Cities For Parking All Suspiciously Awesome

StreetsBlog Network

The 10 Most Expensive U.S. Cities To Park A Car

Daily Finance

Consumer Behavior Determines Carbon Footprint

The City Fix

Crime Lurks Outside Airports, Rail Stations ("The likelihood of crime exceeds the national average outside 28 of 29 big-city airports in the study and outside all 26 central train stations, says CAP Index, which uses statistics, demographics and computer modeling to determine the likelihood of crime.")

Mass Transit

Downtown Vid Pick: Stan, And Ollie, In The Arts District (Could these scenes from a silent films be the earliest known moving images of the First Street Bridge and Los Angeles' Santa Fe Le Grande Station, which "first opened in 1893 and stayed in operation until Sante Fe moved passenger services to the newly completed Union Station in 1939?")

View From A Loft

ExpressPark Set To Stack The Deck In Favor Of Parking Enforcement

Blog Downtown

Geo-Immersion Makes Maps Come Alive (text and video : "The "clever transportation" project...takes a Google map of Los Angeles and adds a few colorful characteristics. Roads that are clogged with slower moving traffic are colored red and roads where traffic is moving faster are colored green...the program changes the "fastest path" because it takes traffic into consideration, a trick that Google Maps doesn't have.")
National Science Foundation

Gridlock Escape? There's An App For That

KCET

House Republicans Targeting High-Speed Rail Dollars

Voice Of OC

How Trains "Railroaded" The American Economy: First In A Three-Part Series
NPR

LB Airport Set To Open New $58 Million Parking Structure
Long Beach Press-Telegram

Legal Arrangements For Use And Control Of Real-Time Data (55p. PDF)
Transit Cooperative Research Program

Metrolink: Perris Line Could See Approval Wednesday

Riverside Press-Enterprise

Metro's Orange Brigade Hits The Rails ("The intern outreach program and the train car reconfiguration are elements of a broader effort by Metro to boost ridership by increasing its bicycle-friendliness.")
Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles County Supervisor, Third District

The Mica Bill: Good For 30/10, Bad For Everyone Else. How Will Boxer Respond?
StreetsBlog LA

Mica: Dem Attacks on Highway Bill Proposal Are "Disappointing"
The Hill

Mica Knows Workforce Development Works

Transportation Equity Network

Natural History Museum's Expo-Adjacent North Campus Opens Soon
Curbed LA

New Report: How To Improve California's Public Transit System

Newswise

All Aboard: How California Can Increase Investments In Public Transit (27p. PDF)

UCLA Law; Berkeley Law

New Signs To Make Metro's Nextrip Data Easier To Access

Blog Downtown

QR Code Information For Metro Stop At Olympic & Grand (What you would see if you scanned the QR code at the bus stop sign in the Blog Downtown story)

Obama Pushes For Infrastructure Bank Proposal After Debt Deal
The Hill

OCTA Pumps $72.5 Million Into SR-91: Construction On The Project Began Monday And Is Expected To Conclude In September, 2012

OC Metro

Officials Ready Command Center For Carmageddon

Los Angeles Daily News

Opinion: For Sale: U.S. Infrastructure? Like Greece, We May Be Forced To Privatize Large Segments Of Our Transportation System Soon Because Of The Debt Crisis

Los Angeles Times

Parking To Be Limited On Sepulveda, Ventura Blvds During "Carmageddon"

Beverly Hills Courier

Political Stakes Are High For 405 Closure: This Weekend's "Carmageddon" Could Be A Public Relations Fiasco Or A Home Run, Depending On Whether Drivers Heed The Advice Of Officials. Press Conferences, Social Media And Freeway Signs Have All Played A Part In Getting The Word Out

Los Angeles Times

Public Release Of SGV Council Of Governments Response To Caltrans Audit 30 To 45 Days Away

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Road Work To Halt During "Carmageddon": Caltrans Officials Hope The Stoppage Will Ease Traffic Flow. Metrolink Will Also Expand Its Service

Burbank Leader

Rosemead Boulevard In Temple City To Be Revamped In 2012

Pasadena Star-News

Weekend "No Stopping" Streets For 405 Closure

LA Observed

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