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Bikeways Planning Begins For North Figueroa
Highland Park-Mount Washington Patch

Bill Would Aid San Gabriel Valley Light-Rail Project Officials: Proposed State Legislation Would Exempt Five Board Members And Two Alternates Of The Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority From State Conflict-Of-Interest Laws. The Officials Have Been Accused Of Holding Incompatible Offices

Los Angeles Times

CicLAvia Expands Downtown Borders
Los Angeles Downtown News

Commentary: Transit For The System, Not For The Passengers

KCET

Congress Will Need To Address Transportation Legislation, Gas Tax After Recess

National League Of Cities

Data Visualization Student Challenge ("Do you have what it takes to apply data visualization for transportation investment or policy decisions? The United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) wants to see what you can do!")

Challenge.gov

DOT Pays $208 Million In Stimulus In Latest Week

Journal Of Commerce

Editorial: Water Trumps Rail ("A bullet train, by contrast, represents no essential public need, and Brown should rethink his advocacy of the project.")

Riverside Press-Enterprise

Failing The 21st Century (response to editorial)

California High Speed Rail Blog

How Significant An Opportunity For Reducing U.S. Construction Costs?

Transport Politic

Infrastructure: A Jobs Program For The Next Decade
Yahoo Finance

Introducing GTFS-Realtime To Exchange Realtime Transit Updates (The General Transit Feed Specification was launched in June for Live Transit Updates. Now it is available to the public for app development -- including trip updates, service alerts and vehicle position)

Google Code Blog

Long Beach's Leap Towards Livability IV: Leaping Forward?
StreetsBlog LA
Principles For Active Living And Complete Streets: For Long Beach General Plan Update -- Long Beach 2030 (20p. PDF)
City Of Long Beach

Mapping The Urban Places Where No Transit Goes ("Living in a city can be easy without a car: Just take the bus or train. But there are people who aren't served by public transit, and who don't have a car, creating islands of stranded people in cities across the country.")

Fast Company

Montebello Bus Lines Celebrates Eight Decades Of Service

Mass Transit

Mulholland Bridge Traffic Over 405 To Worsen With Beginning Of School Year, Officials Warn

Contra Costa Times

New Graffiti-Resistant Hollywood (101) Freeway Murals Not Theft-Resistant ("Just before Caltrans was to unveil the vandal-resistant replicas designed by four freeway artists on Monday, a drive-by burglar boosted two of them.")

Daily Breeze

No Gas Tax Extension Fight -- For Now

Transportation Issues Daily

One Billion Vehicles Hit The Road -- Are We Ready For Two Billion?

Washington Post

Reader Q & A: Deputy Mayor Borja Leon Responds (Questions include " If you could change one thing about transportation in Los Angeles with the wave of a magic wand, what would it be?")

StreetsBlog LA

Southern California Transportation Plan Used For Funding, Carbon Reduction

Southern California Public Radio

USDOT Unveils Catalysts For The Future: The Digital Transportation Exchange ("The Digital Transportation Exchange (DTE) would connect citizens, businesses, state and local governments, industry, entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors though a public private partnership like never before—creating a thriving online marketplace for the agile creation of transportation solutions.")

Young Professionals In Transportation Blog

Webinar To Discuss Transit Corridors For Sustainable Communities (today)

Reconnecting America

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