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Buses For Planes Would Save $89 Million In Subsidized Cities

Bloomberg

CalPERS Plans $800 Million Investment In California Infrastructure

Sacramento Bee

City Agency Chugs Along To Bring Free Wi-Fi To Gold Line ("In a slow-moving project to bring high-speed Wi-Fi to Gold Line train passengers, the board of the Community Redevelopment Agency on Thursday is scheduled to inch forward on a $1 million free wireless Internet project intended to boost ridership.")

Eastsider LA

Coburn Blocks Quick Senate Vote On Transportation Extension

StreetsBlog DC

Designing A Cleaner Commute In The Bay Area ("What can data do for your daily commute? A team of energy policy consultants and software developers met in San Francisco to brainstorm how data sets could be used to make the typical urban commute shorter and greener. They participated in a high-speed coding competition last weekend called theCleanweb Hackathon" which gives participants 24 hours to develop apps from scratch)

New York Times

How Dangerous Is Sen. Coburn's Amendment To Kill Bike/Ped Funding?

StreetsBlog DC

In The Public Interest: Americans Are Driving Less. Washington Should Pay Attention

Huffington Post

Is O.C. Ready For A Bike-Sharing Program?: The Plan Is To Install Eight Stations Carrying 80 Bikes Close To Metrolink Stations, Transit Hubs, Colleges And Employment Centers

Orange County Register

Korbatov Accuses Brucker And Brien Of Holding Clandestine Subway Meetings (p.5 of 20p. PDF)

Beverly Hills Weekly

LA Working On Ditching One Size Fits All Parking Requirements

Curbed LA

New Parking Plan Positive For Small Businesses...But What About The Residents?

Southern California Public Radio

Lawsuit: Not So Fast, Expo Light Rail Line Construction

Santa Monica Daily Press

Looking To Root Out Transportation Waste? Try Highways To Nowhere

StreetsBlog Network

Mica's Love-Hate Relationship With Infrastructure Finance

Transportation Nation

Moving Intercity Passenger Rail Into The Future (video)

U.S. Senate Committee On Commerce, Science, & Transportation

NFL Football Is Bad For You And Your Neighborhood ("SB 375 - signed into law in 2008 - already contains triggers for exempting multi-family residential projects from CEQA review if their greater density is assumed to reduce driving and expand public transit use. Under SB 375, some projects designed to increase neighborhood density could be built even when opposed by city council members. Regional and state planning agencies will determine what gets built and where.")

KCET

Oh, SNAP! TAP Fare Turnstiles Will Be Locked Soon At Some Metro Stations

LAist

Open Payment Systems To Ease Transit Commuting

The City Fix

Planned Merger Of Two Agencies Hits Legal Hurdle ("The planned merger of the Ventura County Transportation Commission and the Ventura Council of Governments has hit a legal snag that both agencies are scrambling to resolve.")

Ventura County Star

PLUM Also Moves "Modified Parking Requirement (MPR) District" Ordinance

StreetsBlog LA

Q&A With Measure R Oversight Committee Advisory Panel Member Gary Painter

StreetsBlog LA

A Review Of Human Services Transportation Plans And Grant Programs (62p. PDF)

National Cooperative Highway Research Program

Should Federal Bike-Ped Funding Be Mandatory Or Optional?

Transportation Issues Daily

Single Senator Holding Up Transpo Funding Deal

Transportation Nation

States Struggle For Financing To Meet Infrastructure Needs

Associated Press

Strategies For Reducing Pedestrian And Bicycle Injury At The Corridor Level: Final Technical Report (74p. PDF)

Caltrans

Technology Partnerships Project To Test Solar-Powered Traffic Signs (p. 3 of 8p. PDF)

Federal Highway Administration Innovator

Transportation Energy Data Book, 30th Edition (414p. PDF)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Center For Transportation Analysis

Yes, Amtrak Can Be Saved As Long As Republican Proposals Fail

StreetsBlog DC

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