Amsterdam Proves Bikes And Streetcars Are Allies
Greater Greater Washington
"Apron Parking" Nears OK
Los Angeles Daily News
Are There Any New Ideas On Cities? (Should cities be seeking ways to re-purpose old infrastructure like New York City did with its High Line?)
American Society Of Landscape Architects' The Dirt Blog
A Bus Terminal, Overshadowed And Unmourned
New York Times
Business Praises Action On Senate Transport Plan
Journal Of Commerce
California Is Ignoring Its Decaying Roads
Sacramento Bee
Cars To Return To K Street In Downtown Sacramento On Saturday
Sacramento Bee
Colton: Officials Cheer Start Of Rail Crossing Construction
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Community Assessment Tool (59p. PDF)
Pedestrian And Bicycle Information Center
Commute Wire: Sunset Bridge Demo, Veterans Day Transit
Curbed LA
Crenshaw Subway Coalition Rallies Community In The "Battle For Crenshaw"
USC Annenberg Intersections South LA
Cut Out Buy Here, Pay Here Dealerships With Community Car Share
StreetsBlog LA
Do-It-Yourself Parking Bans In Malibu: The California Coastal Commission Fights A Losing Battle Against Homeowners Who Post Illegal "No Parking" Signs. Some Look So Official That Even Authorities Are Misled
Los Angeles Times
Editorial: Californians Still Willing To Pay? ("It has been three years since voters had a say on California's proposed high-speed rail system...So much has changed since then.")
San Bernardino Sun
Enhancement And Field Test Evaluation Of New Battery-Less Wireless Traffic Sensors (Link to full-text report)
University Of Minnesota Center For Transportation Studies
Field Testing And Evaluation Of A Wireless-Based Transit Signal Priority System (Link to full-text report)
University Of Minnesota Center For Transportation Studies
Full Reply To Metro Blog Post ("The Metropolitan Transit Authority's own taxpayer-funded blog site, "The Source," admitted the substance of The Courier's analysis of its tainted "fault study" that purports to conclude that only a tunnel under Beverly Hills High School allows a safe subway station in Century City. This articles contains The Courier's REPLY to Metro's responses.")
Beverly Hills Courier
High Speed Rail: Too Much, Too Late
Huffington Post
How Timed Traffic Signals Can Be Bad For Pedestrians
The Atlantic: Cities
Interns Could Benefit From Growing Metro
USC Daily Trojan
Is Laguna Niguel Plan The Next Urban Village?
Orange County Register
LA Union Station Shortlist Announced & The Notables That Missed The Cut
Architect's Newspaper
Metro Chooses Six Teams To Submit Master Plan Visions For Union Station
Blog Downtown
Metro Picks Architect Shortlist For Union Station Plan
Los Angeles Downtown News
MTA Concedes Fault Study Will Destroy Subway Ridership
Beverly Hills Courier
New Federal Fuel Rules Expected Soon, California Poised To Benefit ("Stricter fuel standards for cars and light trucks could bring tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars to the Golden State, one report says.")
KQED
More Jobs Per Gallon: How Strong Fuel Economy/GHG Standards Will Fuel American Jobs (embedded full-text document)
Ceres
Opinion: High-Speed Rail Backers Pulling A Fast One
Santa Monica Daily Press
Our "Grand Concourse": Historic Images Of Wilshire Boulevard's Double-Decker Buses & Other Forgotten History
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Regional Agencies Taking Slow Walk Towards Sustainable Funding
StreetsBlog LA
Restoration Of Historic Streetcar Services In Downtown Los Angeles: Alternatives Analysis Community Update Meeting (November 3 presentation : overview of 7 alternatives now being considered)
Metro via Scribd
Santa Monica's New Parks Bringing Fancy Streetlights, Raised Crosswalk, Public Art With Them
Curbed LA
Senate Committee Passes Highway Bill, Infrastructure Groups Split On Reactions
Transportation Nation
Senate Panel Gives Los Angeles Mayor's Transit Plan Bipartisan Boost ("A two-year, $109-billion transportation bill, approved by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee with unusual bipartisan speed, would increase funding for a federal loan program that is critical to the mayor's bid to build a dozen projects in 10 years instead of 30. Funding for the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act program would increase to $1 billion a year, up from the current $110 million.")
Los Angeles Times
Streetcar Project Full Steam Ahead: The Alignment Is Expected To Cost Between 100 And 125 Million Dollars
NBC Los Angeles
This Is How We Rolled (The real story behind the rise and fall of the Expo Line's predecessors which linked downtown with the coast : "Although the Westside’s first mass rail project in 50 years feels in some ways like the dawn of an era, Los Angeles has been down this road before. In fact, it has been down the same set of train tracks: The Expo Line will run on a historic railroad right-of-way that has carried Southern Californians, off and on, for more than 135 years now, first behind steam engines and then in iconic Red Cars.")
Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles County Supervisor, Third District
Transit Civil Rights And Economic Survival In Los Angeles: A Case For Federal Intervention In LA Metro (26p. PDF)
Labor/Community Strategy Center
Transportation Ballot Measures Mixed In 2011 Election
Reconnecting America
U.S. Department Of Transportation Announces Nearly $35 Million To Improve Transportation Choices And Job Access For Military Families
U.S. DOT Press Release
Villaraigosa Cheers Senate Committee Approval Of Transit Funding Bill
Daily Breeze
Villaraigosa Wants To Borrow Future Tax Money To Fix L.A. Streets: Over About Two Years, The Plan Would Spend Up To $800 Million To Repair Nearly A Fourth Of City Roads Using 27 Years Of Proceeds From Measure R, A Half-Cent Sales Tax Passed By County Voters
Los Angeles Times
Want To Sell Voters On Transit? Keep It Simple
StreetsBlog Network
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