1959 Film From ULI And National Association Of Homebuilders Warns Of Urban Sprawl (video)
ULI via YouTube
Another Optional Station "Approved" By The Metro Board For Crenshaw Line
StreetsBlog LA
Are We Over High Speed Rail In California?
Southern California Public Radio
Board Approves 3 Month Extension For Venable ("The BHUSD Board of Education continues to keep its arsenal full against the Metro Westside Subway Extension tunnel under Beverly High.")
Beverly Hills Courier
Both Sides Of Pomona Freeway Reopen
NBC Los Angeles
BRU To Metro: Let Public In On Civil Rights Remedies
StreetsBlog LA
Can Americans Make The Switch From Driving To Biking To Work?
Infrastructurist
The Case For Business Investment In Public Transportation (9p. PDF)
APTA
Congressional Transportation Committee Debates CA High Speed Rail
Planetizen
Even In Austere Era, Mitt Romney Promises To Fund Roads, Bridges, And Rail ("Mitt Romney says he doesn’t like borrowing, but he’d do it for infrastructure.")
Transportation Nation
A Fatal Bullet For The California Bullet Train?
CityWatch
Federal Transportation Bill Moves 2 Steps Forward And 1 Step Back In 2011
Transportation Issues Daily
GOP Lawmakers Critical Of Calif. Rail Proposal
Business Week
Griffith Park Turns 115, First Street Bridge Reopening
Curbed LA
Indy To Repurpose Stadium Seats At Bus Stops
Urbanophile
It's Politics: High-Speed Rail Battle Continues
Pasadena Star-News
LA County Unemployment Drops: November Marked The Lowest Jobless Rate In The Southland In Two Years
NBC Los Angeles
A Little Older, A Little Wider, First Street Viaduct Opens
Blog Downtown
Long Beach Transit Offers Free Transportation New Year's Eve
Everything Long Beach
A Measure Of Bicycling Impact On Your Community: Media Attention And Business Generation
Bikeable Communities ("The January 2012 issue of Sunset Magazine, Western America’s largest-circulation regional magazine (more than 1 million subscribers), highlighted Long Beach’s East Village and touted it as a “bike to” destination.”)
Southern California Weekend
Sunset
Mobility 21 Touts $37 Million Funding Award For So Cal Transportation: Riverside County Transportation Commission and Port Of Long Beach Receive Competitive Federal Funding
MarketWatch
Nancy Pelosi: California High-Speed Rail Is On Track
The State Column
The New California Dream: How Demographic And Economic Trends May Shape The Housing Market -- A Land Use Scenario For 2020 And 2035 (73p. PDF : "Housing and neighborhood preference surveys indicate that Californians consider transit options to be far more important in choosing a location in which to live than the rest of the nation: 71 percent in California, compared with 47 percent nationally.")
Urban Land Institute
New Federal "TIGER" Transportation Grants Direct Some Funding To Green Infrastructure Projects, But More Investment Is Needed
Natural Resources Defense Fund Switchboard Blog
New Mexico City Buses Cut Pollution, Generate Cash ("Mexico City's sleek new public bus system is attracting significant international funding in carbon credit sales.")
Reuters
NJ Senator Lautenberg Introduces Bill To Limit Bridge And Tunnel Tolls
StreetsBlog DC
NYC's Top 2011 Google Searches (The top 3 searches are all transit-related)
Huffington Post
Paint Coming Off Green Bike Lane Again
Los Angeles Downtown News
Port Of Los Angeles Gets $17 Million To Speed Trains
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Republican Leaders Seek To Apply Brakes To Bullet Train Project
Los Angeles Times
Santa Monica City Council Approves Development With No Parking ("Under a unique Development Agreement, the Santa Monica City Council voted Tuesday to require the developer of a [56-unit] Downtown housing project that provides no on-site parking to pay $125,000 for transit improvements"..."“We are agreeing to give priority to people without cars”)
Santa Monica Lookout
Transit Flexibility Bill Introduced By Senator Brown Is Badly Needed In Many Cities
Transportation For America
Two Month Drilling Study Begins On BHHS Campus: In An Effort To Stop Metro From Approving A Subway Route That Goes Under The High School, BHUSD Has Hired A Firm To Determine If Faults Under The Campus Are Active
Beverly Hills Patch
Westside Subway Extension Feud: Did Metro Rig A Century City Fault Study To Move The Purple Line?
LA Weekly
Whittier Officials Consider Hiring A Lobbyist To Fight For Light-Rail Line To The City
Whittier Daily News
Will Americans Be Stranded? Inadequate Or Poorly Maintained Transportation: A Looming Crisis
Renew America
Zurich, The World's Best Transit City
Planetizen
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