Appeals Court To Hear Arguments On Clean Trucks Program
Daily Breeze
BART Board To Study Late-Night Service And How It Affects Early Morning Riders
Transportation Nation
Bike On Rail Restrictions Lifted! Effective Immediately!
Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition
Building Coalitions Around Health, Equity And Transportation
StreetsBlog LA
Chasing The Elusive New Transit Rider, Missing The Bus? ("New ridership is the holy grail of many a transit planner. It’s a demographic with strong allure — catch a newbie and you potentially remove a car from congested streets, give the environment a boost and, of course, increase revenue.")
StreetsBlog Network
Crenshaw Subway Decision Punted, Times Says No To Undergrounding
Curbed LA
Freeway Bridge Demolition Set
Inland Valley Daily News
High Gas Prices Are Fueling Demand For Broader Transportation Options
Transportation For America
Highlights From The Metro Board: Crenshaw Grade Separation, Bikes On Trains, Bus Cuts
StreetsBlog LA
Leading Thinkers In Urban Planning & Technology (The 25 leading thinkers and innovators "at the intersection of urban planning and technology. The opening of government data has been a major catalyst, as well as the crowdsourcing, mapping and social networking opportunities afforded by the expanding capabilities of the Internet.")
Planetizen
Legislation To Kill Air Resources Board Rejected In Assembly
Sacramento Bee
Los Angeles Fire Department Historical Society's Photostream (new collection of visually arresting aerial photos of downtown from the 1991 Convention Center expansion)
LAFDHS via Flickr
Los Angeles Is 88 Cities, Many Of Them Corrupt ("If you're intending to visit, I'd suggest driving or biking, because every time someone has tried to explain the various bus systems that connect them, and the rules for transferring among them, I've experienced that same feeling I had in the class that convinced me to stop taking math.")
The Atlantic
Making The Green Line Green...For Jobs, Environment And Community
CityWatch
Mayor Villaraigosa In Chicago For City Design Summit ("Villaraigosa will speak on the "new Los Angeles" and its enhanced urban design at the summit, where mayors will "discuss ways to make cities smart and sustainable, even in the midst of unprecedented budget difficulties.")
Los Angeles Daily News
MTA Board To Study Speeding Up Rail Service To Downtown L.A. ("The MTA Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve studying the Metrolink Antelope Valley Line Infrastructure Improvement Strategic Plan introduced by Los Angeles County Mayor and MTA 2nd Vice Chairman Michael D. Antonovich.")
Santa Clarita Valley Signal
New Tech Helps You Avoid Traffic And Find Parking
Infrastructurist
No Help For Workers On High Gas Prices
Orange County Register
Transit Mall Turned Gallery
Long Beach Gazettes
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Announces $100 Million For California To Purchase American-Made Rail Cars And Locomotives
U.S. DOT Press Release
USC AGC Holds Sustainabiilty In Transportation Symposium ("LA Metro’s Art Leahy received the 2011 USC Visionary Award...[and] stole the show by playing his cell phone ring tone of the USC fight song and telling all the students to “hang in there” because all the “boomers will retire soon and will leave plenty of opportunities.")
Green Growth Cascadia
Will Wilshire Bus-Only Lanes Get More Angelenos Riding Metro?
Southern California Public Radio
Work Begins On I-5 Carpool Lane
Los Angeles Daily News
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A.B. 710 Sails Through Committee, No Date Yet For Full Assembly Hearing (Infill Development And Sustainable Community Act Of 2011)
StreetsBlog LA
America's Mayors Call For Metropolitan-Focused Transportation Investments
PR Newswire
Amtrak Seeking Florida's Rail Funds ("Amtrak, previously blocked from receiving federal money for high-speed rail, is now in the running for a big chunk of the $2 billion in funds freed up by Florida's decision to cancel a fast-train project earlier this year.")
Wall Street Journal
Bike Plan Projects Heading Off To Environmental Review
StreetsBlog LA
Can Freight Railroads Be Brought On Board In The Development Of High Speed Rail
Rail Planning
City Property Tax Collection Is Falling ("At our next board meeting [scheduled for May 5] we will vote to move between $230,00 and $300,000 from the general fund to Measure E for spending on the MTA fight.")
Beverly Hills Patch
Civic Affairs And The Culture Of City Planning (May 3 : "An open roundtable to discuss methods of building civic outreach and strengthening the culture of city planning in Los Angeles" featuring Alan Bell, Deputy Directory, Department of City Planning, City of Los Angeles; Honorable Ed P. Reyes, Councilmember, District #1, City of Los Angeles; Bill Roschen, President, Los Angeles City Planning Commission)
AIA Los Angeles
Complete Streets Policies Growing Strong
National Complete Streets Coalition
Complete Streets Policy Analysis 2010: A Story Of Growing Strength (52p. PDF)
National Complete Streets Coalition
Editorial: Keep MTA's Crenshaw/LAX Project On Track: Mark Ridley-Thomas' Proposal For The Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Means Well But Is Ill-Conceived
Los Angeles Times
Editorial: Rail Line Must Go Underground To Preserve, Protect Key Black L.A. Business CorridorLos Angeles Wave
Evaluation Of Pedestrian And Bicycle Engineering Countermeasures: Rectangular Rapid-Flashing Beacons, HAWKs, Sharrows, Crosswalk Markings, And The Development Of an Evaluation Methods Report (70p. PDF)
Federal Highway Administration
Fast Train Hits Snags In Silicon Valley: Atherton, Menlo Park And Palo Alto Say High-Speed Rail Will Hurt Property Values; "We Just Hope The Project Dies"
Wall Street Journal
Jumpstarting The Transit Space Race, Transit Climate Action Strategy & The Next 50 Years
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Just How Bad Is L.A. Air? The Worst
Los Angeles Daily News
Metro Library Becomes Part Of Transportation History In Contribution To The Henry Ford Museum Exhibit
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
New Life For Fred Harvey Space At Union Station
LA Observed
New Report: Higher Gas Prices Mean Less Sprawl
Infrastructurist
Gas Prices Variations And Urban Sprawl: An Empirical Analysis Of The 12 Largest Canadian Metropolitan Areas (29p. PDF)
CIRANO
Parking Garage Proposed For La Verne Station ("A five- or six-story proposed parking garage capable of holding 600 cars would be built if the Metro Gold Line train line is extended to La Verne.")
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Research Bolsters Case For Cycle Tracks While AASHTO Updates Guide
StreetsBlog DC
SFMTA's Climate Action Strategy Will Require Broad Political Support
StreetsBlog SF
2011 Climate Action Strategy For San Francisco's Transportation System: Draft (48p. PDF)
SFMTA
Shifting Our Taxpayer $$$ From Oil To Efficient Transportation And Technology
Natural Resources Defense Council Switchboard Blog
To Get Safer Streets, Traffic Lights And Stop Signs Aren't The Answer
StreetsBlog
Union Station's Fred Harvey To Finally Get A Permanent Restaurant Tenant?
Franklin Avenue
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7th Street First To Get Bike Lanes Under New City Plan
LAist
7th Street To Get A Bicycle-Friendly Makeover
Southern California Public Radio
$15 Million In Parking Ticket Revenue Eludes Los Angeles, Audit Finds: A New Los Angeles Audit Focusing On Chronic Scofflaws Finds The Parking Enforcement Department Is Still Missing Out On Revenue Collection
Los Angeles Times
83 Years Ago: City Hall Shines At Dedication (includes historic photos)
Blog Downtown
As Amtrak Turns 40, "America's Railroad" Continues To "Go Green" ("In the United States, passenger rail travel is 20% more efficient than airline travel and 30% more efficient than automobile travel.")
Suite 101
Calif. Highways Could Be Source Of Green Energy ("A bill for a pilot program that will harness road vibration and convert it to energy passed 6-1 in the California State Assembly's Natural Resources Committee yesterday. It will move to the Assembly Transportation Committee for voting next week.")
CNET
City, Caltrans, Seek Feedback On North Spring Street Bridge Widening
StreetsBlog LA
City's Transportation Director Set To Retire ("Stephanie Negriff announced her decision to retire in October 2011 from her position as the Director of Transit Services for the City’s Big Blue Bus. Negriff has spent 25 years in transit service with 10 years as the BBB Director.")
Santa Monica Mirror
Conceptual Renderings Show Broad Museum Plaza, Related Cos' New Buildings
Curbed LA
Gas Prices: Californians Are Mad As Hell But Still Driving
TIME
Gas Prices Changing Some Inland Commutes
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Gas Prices Could Reach $4.25 Nationally By Memorial Day
Los Angeles Times
Gold Line Ridership Up In Wake Of $4 Gas
Pasadena Star-News
A Historical Look At Subsidizing Railroads: The Obama Administration Will Invest A Large Sum Of Cash Into High Speed Rails. Historically, How Have Railroad Investments Impacted The US Economy?
Christian Science Monitor
How The Bicycle Economy Can Help Us Beat The Energy Crisis
Grist
Improving Mobility For Veterans (96p. PDF)
Transit Cooperative Research Program Research Results Digest
L.A., Bakersfield Remain Among U.S.'s Most Polluted Cities, Report Says: American Lung Assn. Says Smog And Soot Levels Dropped Significantly In Southern California Over The Last Decade, But The L.A. Area Remains The Worst Region In The Nation For Ozone Pollution
Los Angeles Times
Long Beach Transit Offering Live Bus Tracking By Phone
Long Beach Post
Metro Board Preview: Crenshaw Subway, Bikes On Trains, Active Transportation, Service Changes
StreetsBlog LA
Metro Tests: Geotechnical Testing Coming On The Regional Connector
Los Angeles Downtown News
Metrolink Express Trains: Fast But Watch Out
NBC Los Angeles
National Maritime Security Training Center Opens At Port Of LA
Security Management
Petersen Automotive Museum Gets $100 Million In Buildings, Cash And Cars From Founders Widow
Los Angeles Times
Rosendahl To MTA: No Bus Lanes On Our Boulevard: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority Moved The Process Forward With The Routine Release Of A Report Friday
Brentwood Patch
San Francisco's Real-Time Smart Parking System Is Up And Running
GOOD
Demand-Based "Smart Parking": Watch How It Works
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Seven Things To Know About The City's Proposed New Parking Ordinance
CityWatch
Time To Restore South Pasadena's 710 Freeway Veto Right
California Streets
Transportation Planning, Policy And Climate Change: Making The Long-Term Connection (62p. PDF)
Texas Transportation Institute
Villaraigosa Teams With Homeland Security To Introduce "If You See Something, Say Something" Anti-Terrorist Campaign At Port
Los Angeles Daily News
With Caltrain Back On Track, Long-Term Funding Puzzle Still Plagues Commuter Line
Silicon Valley Mercury News
5 R's For Optimizing Digital Transportation Signage
Mass Transit
AAA Reports 18% Increase in Motorists Running Out Of Gas
TreeHugger
Airport Prepares Legal Battle Against Railroad: Bob Hope Officials Are Looking To Buy Union Pacific Land To Use For Parking
Glendale News-Press
Arctic Whisperer, World's First Quick-Charge Bus ("Electric buses are awesome...but unless you’re stringing overhead lines all over the place, the range sucks. A Spanish firm has found a clever solution to that problem and is testing it.")
Wired
Basics: Walking Distance To Transit
Human Transit
Bicycle-Based Commerce Continues Growth
Pattern Cities
Bicycling Access And Egress To Transit: Informing The Possibilities (144p. PDF)
Mineta Transportation Institute
Bundy And Santa Monica, Tear Down This Fence ("If we want more discretionary Metro riders, what better place to find them than in west LA? Currently, the nearest Metro office selling TAP cards is at Wilshire and La Brea. The Bundy Park kiosk would also be a great way to educate West LA residents about critical projects like the subway extension, Expo to Santa Monica and the Wilshire BRT.")
Huffington Post
Businesses Hear Benefits Of Proposed Valley Connector Route: Plan Would Boost Shipping, Efforts To Create Commercial Airport (High Desert Corridor)
San Fernando Valley Business Journal
Call It MLB Stadium At Chavez Ravine (Columnist Bill Boyarsky discusses how simple it is to take public transit and the Dodger Express to the Stadium)
LA Observed
Ecoliner Battery-Electric Bus (photos of Foothill Transit's new prototype electric buses)
LA Visions
Editorial: Have We Outgrown Earth Day?
Los Angeles Daily News
Examining Long-Distance Express Buses As An Extension Of And Feeder To Passenger Rail Systems (86p. PDF)
Texas Transportation Institute
Here Comes The Bus: America's Fastest Growing Form Of Intercity Travel
New Geography
Implementing Race-Neutral Measures In State Disadvantages Business Enterprise Programs (96p. PDF)
National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Mining The Gold Line (slow-motion video essay)
Blogging Los Angeles
MTA Releases BRT EIR And Brentwood Is All "Huh?"
Brentwood Patch
The Next Fifty Years: Addressing California's Mobility In A Time Of Financial Challenges (40p. PDF)
Mineta Transportation Institute
Nobody Will Take Mass Transit To Work Unless You Build Tall Buildings Near The Stations (several comments discuss L.A. transit projects in detail)
Think Progress
The Nostalgia Trap: In Brooklyn And London, The Future Is Losing To The Past (When is historic preservation just misplaced nostalgia?)
The Atlantic
NTSB To Discuss Impact Of Fatigue On Transportation
The Hill
On Earth Day 2011, Much To Appreciate And Much Work Ahead
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
On Eve Of Tragedy Anniversary, TriMet Launches "Safety Dashboard"
Oregonian
Opinion: High-Speed Rail Hopes Are Off The Tracks: Federal Funds Are Drying Up For California's Project, And That's A Good Thing
Los Angeles Times
Port Of Long Beach Awards $5 Million In Health Grants
Occupational Health & Safety
Raising Revenues Through Bus Advertisements
The City Fix
Ride The Red Cars To Glendale (May 12 : Free lecture/slideshow : "Historian Paul Ayers presents a slideshow on the Glendale Pacific Electric line from its beginning to the last day of service, June 19, 1955. Featured are over 240 images including color photographs and current views of the route...Get a Glendale Library card featuring the last Red Car train. A limited number will be available at the event.")
City Of Glendale Public Library
A Royal Event For The Expo Line
Huffington Post
San Bernardino-L.A. Commuter Rail Line To Get Six New Trains In May Including Express Route
Redlands Daily Facts
Second Chance For One Santa Fe: A $150 Million Arts District Project Returns ("Under a 65-year ground lease with Metro, which owns the land, the developers would build a project consisting of a six-story building with 438 housing units, 78,000 square feet of retail and commercial space, including a 15,000-square-foot grocery store, and a 3,000-square-foot space to be used rent-free by one or more community organizations that are involved with the arts. It would also include a 47,400-square-foot plaza and 802 parking spaces.")
Los Angeles Downtown News
Second National Port Summit Keeps Maritime Freight Conversation Moving Forward
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
To Remove A Freeway In Long Beach: By The Numbers (follow-up to an article from last July)
Long Beach Post
Transportation Committee Passes Through 710-Oriented Bill: A.B. 353 Would Repeal A Provision That Prevents South Pasadena From Having The Power To Veto The Building Of A Freeway In The City
Highland Park-Mount Washington Patch
Why The City Remains So Dysfunctional Even As It Plans For The Future
CityWatch
Will The Expo Line Really Help Solve Santa Monica's Traffic Woes?: As The Project Takes Another Step Toward Completion, Some Have Their Doubts About Its Potential Impact On Reducing Traffic Congestion
Santa Monica Patch
Without Adequate Funding, Will States Raise Their Own Gas Taxes?
StreetsBlog DC
50 Years Ago, This Chick Promoted Easter Shopping Via Public Transit
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
2011 [N.Y.] MTA Earth Day Sustainability Report: More MTA = Less CO2 (14p. PDF)
New York MTA
Amtrak To Feature The Great (Black) Migration Exhibit During National Train Day In Philadelphia ("The movement, which peaked in the 1930s, was a key moment in the nationalization of the African American population.")
Afro.com
BART Wants Riders' Input On Styles For New Seats
San Francisco Chronicle
Big Cities' Population Boom Slows To A Trickle, Census Data Show: Some Of California's Largest Cities, Including Los Angeles, Long Beach And San Diego, Saw Their Population Plateau Or Even Decline From 2000 To 2010, Ending A Decades-Long Trend Of Expansion
Los Angeles Times
Bill Seeking New Ridership Study Is Latest NIMBY Attempt To Derail HSR
California Streets
City Council Rejects Metrolink Parking Structure Design
Orange County Register
Coalition Urges Congress To Support Smart Technologies In Reauthorization Bill
AASHTO Journal
Efforts To Block 710 Freeway Expansion Face Crucial Test Monday: A Bill To Go Before The California Assembly Committee Monday Seeks To Allow The City Of South Pasadena To Regain Veto Power Over The 710's Extension
La Canada Flintridge Patch
A Green Future: Zero Emissions Envisioned In L.A., Long Beach Ports
Pasadena Star News
"Green Line To LAX": What Does It Mean?
CityWatch
Improving The Transportation Experience With Transit Apps
American Public Media Marketplace
Introducing "What Moves U"! ("What Moves U?" is a campaign inviting the UCLA community to share moving, funny and interesting stories from their alternative transportation commute. The purpose of the campaign is to grow and connect green commuters while continuing to build a supportive network.")
UCLA Be A Green Commuter!
Long Beach Cyclists Welcome Bikeway
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Lost On Purpose In Old Downtown: A 1930s Guidebook Gives Glimpses Of The Past And A New View Of The Present
Los Angeles Downtown News
Major Funding Earmarked For Mass Transit
NBC San Diego
Metro To Begin Tests For "Regional Connector" Downtown
CBS Los Angeles
MTA To Vote On The Fate Of The Crenshaw Line Subway & Leimert Park Village Station Next Thursday
Inglewood Today
Proposed Highway In The High Desert Could Include High Speed Rail
KCET
Reading L.A.: A Reyner Banham Classic Turns 40 ("Among the few volumes to grasp the city in all its urban and architectural complexity.")
Los Angeles Times
Redevelopment: California's Secret Government
CityWatch
So Where Are We On The Wilshire Bus Lane? Latest Proposal Now Out
Curbed LA
Transit Fleets Come Clean As Alternative-Fuel Technology Comes Of Age (LA Metro is featured)
Metro Magazine
Web-Based Telematics Move Beyond Dispensing Data
Metro Magazine
Wilshire BRT Update: Removing Brentwood And Condo Canyon Reduces Effectiveness By 40%
StreetsBlog LA
