LA's Public Transit Tops List, Gold Line Art, Widening The 5, Beverly Hills Subway, Baldwin Park's Complete Streets,

Amtrak's "Great Migration" Exhibit Follows Southern Blacks' Journey To North

Washington Post

Baldwin Park Recognized For Strongest "Complete Streets" Policy In The Nation

MarketWire

Battle Over L.A. Bus Bench Contract Gets Messy: The City Council Is Considering Replacing The Company That Has Maintained More Than 5,000 City Bus Benches Since 2000. Foes Of The Move Have Raised Conflict-Of-Interest And Other Concerns

Los Angeles Times

Beverly Hills Mayor Urges Santa Monica Boulevard Subway Route In Letter To MTA Board: On Behalf Of The Beverly Hills City Council, Barry Brucker Advocates For A Westside Subway Extension Alignment That Avoids Tunneling Under BHHS

Westwood-Century City Patch

Beverly Hills Unifies In Fight Against Subway Route: City Council Members Join The Board Of Education In Predicating Support For The Westside Subway Extension On Choosing The Santa Monica Boulevard Alignment

Beverly Hills Patch

Bus Rapid Transit: Chicago's New Route To Opportunity: Study Report (28p. PDF)

Metropolitan Planning Council

Caltrans Outlines Specific Plans For Santa Ana Freeway Widening

Los Angeles Wave

Council, City Staff Discuss Status Of Westside Subway Extension: Council And Staff Members Update The Public On What They've Done Since June To Advocate Against Tunneling Under Beverly Hills High School

Beverly Hills Patch

Do Line Numbers Matter At All?
Human Transit

Editorial: Safety Upgrade A Positive Step For Commuters

Ventura County Star

Equity Of Evolving Transportation Finance Mechanisms (142p. PDF : Addresses the equity of alternatives to current transportation finance mechanisms, notably mechanisms based on tolling and road use metering, i.e. road pricing)
U.S. Transportation Research Board Special Report

It's Official: We Now Have One Billion Vehicles On The Planet

Talking Points Memo

L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky To Beverly Hills: "If You Disagree, Sue Us"

Beverly Hills Courier

Lighter Than Air: SoCal Ballooning In Photos ("The images that follow document a small part of aviation-ballooning history in the Los Angeles region throughout the last 100 years.")

LA as Subject via KCET

Long Beach's Leap Towards Livability Part III
StreetsBlog LA

Los Angeles Public Transit Access Top Among Major Metropolitan Areas, Besting Even New York
Huffington Post
Transit Access And Zero-Vehicle Households (14p. PDF)
Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program

One More Push Can Preserve Federal Safe Routes To School Funding
StreetsBlog DC

PB To Design L.A.'s Expo Light Rail Line

Metro Magazine

Pollutant Levels Fall At Port For 5th Straight Year

Daily Breeze

Pomona Opens Long-Awaited Mission Boulevard Bridge, Ending Decades-Long Bottleneck At 71 Freeway

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

Put Your Money Where Your Miles Are ("Though no country appears to be ready to adopt a VMT tax on a nationwide level, all signs indicate that we'll be paying such a levy someday soon. With the gas tax (hopefully) on its way to obsolescence, we'll need a new way to repair our roads and bridges. When done right, a VMT tax scheme could not only give our infrastructure funding a boost, it could also get us out from behind the wheel a bit more.")

Grist

The Role Of Public Art, Part One and Part Two (video : the importance of, and rationale behind, public art along the Metro Gold Line. Includes overviews of individual art installations and interviews with the artists who created them.)

Goldlineblogger via YouTube

Seattle, After Decade Of Debate, Approves Tunnel

New York Times

Should We Tax, Borrow, Or Spend To Build Infrastructure?

Washington Post

Transit Options Dwindle As 700,000 Americans Live In Households Without Cars (and without access to transit)

Transportation Nation

U.S. Carbon Emissions Up Nearly 4% In 2010

CNET

What's Troubling Megabus Haters?

StreetsBlog Network

Zev Zings Critics (p.6 of 20p. PDF)

Beverly Hills Weekly

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LAX & Transit, Beverly Hills, Metrolink Bikes, LA Transportation Headlines, Sustainable Transpo, California Highway Grants & More

5 Years, 2,000 Posts & 1 Million Emails Later: The Top 5 Reasons You Should Be Following The Los Angeles Transportation Headlines

Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog

Box: Metrolink Passes Bike Friendly Test
StreetsBlog LA

Can Suburbs Be Designed To Do Away With The Car?: The Public-Transit Goals Of "New Urbanism" Can Fail If Residents Don't Foresee True Travel Benefits

Scientific American

City Continues Slow Growth Model For Car Share

StreetsBlog LA

Commentary: Making Parking Pay
KCET

EPA Publishes Guide To Performance Measures For Livability

StreetsBlog DC

Guide To Sustainable Transportation Performance Measures (58p. PDF)

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Feasibility Of A Consolidated Security Credential For Persons Who Transport Hazardous Materials (87p. PDF)

U.S. Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program

The Future Of LAX: How World Class Cities Connect Airports To Transit

Huffington Post

Janette Sadik-Khan, New York City Transportation Commissioner: An Urban Visionary Who Cuts Through The Gridlock
Slate
Bridge-And-Tunnel Vision: New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan Describes Her Vision For The City's Future
Slate

Jerry Brown Calls For High Speed Rail To Move Forward

Fresno Bee

L.A. Bike Plan Troubles

LA Weekly

Long Beach Transit Route, Schedule Changes To Take Effect August 28

Long Beach Post

Long Before Freeways ("Four years in the works, [Wilmington's Banning Residence Museum's] new "Improbable Gateway: The Los Angeles Transportation Legacy" exhibit will open...The exhibit also chronicles the age of the railroad, L.A.'s Red Cars and the construction of the modern Port of Los Angeles.")

Daily Breeze

Long Beach: Good For Bikes, Good For Business

StreetsBlog LA

Los Angeles Witnesses Spike In Light Rail Ridership

Examiner

Mayor Urges Santa Monica Boulevard Subway Route In Letter To MTA Board: On Behalf Of The City Council, Barry Brucker Advocates For A Westside Subway Extension Alignment That Avoids Tunneling Under BHHS

Beverly Hills Patch

Metro Pursues Public Opinion On Improving Public Transit To LAX

LAist

Metrolink Gets $46 Million For Rail-Braking System

Los Angeles Times

Metrolink To Install New Safety Technology To Control Trains

Ventura County Star

New Data Show How Transit Corridors Reduce Traffic, Increase Walking

Natural Resources Defense Council Switchboard Blog

Opinion: The End Of The Road For Motormania ("Something unexpected is happening to our car-crazy culture. What are the forces driving us out of motoring?")
New Scientist

Parsons Brinckerhoff To Design L.A. Light-Rail Line's Second Phase

Progressive Railroading

Recession Forcing Cutbacks At Nearly 80 Percent Of U.S. Transit Agencies

StreetsBlog DC

Impacts Of The Recession On Public Transportation Agencies: 2011 Update Survey Results (9p. PDF)

APTA

Senior Travelers' Trip Chaining Behavior: Survey Results And Data Analysis (105p. PDF)

Illinois Center For Transportation

Sharon D. Banks Award For Humanitarian Leadership In Transportation (TRB is seeking nominations)

U.S. Transportation Research Board

Statement On Subway Portals

Beverly Hills Chamber Of Commerce

U.S. Transporation Secretary Ray LaHood Announces $29.6 Million In Grants For California Highway Projects
Federal Highway Administration Press Release

Zimride Matches Drivers, Passengers (Start-up combines carpooling and social networking)

San Francisco Chronicle

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CicLAvia's New Route, Metro's New Telenovela, Beverly Hills Tunnel, Green Line And LAX & More

AEG's Designs On Downtown L.A. Stadium ("The stadium is one of two mega-projects in the works downtown. The other is a redesigned Union Station, set to be enlarged to make room for the arrival of high-speed rail service. L.A. County'sMetropolitan Transportation Authority, which bought Union Station earlier this year for $75 million, is planning to release a short list of design teams for that project in October.")

Los Angeles Times

App For The "Space" Race: Phones Could Feed Your Parking Meter

New York Post

BART: We Will Tell You When It's Your Turn To Speak ("San Francisco's mass-transit authority shuts down cellphone service to quell protests, only to incite a louder outcry.")

The Atlantic

Beverly Hills City Council Writes Letter Opposing Tunnel Under BHHS

Beverly Hills Courier

A Chance To Look Behind The Curtain Of The Division 6 Bus Facility
StreetsBlog LA

CicLAvia Announces Expanded Route For October Heading North And South Off Original Spur
StreetsBlog LA
Announcing The October 9 2011 Route!
CicLAvia

Downtown LA Parking Meter Rate Hike Based On Demand

KABC-7

If The Metro Met LAX, What Would It Mean For Us?

Southern California Public Radio

Is California's High-Speed Rail A Boondoggle? ("Is California’s project doomed? Not necessarily. Or — perhaps a better way of putting it — not just yet.")

Washington Post

Keeping Up With Communication Technology: An Online Workshop On The Practical Use Of Social Media (free : September 21)

U.S. Transportation Research Board

LACMTA'S Rail Ridership Rose 8.4% In July

Progressive Railroading

Latino TV Show Will Hit The Road On Metro Buses

Los Angeles Daily News

Marketing Effort By Bob Hope Officials Aims To Bring In More Airlines
Burbank Leader

Metrolink's New Bike Cars (One rider's experience with and photos from a trip on Metrolink using new bike racks aboard trains)

Trainweb

Norquist Won't Oppose Extension Of U.S. Gasoline, Diesel Taxes

San Francisco Chronicle

Perry's Texas: Transportation Needs Trail Behind

Houston Chronicle

Public Health Scores In L.A. Councilmember Richard Alarcon Introduces A Motion To Ban Alcohol Ads From All City-Owned Property ("The Councilman is also supporting approval of a new 10-year bus bench contract that includes a provision to prohibit alcohol ads on bus benches.")

PR Newswire

San Francisco Muni Buses To Get Security Face-Lift

Government Technology

Seoul To Bring Back Women-Only Subway Cars: The South Korean Plan Aims To Combat Groping And Other Sexual Crimes Against Female Commuters. Because Reaction To The Proposal Has Been Mixed, The Restricted Cars Will Run Only Late At Night

Los Angeles Times

Telenovela "Los Americans" To Be Broadcast On Metro Bus Screens (""Los Americans," also funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, cost $600,000 to make and is being offered free to L.A. mass transit riders.")

Daily Breeze

Temple City Plans For Protected Bike Lanes On Rosemead Boulevard

Pasadena Star-News

Transit Agencies In U.S. Plan Higher Fares, Less Service

Bloomberg

Transit, Crowdsourcing And Universal Design
The City Fix
Carnegie Mellon Develops iPhone App that Predicts When Bus Will Arrive: Crowdsourcing Makes Real-time Transit Info Feasible, Affordable (Tiramisu App)
Carnegie Mellon University Press Release

Transportation Deadlock Keeps States In Suspense

Stateline

Transportation Officials Await Gas Tax's Fate

Governing

Undocumented Immigrants Face Checks on Amtrak, Greyhound: Federal Agents Appear To Have Stepped Up Checks For Undocumented Immigrants On Public Transportation, Including Greyhound Buses And Amtrak. The Feds Say They Have The Authority To Check Any Public Area
Miami Herald

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Metro's Record Ridership, Century City Subway, Arcadia Gold Line, Green Line To LAX, HSR Boondoggle?, How We Travel & More

The 2011 International Conference On Ecology & Transportation: Preliminary Program (Seattle : August 21-25)

ICOET

Arcadia City Council To Discuss Status Of Gold Line Project

Pasadena Star-News

California's HSR Boondoggle Now Even More Boondoggly

Mother Jones

Chamber Needs To Dig Deeper For Subway Facts ("Advocates for a station at Constellation Boulevard and Avenue of the Stars never want to acknowledge or talk about the actual facts and findings contained in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Draft Environmental Impact Report. That’s because that document concludes that a station one block away at Santa Monica Boulevard – less than a three-minute walk from the Constellation stop – would cost at least $60 million less to build and serve about 5 percent more riders, all without having to take the unprecedented risk of tunneling under a high school!")

Los Angeles Business Journal

Civil Rights Group Demands End To Car-Centric Transportation Policies
StreetsBlog DC

DOT's Stimulus Payouts Reach $30.4 Billion

Journal Of Commerce

Editorial: A Growing Gloom For States And Cities
New York Times

Five Most Beautiful Parking Garages (Yes, Parking Garages) In Los Angeles
LA Weekly

Gas Tax Fight May Not Be Only Worry When Congress Reconvenes

Transportation Issues Daily

How Transit Systems Can Make Money

Infrastructurist

How We Travel: A Sustainable National Program For Travel Data
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog

Lessons On How To Compete For A USDOT TIGER Grant (22p. PDF : presentation from a webinar held last month)

U.S. DOT

Metro To Hold Meetings On Linking Rail System To LAX

KABC-7

Metro's Rail Transit Ridership Up Sharply

Contra Costa Times

Most Popular Downtown Parking Spots Could Get Very Pricey Soon
Curbed LA

Name That Los Angeles Neighborhood! ("You’re standing at the intersection of Wilshire and Highland. What neighborhood are you in? The sign on the corner says you’re somewhere called Brookside. The sign on the other corner says you’re in Park Mile. The sign a block away, in full view of the other signs, says you’re in Sycamore Square. Google Maps doesn’t mention any of these. Google Maps calls this neighborhood Dockweiler....There's a neighborhood called West Los Angeles. West Los Angeles is not to be mixed up with the Westside of Los Angeles, which includes everything west of Hollywood, including West Hollywood, which isn’t part of Hollywood because Hollywood is part of Los Angeles and West Hollywood is its own city...")

The Awl

Opinion: Don't Add Tolls To Free Interstate Lanes (U.S. Rep. John Mica)
Orlando Sentinel

A Possible Fix For Expo Bikeway Safety Problems On The Westside: Elevate The Bikeway
StreetsBlog LA

Rail Ridership Appears To Hit Highs, But Metro Says It's Complicated

Curbed LA

Rough Ride For Highway Funds: Americans Looking For Local Solutions To Congestion Concerns

HNTB

Getting To Corridors For The Future: Many Americans Respond Positively To Calls To Improve Critical Interstate Highways For The Long-Term (2p. PDF)

America THINKS 2011 Corridors Of The Future Survey

San Bernardino College Students Offered Free Bus Rides To Class

KABC-7

Streetcar Builders See Potential In North American Market

Progressive Railroading

Subway To The Sea: A Battle Over One Of Metro Westside Extension Stops (audio)

Southern California Public Radio

Terminal Operators At Ports Of L.A. And Long Beach Agree To Cut Diesel Emissions: Seven Terminal Operators At The Ports Will Undertake Cleanup Projects Under A Settlement Reached With California Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris

Los Angeles Times

Transportation Battle On The Congressional Horizon
Southern California Public Radio

Tres Grand Vitesse, Tres Grand Cost Overrun

The Economist

USDOT Launches Plan To Prevent Rail Employee Fatigue

Progressive Railroading

Video Surveillance Uses By Rail Transit Agencies (91p. PDF)
U.S. Transit Cooperative Research Program Synthesis Report

What If Route Numbers Signified Service Level?

Human Transit

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Green Line To LAX, LA Bus Benches, Transit TV, L.A. Freedom Riders, LA Parking, Infrastructure Woes, BART Redesign & More

The 10 Cities Where Everyone Should Stop Driving Their Car

Business Insider

50 Years Later, Los Angeles Freedom Riders Get Their Due

Los Angeles Wave

Analysis: Infrastructure Woes -- A Roadblock To Growth ("The United States has fallen sharply in the World Economic Forum's ranking of national infrastructure systems. In the forum's 2007-2008 report, American infrastructure was ranked 6th best in the world. The 2011-2012 report due in September will show America at No. 16.")

Reuters

App Lets Drivers Auction Public Parking Spaces

Wired

Parking Auction App

BART Redesign: Plans For BMW-Designed Fleet Of The Future Revealed (includes video)

Huffington Post

Blue Bus Official Brings Global Perspective To Santa Monica

Santa Monica Lookout

Canoga Park Company Must Stop Removing Bus Benches, City Says

Contra Costa Times

Children With Autism, Connecting Via Transit ("The [New York Transit] museum, and others like it, are moving beyond accommodating the enthusiasm for trains and buses among children with autism and trying to use it to teach them how to connect with other people — and the world.")

New York Times

China's Enthusiasm For High-Speed Rail Stalls

USA Today

City Of Broadening Sidewalks: Chicago Drafts First-Ever Master Plan For Pedestrians

Architect's Newspaper

A Closer Look At Failure To Act: The Economic Impact Of Current Investment Trends In Surface Transportation Infrastructure

Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog

The Environmental Impact Of Your Two-Wheeled Commute

StreetsBlog DC

Two Wheels Vs. Four: How Far Do I Have To Ride My Bike To Pay Back Its Carbon Footprint?

Slate

Gas Tax Fight Looms

Forbes

Hearings Set On Train Lines To LAX

Contra Costa Times

Hearings Will Explore Train And Bus Extensions To LAX

Long Beach Press-Telegram

High-Speed Rail: Stimulus Or Spending Boondoggle?

San Francisco Chronicle

Intercity Rail Passenger Systems Update, Summer 2011 (11p. PDF)

U.S. Transportation Research Board

Metro Rail Green Line May Finally Be Extended To LAX In The Near Future

Beverly Hills Courier

Mobility Matters: The View From The Transportation And Infrastructure Summit

U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog

New L.A. Parking Meter Plan Gets Ticking: City Will Experiment In A Downtown Area With Devices That Will Allow Fees To Be Set Once A Month Depending On Demand. The Rate Would Change No More Than 50%

Los Angeles Times

Opinion: High-Speed Rail Authority: California Project Is On Track To Better Travel

San Francisco Chronicle

Opinion: The Test Of Our Generation (California High-Speed Rail)

San Francisco Chronicle

Photos: How Oil Wells Once Dominated Southern California's Landscape

LA as Subject via KCET

President Calls For Transportation Bill, While Some Advisors Call For 2nd Stimulus

Transportation Issues Daily

Rail-Volution Is Coming To DC This October

Greater Greater Washington

Reid Ready To Railroad Anyone In Pet Project's Path

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Train "Flyover" Gets Conceptual Approval In Walnut ("The $68 million project is one of 10 grade separations planned for the heart of the San Gabriel Valley by the Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority (ACE) to alleviate traffic congestion at train crossings.")

Whittier Daily News

Transit TV To Air One Economy's Groundbreaking Web Series, Los Americans On Los Angeles Metro Bus Routes

EmailWire

Westside Neighborhood Council Backs Constellation Subway Station: The Panel Votes To Support The Stop Rather Than One Proposed For Santa Monica Boulevard

Westwood-Century City Patch

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