Transpo Bill Extension, Expo Line, I-210 Gold Line Bridge, Bike/Ped Saved & More

Boehner: Lets Build Highways To Transport Fossil Fuels
StreetsBlog DC

Boehner: Tie Next Highway Bill To Drilling Expansion

The Hill

Car Lovers Like Mass Transit More Than They Think (Looks at a study in Sweden which provided drivers with 30-day transit passes, which reinforced that people are "terrible at predicting the strength of their emotions.")

The Atlantic

Construction Work Will Start On Expo Light-Rail Line To Santa Monica

Long Beach Press-Telegram

Council Gets Expo Line Rolling ("A day after the Expo light rail groundbreaking in downtown Santa Monica, the City Council got down to the project's nuts and bolts. The council gave city staff the direction they need to get the project up and running in cooperation with the Expo Metro Line Authority, while negotiating for the kinds of design and construction details they say the people of Santa Monica want.")

Santa Monica Lookout

A Driving Route Made Just For You: A Research Project Provides Personalized Directions That Adapt To Weather, Traffic Conditions, And Your Own Driving Habits

MIT Technology Review

Expo Means Jobs (Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky)

CityWatch

Expo Phase I Moves Forward, Phase II Back To Court
StreetsBlog LA

Farmer's Field's Fanciful Green Promise ("Traffic engineer Bob Shanteau says that promise is extremely hard to fulfill, so AEG will resort to buying carbon credits — essentially, paying to help reduce emissions in another part of California, or even outside California, as penance for adding a big emissions load to downtown.")

LA Weekly

Foundation Work Begins On I-210 Gold Line Bridge

Pasadena Star-News

"Gating Public Streets Is Return To Feudal Times"

CityWatch

Greening The Port Of Los Angeles

USC Annenberg Neon Tommy

High-Speed Rail Agency Ordered To Reach More Minority Businesses

Los Angeles Times

Interview: Gabriel Wartofsky On Designing For The "Conscious Commuter" (With a degree in transportation design, this interviewee has some interesting ideas for incorporating folding electric bikes into the overall transportation mosaic)

KCET

Keeping Up With Communication Technology: An Online Workshop On The Practical Uses Of Social Media (free webinar : September 21 : "TRB’s first-ever, online-only workshop will consist of 2 plenary sessions and eight breakout sessions that will explore various social media issues and challenges faced by transportation agencies and others. Attendees may attend any or all of the sessions that their schedule allows.")

U.S. Transportation Research Board

Last-Minute Deal Preserves Bike/Ped Funding: But For How Long?

StreetsBlog DC

Long Beach Bicycle Station Helps Public Transit

KABC-7

Meetings To Update Communities On Gold Line Extension Planned ("MTA officials are studying two possible routes for the Gold Line Extension: the Washington Boulevard Route, favored by Whittier as the most beneficial to the community, its residents, employers and businesses, and a line along the Pomona (60) Freeway.")

Los Angeles Wave

New Bike Lane Will Go From Boyle Heights To Downtown L.A.

EGP News

New Rule Strengthens Accessibility At Rail Stations

Metro Magazine

North Spur Trimmed: Now To El Pueblo

CicLAvia

Parking Space Parklets Could Last Past Park(ing) Day In Downtown
Curbed LA

Powering A City With Its Subways And Massive Spinning Wheels: By Adding Giant Flywheels To Subway Systems, Cities Are Able To Harness The Power Created By Thousands Of Braking Trains, Using It To Accelerate Other Trains Or Feeding It Back Into The Grid

Fast Company

School Starting Times Can Transform Transit Efficiency
Human Transit

Sen. Boxer Spoiling For A "Fight" Over Transportation Enhancements
StreetsBlog DC

Senate Passes FAA, Highway Funding

The Hill

Sharing Data Makes For Truly Public Transit (looks at some recently released transit apps in cities around the U.S.)

Fast Company

"Team" Beverly Hills' Response To The MTA

Beverly Hills Courier

TOD Database: One Stop Shop For Station Area Data (webinar : September 20 : "This webinar session is sponsored by The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and is valuable to planners, practitioners, housing advocates, MPOs, local, state and federal DOT's, transit agencies, sustainable communities grantees, advocates, as well as elected officials and other decision makers.")

Center For Transit-Oriented Development

Top Ten Lessons Learned From The Expo Line

CityWatch

Whittier City Council Opts Not To Pay To Continue Three Norwalk Bus Lines

Whittier Daily News

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Metro Turnstiles, Gold Line WiFi, Expo Line Lawsuit, Measure R Oversight, CalPERS & Infrastructure, Bike/Ped Funding, Beverly Hills Subway & More

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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Metro Station Name Changes, Expo Phase II, LA Rail History, CAHSR, Beverly Hills In-Fighting, Transit Saves $$, 210 Closure & More

210 Closures For Gold Line Construction

Sierra Madre Patch

AASHTO Chief Calls For Long-Term Infrastructure Plan

Journal Of Commerce

APTA: Public Transit Users Save $9,964 Annually

Metro Magazine

Beverly Hills At War Over Westside Subway Stop War
Curbed LA

Board Urges Cellphone Ban For All Commercial Drivers

New York Times

Bonus Round!: U.S. Transportation Secretary Takes More Of Your Questions

Infrastructurist

California's High-Speed Rail Mistake

Huffington Post

Carsharing And Parking Sharing ("What can a city do to bring carsharing to every city block? What would make carsharing a viable option for everyone and greatly reduce the number of cars clogging our streets?")

Shareable

Construction Impacts At I-405/Sunset Interchange During Move-In Weekend

UCLA Be A Green Commuter!

An Entirely New City In America, Built Only For Technology Testing ("Benchmark testing and Evaluation will be carried out at The Centre in primarily four sectors: Green Energy, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Homeland Security and Next Generation Wireless Infrastructure.")

Industry Leaders

Explore L.A. Rail History With Heritage Foundation: Join This Bus Tour To Learn More About The History Of Streetcars In Echo Park

Echo Park Patch

For Sale: 200 Sq. Feet, 0 BRs, No View: $125K (Looks at the high price of parking in U.S. downtowns. "San Francisco, for example, in 2006 required that developers unbundle parking-spot prices from the prices of condos. Now, the two properties have to be purchased separately, so buyers are more likely to take public transit to work.")

Wall Street Journal

From Place To Place: Shifting The Transportation Paradigm With Placemaking

Project For Public Spaces

Good Network Maps: Clear Without Color?
Human Transit

High-Speed Rail Panel Cites Improvements In Ridership Model

California Watch

House Passes Transportation Extension Unanimously
StreetsBlog DC

LA Metro Breaks Ground On Phase 2 Of Expo Line

USC Daily Trojan

Making Bikes Count In LA County ("The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition (LACBC) will be conducting the 2nd ever City of Los Angeles Bike Count. In 2009, we counted over 14,000 cyclists at 50 intersections throughout the City of Los Angeles.")

Health DATAbytes

Metro To Consider Station/Facility Name Changes

Plus Metro

New Bikestation To Open At Downtown Near Transit Mall

Long Beach Post

Obama Proposes $4 Billion For HSR In Jobs Bill

California High Speed Rail Blog

Park(ing) Day LA Is Friday

Curbed LA

September 13, 1899: New Yorker Becomes First U.S. Pedestrian Killed By Car

Wired

Solo Drivers Of Low-Emission Autos Fume Over Fees To Use Carpool Lanes: The MTA Plans To Convert Carpool Lanes On Two Los Angeles-Area Freeways To Toll Roads, With Fees Of Up To $1.40 A Mile For Solo Drivers Of Electric And Other Alternative-Fuel Vehicles

Los Angeles Times

Three Bothers Set Out to Explore High-Speed Rail At A Walker's Pace
GOOD
We Make The Road By Walking (The brothers are walking the length of California's high-speed rail tracks to spark a public discussion about land-use and the urban-rural divide. Their blog tells their story, the route, video diary and more)

U.S. Motorists May Spend A Record $491 Billion For Gasoline This Year

Los Angeles Times

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Expo Line II, Metro TAP, Beverly Hills Subway, More Hollywood Bowl, Amtrak, Bike Lanes & More

3 Concerns About Extension Of Highway & Transit Bill

Transportation Issues Daily

2005: Orange Line Busway Opens Between North Hollywood And Warner Center

Los Angeles Daily News

All Aboard: Officials Break Ground On Expo Line

Santa Monica Daily Press

Beverly Hills Officials Continue To Clash Over Westside Subway

LA Weekly

Brien Refuses To Cooperate With Korbatov On Tour Of School

Beverly Hills Courier

Caltrans Finalizes Audit Of SGVCOG, Reduces Scope Of Grant Repayment To $89,262

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Eastbound Foothill I-210 Freeway To Close Tuesday

Pasadena Now

Editorial: Amtrak Held Up Again: Latest Proposal To Eliminate State-Supported Amtrak Service Across The Country Is A Short-Sighted Assault On Passenger Rail ("For the first time ever, Amtrak is expected to hit the 30 million milestone on Sept. 30. That's how many passengers it will have served over the previous 12 months, an annual increase in train ridership of 6.4 percent — a remarkably robust result given the nation's high unemployment rate and challenging economic circumstances.")

Baltimore Sun

Expo Line Light Rail: Phase Two Breaks Ground Today

Huffington Post

Expo Update: And Twenty Years Later, Ground Was Broken
StreetsBlog LA

Freeway Exits To Be Open For San Bernardino's Route 66 Rendezvous

San Bernardino Sun

Guide To Integrating Business Processes To Improve Travel Time Reliability (63p. PDF)
Strategic Highway Research Program

Hollywood Bowl Transit, Part II: So What Did Those People Mover & Elevated Moving Sidewalk Proposals Say?
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog

House And Senate Agree On 6-Month Transpo Extension
StreetsBlog DC

The Housing-Value Bonus For Rail Transit: 10, 20, Even 50 Percent
StreetsBlog DC
Public Transit's Impact On Housing Costs: A Review Of The Literature (12p. PDF)
Center For Housing Policy

Los Angeles Dedicates Car Lane To Bicycles

The City Fix

Metro To Start Locking Turnstiles [In] October
Plus Metro

Monrovia Mayor Resigns As Alternate From Gold Line Board

Pasadena Star-News

Obama's Jobs Plan: Help Or Hindrance?
National Journal Transportation Experts Blog

Ray LaHood Answers Your Questions On Street Signs, Politicians, Ports & More (video)

Infrastructurist

Reclaiming Los Angeles From Cars, One Lane At A Time

Smart Planet

Sept. 20 Is "Don't X Out Public Transportation Day" (Local events and involvement opportunities at Supporttransit.org)

Reconnecting America

Solemn Gathering Marks Anniversary Of Metrolink Crash

Los Angeles Times

Southland Officials Break Ground On Expo Line To Santa Monica

Southern California Public Radio

The TAP Pass Day Solution That Snuck Beneath Our Radar (And A Peek At Metro's Latest Plans For The Rail Station Gates)

StreetsBlog LA

Union Square Portal To Subway Designed To Blend In

San Francisco Chronicle

Where's the Go Metro - Los Angeles App?
Plus Metro

Work On Expo Light Rail To Santa Monica Starts

Santa Monica Dispatch

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Expo Line Moves West, Gold Line Foothill, Reactions To Obama's Plan, High Speed Rail, CEQA, Gas Prices & More

3 Resign From Gold Line Board After Conflict-Of-Interest Complaint: L.A. Councilman Ed Reyes And Two Other Elected Officials Step Down From Metro Gold Line Foothill Construction Authority

Los Angeles Times

10 Years After 9/11, Security Is Still Agencies' Top Priority

Passenger Transport

AASHTO To President Obama: "States DOTs Are Ready To Work Now"

AASHTO Press Release

AEG's Assertion Of Carbon-Neutral Downtown Stadium Questioned By Environmentalists

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

APTA Commends President Obama For Focus On Creating Jobs Through Investing In Transportation Infrastructure

APTA Press Release

Arizona Must Reinstate Transit Program, Judge Rules

AZ Central

BHUSD President Clashes With Council Over Subway Fight: Lisa Korbatov Tells City Council Members That She Objects To A Tour Of The High School And "Clandestine" Meetings With Metro And County officials

Beverly Hills Patch

Bill Would Let Governor Protect Large Projects From Lengthy Challenges: The Effort To Redefine The Landmark California Environmental Quality Act Was Unveiled With Only One Day Left In The Legislative Session. The Impetus Is The Football Stadium Proposed For Downtown L.A.

Los Angeles Times

Clipper Card Hits Headwinds: Introduced Full Of Promise, The Mass Transit Payment System Has Encountered Glitches

Bay Citizen

Construction Of Expo Line's Second Part to Begin: This Phase Will Involve A New Group Of Contractors, A Fixed Budget And A Larger Contingency Fund For Unknown Costs, Says The Head Of The Expo Line Construction Authority

Los Angeles Times

Deal Would Prevent USDOT Shut Down

Transportation Issues Daily

Focus On Infrastructure Earns Associations' Approval Of Obama's Jobs Act ("The Washington-based U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM), the National League of Cities (NLC), the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Smart Growth America (SGA), and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) all released statements supporting the plan.")

American City & County

Gas Prices Edge Higher In California

Los Angeles Times

High-Speed Rail A Big Opportunity For Business

Fresno Bee

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Backs American Jobs Act

White House Press Release

Metrolink Urges Vigilance Among Passengers

Inland News Today

Mica Not Interested In Obama's Infrastructure Play

Transportation Nation

New International Terminal Creates 40K Jobs At LAX

KABC-7

Obama's Jobs Bill: Heavy On Infrastructure, But Heavy Enough?

Infrastructurist

Orange County Business Council's Lucy Dunn Receives Mobility 21's Private Sector Leader Of The Year Award

MarketWatch

President's Jobs Plan Might Spell End Of California High-Speed Rail

NBC Los Angeles

Rail Advocates: House Bill Would Kill Amtrak

StreetsBlog DC

Republican Jobs Proposal Gets Law Wrong, Transportation Department Says

Huffington Post

Second Steps: The Riverside-Maple Greenway Will Connect Parks In Glendale

StreetsBlog LA

Sheriff's Officials Plan Extra Patrols On Trains And Buses During 9/11 Anniversary

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

SM Has 3 "Structurally Deficient" Buses: A Coalition Aiming To Modernize Infrastructure In The U.S. Also Cites Cutbacks To The Big Blue Bus

Santa Monica Patch

Union Pacific CEO Sees Rail-Crash Systems As "Terrible Waste"

Bloomberg

Vycon Plans To Tap Speeding Subway Trains For Immense Amounts Of Kinetic Energy

Inhabitat

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