January 9: This Date In Los Angeles Transportation History
January 10
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Angels Flight To Close Jan. 10 (for several weeks of regular maintenance. "Once it reopens the fare will likely double to 50 cents per rider.")
Los Angeles Times
Brown Separates Transportation And Housing In State Reorganization
California Planning & Development Report
Editorial: California's High-Speed Rail To Nowhere
Washington Post
Experimental Real-Time Transit Screens Come To Arlington And DC
Mobility Lab
Expo Line Could Be Ready For Rail Passengers In Early April
Los Angeles Times
A Fight For The Future Of San Diego ("75 percent of San Diego residents thought the region should complement its existing highway system by expanding the transit network and implementing programs like congestion pricing. The feeling is more than an abstraction: In 1987 San Diego voters approved a half cent sales tax to finance long-term transportation improvements, with a third of that money dedicated to transit, and when the tax came up for extension in 2004, two-thirds of voters agreed to support it for another 40 years.")
The Atlantic: Cities
The Freeways Are Not So Nice (Song and video from punk rock band named "It's Casual" vent at Los Angeles freeway traffic and tout other ways to travel around)
StreetsBlog LA
Garcetti, LaBonge Want Car Free Yucca Street
StreetsBlog LA
Guidelines On The Use Of Auxiliary Through Lanes At Signalized Intersections (92p. PDF)
National Cooperative Highway Research Program
The Health Impacts Of Transportation ("Are there accepted rules of thumb about how transportation impacts peoples' health? What are the most important health benefits of mass transit? What are the biggest health dangers of mass transit? Can we ask similar questions about road projects? Is it worthwhile to engage in detailed (and costly) health impact analyses? If so, when are such studies appropriate?")
National Journal Transportation Experts Blog
High Speed Rail Grapevine Alignment Loses Support Of HSRA
Mountain Enterprise
House To Vote On Bill That Expands Drilling To Pay For Infrastructure
The Hill
Laws That Shaped L.A.: Why Los Angeles Isn't A Beach Town
KCET
Leaders Wrestle With Shuttering CRA While Not Losing Its Benefits
Los Angeles Daily News
Los Angeles Has Highest Gas Prices In America Right Now
LA Weekly
Metro Staff Taking Civil Rights Plans To Local Service Councils
StreetsBlog LA
Mixed-Use Project To Get Underway This Month In Downtown L.A. ("The $160-million One Santa Fe complex will consist of apartments, offices, shops and public outdoor spaces on Santa Fe Avenue between 1st and 4th streets.")
Los Angeles Times
National Workforce Grant Program Offers Opportunities For Public Agencies
Transportation Issues Daily
Norwalk Hires Consultant To Review City Transit System
Los Angeles Wave
One Santa Fe To Break Ground This Month ("The fully entitled project is slated for a four-acre portion of a 32-acre plot that is currently a Metro lot used for the maintenance and storage of rail cars. The property is bounded by Santa Fe Avenue, the First and Fourth streets bridges and Metrolink service tracks adjacent to the Los Angeles River.")
Los Angeles Downtown News
Planners Want To Discard Grapevine Route For Rail Project ("Though it was ruled out in 2005, the more direct Interstate 5-Grapevine corridor was revived for further study last May. But a new study by the California High Speed Rail Authority now indicates that the longer route through Palmdale and Lancaster is the better option.")
Los Angeles Times
Executive Summary: LA Basin Mountain Crossing (I-5 Grapevine Alignment)
California High-Speed Rail Authority
Press Release
California High-Speed Rail Authority
R, Ye Mateys! R Traffic Be Hurtin! ("When Westside Assemblyman Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) offers a way to fast-track the freeway and rail initiatives of the still-popular Measure R without raising new taxes, it’s worth paying close attention.")
CityWatch
RDAs Try To Push Stay Of Execution Past February 1, But Don't Know Which Projects Will Be Killed
California Planning & Development Report
SF's New Parking Program Reduces Ticketing Anxiety
San Francisco Chronicle
Stalled I-5 Project Gets Ready To Roll: Caltrans Will Host Community Meeting To Inform Residents Of What To Expect As Construction Of Carpool Lane Resumes
Burbank Leader
A Strong Case For A Rail- And Transit-Oriented California
Natural Resources Defense Council Switchboard Blog
Study: Longer Commutes For Palos Verdes Residents
Palos Verdes Patch
Subversive Bicycle Photos: Los Angeles (Explore Southern California 100 years ago, when bicycling was more popular than one might imagine)
Copenhagenize
To GOP's Dismay, DOT Funds Disaster Relief Without Gutting Other Programs
StreetsBlog DC
The Whip Snaps At High Speed Rail...And More
KQED
With 3 Weeks Left, Everyone Looking For Redevelopment Fixes
Curbed LA
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