February 4: This Date In Los Angeles Transportation History (The very first horse-drawn rail cars mark the birth of L.A. transit)
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
$248 Million Restored For Home-To-School Transportation
USC Annenberg Neon Tommy
Assembly Approves Scaled-Back Bikeway Standards Bill
Cal Bike Report
At A Planned Train Trench, An Archaeological Treasure Trove ("A Spanish silver coin dating from 1816 is among the artifacts a 30-member team of archaeologists has unearthed next to railroad tracks in front of the San Gabriel Mission.")
Los Angeles Times
Behold The 1st Street Bike Lanes! Now Where Was The Outreach?
StreetsBlog LA
Bike-Share Coming To SF And Silicon Valley This July
StreetsBlog SF
Board Of Ed Still Likely To Oppose Mike Feuer Transit Bill
Beverly Hills Patch
California Transportation Foundation Awards (Nominations due March 1 for May 23 awards)
California Transportation Foundation
CBO Reports Highway Trust Fund Headed For Bankruptcy In 2014
The Hill
Commentary: Assemblyman Mike Feuer Responds To BHUSD ("My bill would not affect the ability of the Beverly Hills Unified School District to challenge one of the routes that the L.A. County Metro Board will consider for the Westside Subway Extension. In fact, it would only apply to projects for which, unlike the subway, a draft environmental impact report has yet to circulate. In addition, even were the bill to change in ways I haven’t yet contemplated, legislation enacted this session doesn’t take effect until at least next January—well after any legal challenge to the subway route most likely would be filed.")
Beverly Hills Patch
Editorial: High-Speed Reality -- Evidence Grows That Bullet Train Will Be A Misfire
Los Angeles Daily News
Exclusive Look Inside The MTA-MasterCard PayPass Pilot: 17,000 NYC Customers In Six Months
Fast Company
Express Bus Service Linking Torrance And Long Beach To Start In May
Daily Breeze
High-Speed Rail...Or Fail? ("A bullet train official tries to answer tough questions about soaring costs and judging the risks of new technology. Can it be built faster, better and cheaper?")
Los Angeles Times
High-Speed Rail's Coming Battle: Powerful Land Owners
Orange County Register
Is This Duck Delaying Your Highway? (Investigates widely echoed Republican claims that environmental rules are a major reason why it takes so long to build highways and bridges, and finds scant evidence to back up the claims. A major piece of the GOP transportation bill released this week would streamline environmental review procedures to speed up approval and construction of highway projects. However, only 4% of federal highway projects require an Environmental Impact Statement from federal agencies in the first place)
Washington Post
LA Convention Center To Become "LACOEX," Expansion Reaches Toward Football Stadium
Blog Downtown
Less Parking Required In New Atwater Pedestrian District
Curbed LA
Meet LACOEX, LA's Proposed New Elevated Convention Center
Curbed LA
More Cell Phones On NYC Subway
Transportation Nation
Not Everyone Opposes High-Speed Rail
Orange County Register
On The Road: Will Heavy Truckloads Ruin Roads?
Riverside Press-Enterprise
The Oz Of Los Angeles Traffic Lights
The Atlantic: Cities
Park 101 Panel (February 16 : Panel discussion regarding cap park for the 101 freeway)
Caltrans District 7
Park 101 District Website
Pomona Hopes To Close Some Streets To Cars For A Biking, Jogging And Walking Event
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Raise Fares Or Cut Service Or...? More "New Normal" Considerations For Transit Agencies
Progressive Railroading
A Rational Approach To Rail: New Priorities -- Start In Urban Areas, Build On What's In Place -- Could Propel The Bullet Train
Los Angeles Times
Ready To Fight? The House GOP Bill Leaves Little Choice
StreetsBlog Network
SCAG Adopts High-Speed Rail Agreement
Pasadena Star-News
SCAG And San Gabriel Valley Embrace HSR Alignment
California High Speed Rail Blog
Shocker: Bev Hills Study Says Subway Under BHHS Is Unsafe
Curbed LA
Speaker Boehner Faces Tough Test On $260 Billion Transportation Bill
The Hill
Supervisor Speaks Up On Studio Plan (Burbank officials "argued that the report used inaccurate assumptions, including one that projected roughly 20% of the new residents would use public transportation instead of driving their own vehicles.")
Burbank Leader
Synthesis Of Information Related To Transit Problems (10p. PDF)
Transit Cooperative Research Problem
Time To Fight ("Actions by members of the U.S. House over the past week suggest that Republican opposition to the funding of alternative transportation has developed into an all-out ideological battle.")
The Transport Politic
Today In History: How The Treaty Of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Defined Our Neighborhood Boundaries
KCET
Transit-Oriented Preservation
Shelterforce
Upland Plans Gracious, But Denser, Downtown
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Urbanflow: A City's Information, Visualized In Real Time ("Combining a map, tourist information, and data about the city’s services, a new system is making Helsinki truly transparent.")
Fast Company Exist
Who Still Likes The House Transpo Bill? Big Oil, Big Truck, And Big Box Retail
StreetsBlog DC
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