"Alight?" How About Just "Exit?"
Washington Post
Availability Of $826.5M In Fed Grants Announced
Metro Magazine
FTA Fiscal Year 2012 Apportionments, Allocations, And Program Information (71p. PDF)
Federal Register
Average U.S. Gas Prices Hover At Record-Level Highs ("An improving economy boosts demand for oil, driving up pump prices and crimping consumers' budgets.")
Los Angeles Times
Baucus Adds Transit Tax Benefit To Senate Transpo Bill
StreetsBlog DC
A Bridge Built To Sway When The Earth Shakes (includes interactive animated video demonstration)
New York Times
Butterscotch Line: Eastside High School Students Re-Design Gold Line Stations
StreetsBlog LA
California High-Speed Rail Authority's 2012 Draft Business Plan: Assessment - Still Not Investment Grade (71p. PDF)
Community Coalition On High Speed Rail
California Lawmakers To Consider Gold Line Extension ("A proposal to extend the Gold Line light-rail system from Azusa to Montclair in San Bernardino County faces a hiccup: the state law authorizing the project limited it to Los Angeles County.")
Los Angeles Times
City Taking "Think Labs" On The Road To Crowd Source Ideas For Improving Mobility In L.A. ("These upcoming meetings, which are free and open to the public, are part of what's known as LA/2B, described by the City as "a campaign to update the City’s Mobility Plan and positively shape the future of transportation in LA via crowd-sourced ideas from Angelenos.")
LAist
Committee Finds $9.6 Billion For $109B Senate Transportation Bill
The Hill
The Death Row Of Urban Highways, Part 2
The Atlantic: Cities
Express Bus Service Linking Torrance And Long Beach To Start In May
Daily Breeze
Feedback Sought For Lost Hills Overpass Improvement Project
Calabasas Patch
The History Of Carpooling, From Jitneys To Ridesharing ("Ridesharing began shortly after the introduction of the Model-T, America’s first automobile priced with for the middle-class.")
Shareable
House Republicans' Transportation Bill Survives A Beating In Committees
Washington Post
Is Highland Park The Next Echo Park? Two 'Hoods Debate
Curbed LA
John Boehner Bets Big On Road Bill Vote
Politico
Listen: Subway Platform As Musical Instrument ("Reach New York: An Urban Musical Instrument is an audio installation by artist/architect/composer Christopher Janney.")
Transportation Nation
Metro Comments On Beverly Hills' Report On Tunneling Safety For Westside Subway Extension
The Source
Metro On Bev Hills Tunnel Study: We Won't Build Unsafe Subway
Curbed LA
MTA Responds To City's Westside Subway Extension Evaluation
Beverly Hills Patch
Most Americans Want A Walkable Neighborhood, Not A Big House
GOOD
Parking Meter Rates, Fines Among Highest In The Nation
San Francisco Chronicle
Pugh Designing Inglewood's Crenshaw Line Stations
Curbed LA
Safe Bicycling Streets: What Will It Take?
KCET
Secretary LaHood, Metro Officials Tout state's High-Speed Rail Plans
The Source
Senate Highway Bill Set To Kick Off Thursday
Transportation Nation
Senate Likely To Begin Debate On Transportation Bill On February 14
Transportation Issues Daily
The Highway Investment, Job Creation And Economic Growth Act Of 2012
U.S. Senate Committee On Finance
Sisterhood Of The Traveling Bikes
Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles County Supervisor, Third District
Torrance's Planned Withdrawal From MAX Transit May Kill Entire Service
Daily Breeze
Transportation Bill Lurches Forward Despite Revenue Doubts
Politico
Transportation Project Impact Case Studies (video : "Transportation Project Impact Case Studies (T-PICS) is a web tool that provides access to a nationwide database of 100 case studies that describe the pre- and post-construction economic development effects of 11 kinds of transportation projects.")
The National Academies via Vimeo
T-PICS Website
Upland To Receive $1 Million For Foothill Widening Project
Contra Costa Times
What's Behind HSR's Recent Political Struggles?
California High Speed Rail Blog
Why Women-Only Transit Options Have Caught On
The Atlantic: Cities
Wireless Power Could Revolutionize Highway Transportation, Stanford Researchers Say ("Stanford researchers have designed a new technology that could lead to wireless charging of electric vehicles while they cruise down the highway.")
Stanford University News
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