9th National Conference On Transportation Asset Management (April 16-18 : San Diego)
Transportation Research Board
10 Minutes With The Mayor: Still Upbeat On America Fast Forward, Loves CicLAvia
StreetsBlog LA
Advocates For Safe Walking, Cycling Push Police For Safer Streets
StreetsBlog LA
As Yet Another House Proposal Dies In Utero, Boehner Looks To Senate Bill
StreetsBlog DC
California's Bullet Train: A Fresh Start And A Change In Direction
Infrastructure USA
A Collision Of Visions On Bullet Train: The High-Speed Rail Line Would Transform California Lifestyles For The Better, Backers Say. Opponents See A Costly Social Engineering Folly
Los Angeles Times
Editorial: In Rail Debate, Both Sides Apply High-Speed Spin
Modesto Bee
El Monte Has Spent $1.3 Million On Legal Issues With Former Transit Village Developers
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Everything You Need To Know About The High Desert Freeway
Curbed LA
Experts See No New Transportation Bill Before Election
StreetsBlog DC
Explaining Transit's Secret Language
The Atlantic: Cities
Gen Y Most Likely To Find Alternate Transportation Methods As Pump Prices Rise, According To Latest American Pulse Survey
PRWeb
Guidebook For Measuring Performance Of Automated People Mover Systems At Airports (136p. PDF)
Airport Cooperative Research Program
House To Drop Controversial Transit Provision
Governing
How El Paso Ended Up With America's Best Smart Growth Plan (The nation’s 19th-largest city has adopted a detailed comprehensive transit-centric plan)
The Atlantic: Cities
Plan El Paso
Industry Signs Metrolink Parking Services Agreement
Diamond Bar Patch
Money For Nothing: Study Confirms Taking Public Transit Saves, Big Time
Next American City
New Head Of California High-Speed Rail Optimistic ("California's High-Speed Rail Authority has a new chairman. Dan Richard, a Brown appointee, is now the public point person for the agency, and no doubt, he's bracing to take a lot of the political heat over questions ranging from high speed rail's cost and its estimated ridership to whether we should go ahead with this project at all." Audio and text interview)
California Report
No Torrance, No MAX ("Since 1990, the Municipal Area Express (MAX) buses have been carrying commuters from various South Bay cities to employment sites in El Segundo. MAX service is jointly provided by the cities of El Segundo, Lawndale, Lomita, Torrance as well as the City and County of Los Angeles; Torrance,as the largest city in the South Bay, serves as the lead agency...Torrance’s share of MAX operating funds is the largest; a Torrance pull out might mean severely curtailed service, or the end of MAX altogether.")
More Than Red Cars
Occupant Volume Integrity Evaluation In Passenger Rail Cars (4p. PDF)
Federal Railroad Administration Research Results
Palm Rustlers Don't Pay A Dime For Damages To Public Land ("A local nonprofit slapped with a $450,000 lawsuit for removing palm trees from an LA freeway won’t have to pay a cent in damages, leaving taxpayers to foot the bill for damages caused by the removal.")
NBC Los Angeles
Republican Sen. Mike Enzi Warns Gas Tax Must Be Raised
Huffington Post
Policy Tools For A More Sustainable Town
The Atlantic: Cities
Senate Leaders Reach Deal On Transpo Bill, Setting Up Slew Of Votes Today
StreetsBlog DC
SF Supes: Buildings Must Offer Bike Parking
Bay Citizen
Six Notable And Unusual Maps Of Southern California (Unusual and important maps, including Metro Transportation Library's 1957 "Master Plan Of Freeways," are highlighted and placed in context)
LA as Subject via KCET
Trolley Bus In Wrong Place vs. Motor Buses In Right One
Human Transit
Union Targets GOP Leaders Over Transportation Funding
Washington Post
U.S. Conference Of Mayors Report: Nation's Transportation Infrastructure Needs To Keep Pace With Growing Exports
Progressive Railroading
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