This is National Library Week. There are more than 120,000 libraries in the United States connecting people to resources and helping them locate information, supporting literacy programs, developing childhood readership, helping people find a job, preserving our historical and cultural heritage, supporting lifelong learning and more -- every day. This poster advertised the Los Angeles Railway's employee library in 1937.A 3-D Tool To Let Urban Planners Visualize Traffic, Noise And Pollution
Fast Company Exist
Anaheim Will Lose Link To Bullet Train ("Excessive cost is cited for ending route from Bay Area in L.A.")
Daily Breeze
APA Seeks To Rejuvenate Planning Profession At National Conference In Los Angeles (The American Planning Association national conference returns to Los Angeles for the first time since 1986. "Under the theme, “ReImagine,” conference organizers hope to introduce planners to the contemporary Los Angeles, with a host of tours and California-specific sessions, among 200 total sessions. CP&DR spoke with APA President Mitchell Silver, planning director for the city of Raleigh, NC, and local conference chair Marissa Aho, a planner with Rosenheim & Associates, about the upcoming conference, its relationship with California, and what it portends for the planning profession.")
California Planning & Development Report
APA National Conference Website (April 14-17 : Los Angeles : complete list of sessions, workshops, speakers, events and more)
APA
Are You Ready For Some Gridlock?: AEG's Stadium Relies Heavily On Public Transportation
Blog Downtown
As Debate Over Tuition Hikes Or Class Cuts Explodes At SMC, Millions Spent On Campus Auto Infrastructure
StreetsBlog LA
Best Practices In Advocating For Disabled & Senior Transportation
Transportation Issues Daily
Blue Line At 20: Looking Back At Early Service Between Los Angeles And Long Beach (1902-1961) (Yesterday, April 8, marks the anniversary of the last Pacific Electric streetcar in service, running between L.A. and Long Beach. Its history, including historic images, is recounted here)
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Breaking: Portland's Not That Cool, L.A. Not That Superficial
Salon
Bullet Trains Stop Short Of O.C. In New Plan ("Anaheim not cut out of plans entirely, councilwoman says, but ‘electrified’ trains may be too expensive.")
Orange County Register
East Hollywood Farmers' Market Now Open Thursdays: The Market Aims To Draw Commuters From The Hollywood/Western Metro Station And Low-Income Residents
Hollywood Patch
The Fight To Save Los Angeles' Little Tokyo ("Little Tokyo is undergoing change, in part because of the proximity of the Civic Center and downtown, and in part because of a busy light rail station that opened in the neighborhood in 2009 and that is attracting development. Potentially, the station could become one of the city’s busiest, because of a project called the Regional Connecter, an extension of nearby transit lines that will transform the Little Tokyo station into a major transfer center.")
The Atlantic: Cities
Free Wheels: CicLAvia Partners With Bike Nation To Provide 100 Bicycles To Riders
LAist
Going The Distance Together: A Citizen's Guide To Context Sensitive Solutions For Better Transportation (83p. PDF)
National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Gov. Brown Looks To Global Warming Fees To Pay For High-Speed Rail
Silicon Valley Mercury News
Green Light To Construction On Gold Line Foothill Extension (video)
Baldwin Park Patch
High Speed Rail Gets Another Look ("High speed rail no longer costs as much as it did a few months ago.")
NBC Los Angeles
Improvements Could Hit Harder On Drivers' Pockets ("Faced with a half-trillion dollars in Southern California transportation needs through 2035, officials Thursday called for higher gas taxes or a shift to a fee drivers would pay based on how far they drive.")
Riverside Press-Enterprise
In New Census Data, An Improved Outlook For Core Counties
The Transport Politic
Jane Jacobs On Transportation: My Take
Human Transit
LA State Historic Park Brings Nature To The City
USC Daily Trojan
Latest Change In Bullet Train Plan A Blow To Orange County ("Agency's revised plan eliminates a link to Anaheim, making L.A. the southern terminus in the first phase.")
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Streetcars: A Push To Bring Back The Rich History Of Streetcars Begins In Downtown LA
Huffington Post
Metro Gold Line Extension To Move Full Speed Ahead To Azusa, And Then It's On To Claremont
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
NFL: Sports Development Has Drawbacks, Including Worse Traffic, Study Warns
Los Angeles Daily News
Opinion: Rail Finance Plan Has Hole As Big As A Train Tunnel
Sacramento Bee
Opinion: Why Does U.S. Build Roads If It Can't Pay To Fix Them?
Bloomberg
Planning Los Angeles: An Interview With David C. Sloane (An interview with the Director of Undergraduate Programs at the University of Southern California’s Price School of Public Policy, has gathered together some of the city’s best minds in an effort to catalogue “as many vital planning issues in Los Angeles as possible, while coming together around one major point: namely, that even the allegedly most sprawltastic city in America — the city that has become synonymous in the public imagination with smog, highways, disasters (both natural and man-made), and growth run wild — is planned, with the history, legislation, and culture to prove it.")
Planetizen
Subway Platforms From Around The World (photo essay)
The Atlantic: Cities
Struggling To Get To School: The Effect Of State Transportation Cuts On Public School Students, Families
UC Berkeley Institute Of Governmental Studies Building Resilient Regions
A Better Future For Bay Area Transit: Nine Ways To Deliver Better Transit Service, Control Costs And Attract More Riders (18p. PDF)
San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR)
Subway Project Hits Museums (letter to the editor from LACMTA CEO Art Leahy)
Los Angeles Times
Transit Getting More Americans Where They Need To Go
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Transportation Security: A Summary Of Transportation Research Board Activities (slideshow)
Transportation Research Board
USHSR Applauds California Governor For New HSR Business Plan
Mass Transit
Video Highlights From Shannon & Wilson Inc. Review Of MTA Seismic Study
Beverly Hills Courier
What Happened To John Mica, Pro-Transit Republican?
StreetsBlog DC
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