$932 Million Expo Line Set To Open April 28
Los Angeles Wave
All Aboard For The Expo Line
Jewish Journal
America Hates Los Angeles, Poll Says
LAist
American Cities Favorability Poll
Public Policy Polling
(As if that weren't enough, California now ranks dead last among the states in favorability poll)
Bev Hills Could Vote To Delay Subway Certification, Engineering
Curbed LA
BH City Council Requests Public Forum For Subway Debate ("The move delays a Metro board vote on a route that calls for tunneling under Beverly Hills High School.")
Beverly Hills Patch
Bill Bars Cell Service Shutdown By Public Agencies ("BART and other government agencies in California would be barred from shutting down cellular phone networks unless they first obtain a court order under a bill that is sailing through the Legislature.")
San Francisco Chronicle
SB-1160 Communications: Service Interruptions
California Legislative Information
Breakdowns And Delays Plague Metro Blue Line: Metro Officials Point To A Backlog Of Maintenance Issues As The Cause Of A Surge In Problems On The Line Between Long Beach And L.A., Which Carries 26 Million Riders Per Year
Los Angeles Times
Capital Bikeshare Nearly Operationally Profitable
StreetsBlog DC
City Council Meets Tonight For Special Subway Session
Beverly Hills Patch
City Council Unanimous To MTA: You Must Listen To Us
Beverly Hills Courier
Coming Soon: Public Transit Website, App To Direct Passengers From Burbank To Pasadena
La Canada Online
Consultants Present Plans For Designated Bike Lanes On Campus
USC Daily Trojan
Covina Moves Toward Improving Pedestrian Safety At Metrolink Station
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Editorial: Clear The Tracks, Beverly Hills
Los Angeles Times
Electric Bikes Tap Into Southern California Market
USC Annenberg Neon Tommy
Expo Line Misses Book Festival By That Much (Train testing photos)
LA Observed
Federal Agency Ratchets Up Transit Push: Calculate Your Carbon Savings
Transportation Nation
Feds Open Bidding For High-Speed Rail Cars ("The $551 million request for proposals was announced by the Federal Railroad Administration, which is coordinating a California-led effort to purchase standardized bi-level rail fleets for use on Amtrakroutes in California, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Indiana and potentially Iowa.California will get 42 of the 130 new rail cars.")
Chicago Tribune
Feinstein: Senate Committee Approves Funding For Major California Transit Projects
Political News
Four Cities Begin Regional Bike Plan Effort; Bike Commuters To Benefit ("Baldwin Park, Monterey Park, El Monte and South El Monte are leading the historic planning effort in the hopes that their regional approach will land them an environmental justice grant from Caltrans worth $200,000.")
Pasadena Star-News
Group Will Address L.A. Walkability, Transit At Conference ("Pedestrians Count! 2012 promises to build on the social momentum gained from Sunday’s CicLAvia.")
Montrose Patch
High-Speed Rail Hearings Have Different Tone
Merced Sun-Star
House Passes HR 4348, Setting Up Chance For Senate Conference On Long-Term Bill
AASHTO Journal
Italy Launches Private High-Speed Train
AFP
Joel Kotkin: The Great California Exodus ("A leading U.S. demographer and 'Truman Democrat' talks about what is driving the middle class out of the Golden State.")
Wall Street Journal
La Canada High To Host Forum On 710 Freeway Expansion: Those Who Oppose Extension Hope Turnout Will Mean Something To Metro
La Canada Valley Sun
Los Angeles Rejects MTA Seismic Study; Approves 39-Story Tower On Top Of "MTA Faults"
Beverly Hills Courier
Maybe The System Really Is Working ("What are the chances that lawmakers succeed on negotiating a smaller bill? How far apart are Republicans and Democrats on the structure of the revamped highway program? Do the Keystone and gas price talking points add to or detract from that conversation, if they have an impact at all? Will the policy conversations that take place over the next few months benefit future highway bills?")
National Journal Transportation Experts Blog
Metro Expo Line To Open On April 28
Asian Journal: The Filipino-American Community Newspaper
Metro Launches New Smartphone App: Android Available Now, iPhone and iPad Next Week
The Source
Metro Unveils A New Smartphone App: Will You Use It?
LAist
Mike Antonovich's Tortured Point And How The Mayor Should Have Reacted
StreetsBlog LA
Opinion: High-Speed Rail For A More Sustainable State
Sacramento Bee
Opinion: Transportation Policy Needs Push To Get Moving (Two former DOT Secretaries argue that lawmakers need to hear a strong public mandate to resolve transportation funding deadlock)
Politico
Our View: Robbing Vote From 2039 ("There is such a thing as being too forward-thinking. And Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's suggestion Wednesday to make Measure R sales tax permanent is an example of that extreme vision.")
Pasadena Star-News
Poll Finds Toronto Drivers Would Pay For Relief ("Our politicians shouldn’t be fearful of implementing some of these choices. They’ve been done elsewhere, where the congestion and traffic issues weren’t as critical as they are in Toronto...citing the example of Los Angeles County. A 2008 referendum there supported a 30-year, 0.5 per cent regional sales tax to raise money for transit and road improvements.")
Metro News (Canada)
Port Of Los Angeles Proposes Developing The Cleanest Truck Program
Natural Resources Defense Council Switchboard Blog
San Francisco Puts Brakes On An App For Transit
New York Times
Santa Monica Opening Bike Campus On Earth Day Sunday
StreetsBlog LA
Santa Monica To Debut A "Bicycle Campus" On Earth Day
KCET
Senate Approves FY 2013 Transportation Appropriations
AASHTO Journal
State Lawmaker Wants To Make Sure Cities, Counties Pay For Sidewalk Repairs
The City Maven
Touring The New Expo Line With The "Ethnic Media"
StreetsBlog LA
Understanding The Trends From The APA Conference (A look at Twitter for a detailed analysis of the trends that emerged from this year's APA national conference, and for a comparison to last year's popular topics)
Planning Tech
Video: Metro Will Begin Testing The Orange Line Extension Next Week
Encino-Tarzana Patch
Villaraigosa's Transit Proposal Getting Cautious Reactions
LA Observed
Visionary Transportation Bureaucrats, Part 5: Shailen Bhatt And Kirk Steudle
StreetsBlog DC
What Does The Battle Over California's High Speed Rail Project Mean For America
Talking Points Memo
Why Is A Patent Troll In Luxembourg Suing U.S. Public Transit Agencies?
The Atlantic: Cities
Will Beverly Hills Delay Finalization Of Westside Subway Route?
LA Weekly
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