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4/02/2012

NoHo Red/Orange Lines, HSR Plan & Budget, Montebello CNG, Metrolink GPS, Burbank Plan & More

April 2: This Date In Los Angeles Transportation History (Reduction in bus fare results in extraordinary success)
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog

All The Details On The Proposed Red/Orange Line Link In Noho
Curbed LA

The Boom In Biking Benefits Everyone, Not Just Bicyclists
Shareable

City Of Montebello Celebrates Opening Of Bus CNG Fuel Station
Fiedler Group

Cleantech Site Could Still Go To Trammell Crow
Los Angeles Downtown News

Congress Agrees To Kick The Can For 90 More Days
StreetsBlog DC

Digital Rail Crash-Avoidance System Runs Into Trouble
CNBC

Draft Burbank General Plan Is Both Adorable And Progressive
Curbed LA

High-Speed Rail Plan Slashes Costs To Calm Critics
San Francisco Chronicle

Is Rahm Emanuel's $7 Billion Infrastructure Plan Replicable?
StreetsBlog Network
If Washington Can't Commit, Chicago Is Ready To Go It Alone
The Transport Politic

Jerry Brown Lowers HSR Cost By $30 Billion
California High Speed Rail Blog

Lawmakers Skeptical About Jerry Brown's High-Speed Rail Revision
Sacramento Bee

Lean On Me: Little Use Found For Lean Bars At Boyle Heights Bus Stops
StreetsBlog LA

Metrolink Trains Getting GPS Safety Devices
San Francisco Chronicle

Millennials Show Apathy Toward Cars
The City Fix

More States Are Privatizing Their Infrastructure. Are They Making A Mistake?
Washington Post

New High-Speed Rail Business Plan Coming Monday
Capital Public Radio

New Plan For Bullet Train Could Cut Cost By $30 Million
Los Angeles Times

Planned Interchange Redesign To Smooth Loma Linda Traffic
Loma Linda Patch

Planned Metrolink GPS System Might Have Averted Deadly Chatsworth Crash
Ventura County Star

Proposed Federal Transit Safety Regs Under Scrutiny From House Panel
StreetsBlog DC

QR Codes To Give You Train Info On Your Smart Code
LoHud

Questions Remain Despite Revised Calif. Rail Plan
San Francisco Chronicle

Rejection Of Senate Transpo Bill Opens Rift Between GOP, Business Groups
StreetsBlog DC

Ridesharing As A Compliment To Transit: A Synthesis Of Transit Practice (72p. PDF)
Transit Cooperative Research Program

Sunset Triangle, Silver Lake's New Pedestrian Plaza, Sounds Like A Great Idea. So Why Do People Have Problems With It?
LA Weekly

Transportation Advocates See Little Hope For Pre-Election Long-Term Highway Bill
The Hill

UCLA Cuts Commuter Traffic
Los Angeles Daily News

While Toronto Feuded, Los Angeles Built Transit ("The sheer speed of L.A.’s transformation into a transit city is a textbook example of metropolitan consensus-building, and stands in sharp contrast to the situation in Toronto, where municipal politicians have spent roughly the same period mired in a feud over the relative merits of LRTs versus subways.")
Globe And Mail (Canada)

Will The 90-Day Extension Of SAFETEA-LU Result In A Multi-Year Bill?
Transportation Issues Daily

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