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6/06/2012

Expo Culver City & Farmdale, Crenshaw Line, LAX Project, Bullet Train, Transpo Bill & More


Boxer And Inhofe Make Their Offer To The House, Try To Avoid 10th Extension
StreetsBlog DC

Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council Wants More Barriers To High Density Developments
StreetsBlog LA

Can Ditching Your Car Make You Feel More Free?
GOOD

Crenshaw-LAX Rail Line Is Promising Jobs
Daily Breeze

Downtown NFL Stadium Project Accused Of Being Too Vague
Curbed LA

Editorial: Jeff Morales Has To Show Us The Bullet Train Will Work -- New Head Of Agency Must Persuade Wary Public
Long Beach Press-Telegram

Editorial: Rail Rush
Riverside Press-Enterprise

Expo Line's Culver City, Farmdale Stations Open June 20
Curbed LA

Expo Opens To Culver City On June 20
Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles County Supervisor, Third District

Going To Downtown Los Angeles? Leave Your Car At Home!
Gas 2

How To Ride The Expo Line For Free On June 20
LAist

LAX Construction Project To Disrupt Traffic Over Next Two Years
Los Angeles Times

LAX Construction Project: Traffic Affected Beginning Tuesday
KABC Los Angeles

Low-Stress Bicycling And Network Connectivity (84p. PDF)
Mineta Transportation Institute

New Zealand Bus Policy Model (102p. PDF : Explores a methodology and computer-based model designed to analyze the performance of urban bus services in terms of their operations, market indicators, and financial performance)
New Zealand Transport Agency

Once Again, It's All About How You Ask The Question (Was the recent LA Times poll showing a drop in support for high-speed rail a "push poll?")
California High-Speed Rail Blog

Passing A Transportation Bill Is Job One, Congress
Natural Resources Defense Council Switchboard Blog

Performance-Based Highway Maintenance And Operations Management (96p. PDF)
National Cooperative Highway Research Program

Ray Bradbury Dies At 91; Author Lifted Fantasy To Literary Heights (Bradbury was a champion of monorails for Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Times

Small Decrease In Driving = Huge Decrease In Congestion
League Of American Cyclists

Stakeholders Beg Conferees To Stop Acting Like Children
StreetsBlog DC

Top 10 Websites: 2012 ("Our annual list of the 10 best planning, design, and development websites represents some of the top online resources for news, information and research on the built environment.")
Planetizen

Training Of Traffic Incident Responders
(39p. PDF)
Strategic Highway Research Program


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