August 15: This Date In Los Angeles Transportation History (Division 9 is born)
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
710 Freeway traffic figures doubted
Glendale News Press
Advice for Passing a Massive Infrastructure Referendum
The Atlantic: Cities
Airline cites ONT's prohibitive costs for not moving flights there
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Brazil: $69B in transport investments by 2014
CBS News
Getting America’s Freight Back on the Move: A Plan for Investing in Our Freight Infrastructure
Center for American Progress
High-speed rail forum brings together contractors, small businesses
Fresno Bee
How Paul Ryan’s Budget Would Further Undermine America’s Crumbling Infrastructure
Think Progress
LA Cars Are Burning Cleaner: Some Pollutants Down 98 Percent
CurbedLA
L.A. officials move to reduce parking requirements in parts of the city
Los Angeles Times
LA's Got Lines! (music video on Metro rail and fixed guideway system)
YouTube
Longtime Valley activist Ruth Richter, who owned motorcycle shop in Winnetka, dies at 89
Daily News
(former SCRTD Board Member, pictured here at the MetroRail groundbreaking. Read more on page 2 of this June 1976 edition of Headway Newsmagazine, Ruth Ricther: A Lady in Transportation)
Muni’s all-door boarding reduces dwell time
he Transit Wire
Opportunity to share opinions on railway to Redlands extended
San Bernardino Sun
Residents show disdain for 710 plans on social media sites
Pasadena Sun
Riverside Transit: Bus system wants to shrink reliance on Dial-A-Ride
Press Enterprise
Sin City Express: Loan might make dream of high-speed train to Las Vegas a reality
Whittier Daily News
Streetcar Plans Plow Ahead: Cities Use Federal Funding to Back New Routes but Some Call Projects a Waste
Wall Street Journal
Union Pacific to Test 25 Cleaner Experimental Locomotives in California
Tree Hugger
Updated: Pasadena City Council unanimously votes to oppose 710 extension routes
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
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