Alternate Strategies For Safety Improvement Investments (28p. PDF)
National Cooperative Highway Research Program
America's Layoff Capitals: Soaring Unemployment Rates In California, New York State Tops The List (California cities are 6 of the top 10, Los Angeles-Long Beach is #1)
ABC News
Bike To Work Week Kicks Off; Full Calendar Of Downtown Activities
Blog Downtown
Breaking News: Metro Reverses Rush Hour Ban On Bikes On Trains
StreetsBlog LA
California Transit Association 44th Annual Spring Legislative Conference (Sacramento : May 18-19)
California Transit Association
Capping The 101 - Big Dreamers Needed
Los Angeles Downtown News
City Hall To Add Over 170 Bike Racks Downtown
Santa Monica Daily Press
Cycling For Bike-Friendliness: Two-Wheelers Dominate Foothill Blvd. In An Effort To Promote Riding
Glendale News Press
Design For America: $40K Data Visualization Competition ("Sunlight Labs, a non-profit, non-partisan organization focused on the digitization of government data and the making of tools to make it easily accessible, has organized a unique competition to help nurture the field of information visualization in the context of government data.")
Information Aesthetics
DOT Aims To Prevent Rail Crew Distraction
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Fixing Public Transit In L.A. Requires Both A Carrot And A Stick (Third in a 3-part series on public transportation in the Southland)
Los Angeles Times
Fixes For L.A.'s Public Transit Woes (video)
Los Angeles Times via YouTube
In San Francisco: People, Parklets, And Pavement To Parks
StreetsBlog DC
Keeping An Eye On Our Roads (interview with Janet Kavinoky, head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's transportation infrastructure programs, as well as the Americans For Transportation Mobility campaign and Let's Rebuild America coalition)
DC Velocity
London's Big Red Double Decker Bus Reincarnated With Green Tech
Fast Company
Looking Ahead (telecommuting trends could have significant impacts on the built environment and the future of urban planning, including civic spaces and different transportation patterns)
The Atlantic
MTA's Bike Week L.A. Aims To Encourage Commuters To Bicycle More And Drive Less
Los Angeles Times
New Metro Bike Map For Los Angeles Area
On The Market: Homes Near Bike Paths
Los Angeles Times
Our Love-Hate Affair With The 405 Freeway
LA Observed
Parking Fines Could Go Up $5 Under New Budget Proposal
LAist
Redesigning The Bus Stop: Teague's Traffic 2.0 Makes Transit More Friendly
Fast Company
U.S. DOT Holding Five Public Meetings On Its National Rail Plan
StreetsBlog DC
You Can Do It: The No-Excuses Guide To Biking To Work
Bicycling
5/18/2010
5/17/2010
DIY Bike Signage, How We Commute, HSR, Train Etiquette & More
$100 Million Of Road Projects To Support "Evolution"
StreetsBlog LA
Amid Recession, Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank Consider Sharing Some City Services (including a bus service linking the three cities)
Los Angeles Times
Anaheim "Outfoxed" By San Francisco On High-Speed Rail
Voice Of OC
The Authentic City (A look at branding, and how some cities actively abandon what makes them unique in favor of what works for other cities, which only hurts their marketing efforts)
Urbanophile
Better Bikeways: Guerrilla Improvements And DIY Signage (A Los Angeles dream of turning 4th Street into a bike-friendly thoroughfare)
GOOD
Celebrations Throughout The County For Bike To Work Week
StreetsBlog LA
Council Approves Parking Rate Hike
Santa Monica Daily Press
Cyclists In La Crescenta Trying To Change Foothill Boulevard's Commuter-Centric Image
Los Angeles Times
Democratizing The Streets ("An unprecedented political consensus on rethinking roadways is belied by nasty clashes over how to pay for it.")
San Francisco Bay Guardian
From "The Voice Of Transportation," A Call For More Of The Same
Mobilizing The Region
How We Commute: Moving Into The "State Of Metropolitan America"
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Is Park-And-Ride A Bad Idea?
Reinventing Urban Transport
League Of Bicycling Voters LA Holds Inaugural Meeting
StreetsBlog LA
Mass Transit And A Public Works Pilgrimage To Hoover Dam ("Mass transit, Los Angeles and Hoover Dam - for me it's all about well conceived infrastructure and a vision of what is possible.")
Huffington Post
Moving To The Suburbs (video : Part 2 - Richard Florida explains why long commutes used to make sense - and why they no longer do)
Atlantic
Norco, Corona Differ Over High-Speed Rail Proposal
Riverside Press-Enterprise
On Privatization Nostalgia
Human Transit
Only Californians Have Veto Power Over The HSR Project
California High Speed Rail Blog
The Potential For Private Investment In Transit
StreetsBlog Network
Preservationists: Don't Change West's 1st Freeway
Associated Press
SVA Student Creates ViolationReport.Org To Shame Straphangers Into Changing Poor Train Etiquette
New York Daily News
Violation Report Website
Under Dodger Stadium And More: Latest High-Speed Railway Routes Through L.A. (includes several possible routing maps)
Curbed LA
StreetsBlog LA
Amid Recession, Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank Consider Sharing Some City Services (including a bus service linking the three cities)
Los Angeles Times
Anaheim "Outfoxed" By San Francisco On High-Speed Rail
Voice Of OC
The Authentic City (A look at branding, and how some cities actively abandon what makes them unique in favor of what works for other cities, which only hurts their marketing efforts)
Urbanophile
Better Bikeways: Guerrilla Improvements And DIY Signage (A Los Angeles dream of turning 4th Street into a bike-friendly thoroughfare)
GOOD
Celebrations Throughout The County For Bike To Work Week
StreetsBlog LA
Council Approves Parking Rate Hike
Santa Monica Daily Press
Cyclists In La Crescenta Trying To Change Foothill Boulevard's Commuter-Centric Image
Los Angeles Times
Democratizing The Streets ("An unprecedented political consensus on rethinking roadways is belied by nasty clashes over how to pay for it.")
San Francisco Bay Guardian
From "The Voice Of Transportation," A Call For More Of The Same
Mobilizing The Region
How We Commute: Moving Into The "State Of Metropolitan America"
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Is Park-And-Ride A Bad Idea?
Reinventing Urban Transport
League Of Bicycling Voters LA Holds Inaugural Meeting
StreetsBlog LA
Mass Transit And A Public Works Pilgrimage To Hoover Dam ("Mass transit, Los Angeles and Hoover Dam - for me it's all about well conceived infrastructure and a vision of what is possible.")
Huffington Post
Moving To The Suburbs (video : Part 2 - Richard Florida explains why long commutes used to make sense - and why they no longer do)
Atlantic
Norco, Corona Differ Over High-Speed Rail Proposal
Riverside Press-Enterprise
On Privatization Nostalgia
Human Transit
Only Californians Have Veto Power Over The HSR Project
California High Speed Rail Blog
The Potential For Private Investment In Transit
StreetsBlog Network
Preservationists: Don't Change West's 1st Freeway
Associated Press
SVA Student Creates ViolationReport.Org To Shame Straphangers Into Changing Poor Train Etiquette
New York Daily News
Violation Report Website
Under Dodger Stadium And More: Latest High-Speed Railway Routes Through L.A. (includes several possible routing maps)
Curbed LA
5/14/2010
Transportation Headlines for Friday May 14, 2010
ATA Sees 25% Freight Growth In Next Decade
Fleet Owner
City, County Officials Still Haggling On Universal Evolution Project; Traffic Remains Key Concern
LAist
Eco-Friendly Crop Sprouts On Side Of The Road (State and local governments spend money to mow and spray for weeds on as many as 10 million acres of highway rights of way. A Utah pilot project demonstrates the economic viability of using the land for crops to make biodiesel fuel)
USA Today
Fixes Needed For L.A. Public Transit System: Among Them, Adopt A Regional Approach, Make Transit More Convenient And Create More Online Resources
Los Angeles Times
In India, Hitching Hopes On A Subway
New York Times
Inland Receives Its Share Of State Transit Bond Money
Riverside Press-Enterprise
LA Supervisors Approve Rules For Hearings On Universal Studios
Los Angeles Daily News
Opening Of Angeles Crest Highway Delayed To Summer
LAist
Paint Attack: Coloring Traffic Patterns With Paint
Information Aesthetics
Pedal-Pushing Progress: A Plan To Make Pasadena More Bicycle-Friendly Than It Already Is
Pasadena Weekly
A Peek At Placing A Park Over The 101 Freeway In Downtown L.A. (includes several detailed maps)
LAist
Redevelopment Agencies Turn $1.7 Billion Over To State
Sacramento Bee
Saturday Is A Two For One Day For Transit Advocates
StreetsBlog LA
Specter Of Gas Tax Lingers As Rendell, Villaraigosa Push Infrastructure Bank
StreetsBlog DC
Tustin On Its Way To Silencing Train Horns
Orange County Register
Vegas Train War! Another L.A.-To-Vegas Train Will Get Gamblers There Slower, But Drunker (includes photos from inside the planned Party Train)
Fast Company
X Train Website
Walking Into The Future City: Or, Dispatches From A Pedestrian Lovefest
StreetsBlog LA
What's Happening At This Week's "League Of Bicycling Voters" Meeting
StreetsBlog LA
Why Not Woo The Masses To Mass Transit? (audio : David Lazarus)
American Public Media Marketplace
Wrap Up: Metro's Pedestrian Symposium & Bicycle Roundtable
UCLA Be A Green Commuter!
Fleet Owner
City, County Officials Still Haggling On Universal Evolution Project; Traffic Remains Key Concern
LAist
Eco-Friendly Crop Sprouts On Side Of The Road (State and local governments spend money to mow and spray for weeds on as many as 10 million acres of highway rights of way. A Utah pilot project demonstrates the economic viability of using the land for crops to make biodiesel fuel)
USA Today
Fixes Needed For L.A. Public Transit System: Among Them, Adopt A Regional Approach, Make Transit More Convenient And Create More Online Resources
Los Angeles Times
In India, Hitching Hopes On A Subway
New York Times
Inland Receives Its Share Of State Transit Bond Money
Riverside Press-Enterprise
LA Supervisors Approve Rules For Hearings On Universal Studios
Los Angeles Daily News
Opening Of Angeles Crest Highway Delayed To Summer
LAist
Paint Attack: Coloring Traffic Patterns With Paint
Information Aesthetics
Pedal-Pushing Progress: A Plan To Make Pasadena More Bicycle-Friendly Than It Already Is
Pasadena Weekly
A Peek At Placing A Park Over The 101 Freeway In Downtown L.A. (includes several detailed maps)
LAist
Redevelopment Agencies Turn $1.7 Billion Over To State
Sacramento Bee
Saturday Is A Two For One Day For Transit Advocates
StreetsBlog LA
Specter Of Gas Tax Lingers As Rendell, Villaraigosa Push Infrastructure Bank
StreetsBlog DC
Tustin On Its Way To Silencing Train Horns
Orange County Register
Vegas Train War! Another L.A.-To-Vegas Train Will Get Gamblers There Slower, But Drunker (includes photos from inside the planned Party Train)
Fast Company
X Train Website
Walking Into The Future City: Or, Dispatches From A Pedestrian Lovefest
StreetsBlog LA
What's Happening At This Week's "League Of Bicycling Voters" Meeting
StreetsBlog LA
Why Not Woo The Masses To Mass Transit? (audio : David Lazarus)
American Public Media Marketplace
Wrap Up: Metro's Pedestrian Symposium & Bicycle Roundtable
UCLA Be A Green Commuter!
5/13/2010
Transportation Headines for Thursday, May 13, 2010
2 Reports Forecast Jump In Port Shipments
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Are Free And Low Cost Transfers The Key To Fixing Metro's Operations Mess?
StreetsBlog LA
Blue Skies Forecast For L.A. Trade
LA Weekly
Can Local Buses "Stimulate" Development?
Human Transit
China Is Pulling Ahead In Worldwide Race For High-Speed Rail Transportation
Washington Post
Could High Speed Rail Stall Completely In The U.S.?
Infrastructurist
County Invites Community To Give Input On Bicycle Master Plan
LAist
Cul-De-Sac Hell And The Radius Of Demand
Human Transit
Drivers, Bicyclists Clash On Road Sharing
CNN
Here Comes The Neighborhood ("In cities and suburbs alike, walkable neighborhoods linked by train are the future. Here’s how a new network of privately funded rail lines can make that future come to pass more quickly and cheaply—and help reinvigorate housing and the economy.")
Atlantic
In The Age Of Electric Cars, Who Pays For Highways?
Grist
Japan Laying Down Track To Market High-Speed Rail In U.S.
Manichi Daily News
Lawmakers Demand California High-Speed Rail Authority Fix Oversight, Funding Problems
Mass Transit
NBC Opens Its Doors For "Community Meeting" On NoHo Development
StreetsBlog LA
Paris' Plan To Kick Cars Off Its Riverbanks
Time
Proposal Would Park A Park On Top Of Downtown L.A. Freeway (Officials say it's a promising approach, but "not a project" yet)
Los Angeles Times
Senate Climate Bill Would Send $6B-Plus To Cleaner Transportation
StreetsBlog DC
State DOT Official, Rail Exec Talk High-Speed Rail Infighting, Bureaucracy
StreetsBlog DC
Villaraigosa In D.C. To Lobby For Federal Help On Mass Transit Projects
Los Angeles Times
When The Media Gets It Right - By Riding The Shinkansen
California High Speed Rail Blog
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Are Free And Low Cost Transfers The Key To Fixing Metro's Operations Mess?
StreetsBlog LA
Blue Skies Forecast For L.A. Trade
LA Weekly
Can Local Buses "Stimulate" Development?
Human Transit
China Is Pulling Ahead In Worldwide Race For High-Speed Rail Transportation
Washington Post
Could High Speed Rail Stall Completely In The U.S.?
Infrastructurist
County Invites Community To Give Input On Bicycle Master Plan
LAist
Cul-De-Sac Hell And The Radius Of Demand
Human Transit
Drivers, Bicyclists Clash On Road Sharing
CNN
Here Comes The Neighborhood ("In cities and suburbs alike, walkable neighborhoods linked by train are the future. Here’s how a new network of privately funded rail lines can make that future come to pass more quickly and cheaply—and help reinvigorate housing and the economy.")
Atlantic
In The Age Of Electric Cars, Who Pays For Highways?
Grist
Japan Laying Down Track To Market High-Speed Rail In U.S.
Manichi Daily News
Lawmakers Demand California High-Speed Rail Authority Fix Oversight, Funding Problems
Mass Transit
NBC Opens Its Doors For "Community Meeting" On NoHo Development
StreetsBlog LA
Paris' Plan To Kick Cars Off Its Riverbanks
Time
Proposal Would Park A Park On Top Of Downtown L.A. Freeway (Officials say it's a promising approach, but "not a project" yet)
Los Angeles Times
Senate Climate Bill Would Send $6B-Plus To Cleaner Transportation
StreetsBlog DC
State DOT Official, Rail Exec Talk High-Speed Rail Infighting, Bureaucracy
StreetsBlog DC
Villaraigosa In D.C. To Lobby For Federal Help On Mass Transit Projects
Los Angeles Times
When The Media Gets It Right - By Riding The Shinkansen
California High Speed Rail Blog
5/12/2010
Transportation Headlines for Wednesday May 12, 2010
Advisory Service Panel For LA's Cleantech Corridor (May 16-21, 2010 : Panelists will spend 5 days in Los Angeles meeting with stakeholders and touring the subject area. They will interview up to 100 individuals in private interviews. They will spend two days framing recommendations, writing a draft report and preparing a presentation. The final presentation will be made on May 21, 2010 at the Kyoto Grand Hotel)
Urban Land Institute
Clean-Tech Corridor Detailed Map
Ambitious Park 101 Project Proposes Small First Step At Union Station
Blog Downtown
Can Local Buses "Stimulate" Development?
Human Transit
Car-Sharing On Steroids?
Reinventing Urban Transport
Electric Transit Backpack Lets You Fly Through City Streets (Remember the Bulgarian architect who created Kolelinia? He has come up with yet another crazy form of transportation - this time it’s a backpack harness system with a network of wires strung all over the city)
Inhabitat
Flying Bicycle Lane Lets You Soar Above Traffic (a look back at Kolelinia)
Inhabitat
Exploring The Science Behind Traffic Lights
Boston Globe
First Lady's Childhood Obesity Task Force Calls For Transportation Plan
StreetsBlog DC
Hail-A-Taxi Program Likely To Go Permanent, Possibly Citywide
LAist
High-Speed Rail Lobbying Campaign Revives The "$4B" Rallying Cry
StreetsBlog DC
The New "Cool" For Eastside Kids? (surge in bicycling on L.A.'s Eastside)
LA Eastside
New Parking Meters Mean Demand-Based Pricing Is On The Way
LAist
Not A Sidewalk To Walk On Or A Leg To Stand On
CityWatch
Park 101's Freeway Lid For A Walkable Downtown Los Angeles
StreetsBlog LA
SCAG To ARB: 7-9% GHG Reduction Possible
California Planning & Development Report
Senate Climate Bill To Feature Transport Carbon Cap - But Not Trading
StreetsBlog DC
Union Pacific Vows To Fight High-Speed Rail
Mass Transit
U.S. DOT Allocates $527 Million To Support Partnership For Sustainable Communities In FY11
Smart Growth Online
Who Will Intervene With The Legislature And Media?
California High Speed Rail Blog
Your LA To Vegas Party Train Will Start Rolling Next Year
Curbed LA
5/11/2010
Transportation Headlines for Tuesday May 11, 2010
Art Of The MetroCard, Unlimited
New York Times
Better Meters, Increased Cost Comes To The Downtown, Backlash Begins
StreetsBlog LA
City Planners Track Cyclists, Pedestrians To Measure Trail Needs ("According to the most recent U.S. Census figures, the number of adults who bicycled to work in 2008 was 786,098, up 26% from 2006. Mindful of that growth, transportation planners in states and municipalities across the USA are increasingly deploying high-tech sensors along bicycle and pedestrian paths to map trail, sidewalk and bike-lane use and assess future needs.")
USA Today
Colton Crossing Project Gets Help ("A $202 million railroad grade separation project is now closer than ever to becoming reality after it earned tentative support from the final holdout members of a regional transportation group.")
Contra Costa Times
The Costs Of Low Transit Fares
Santa Monica Lookout
Dubai Metro's Punctuality Exceeds That Of All Rivals (Dubai moves 80,000 people a day in the first 6 months of rail service with over 99% on-time performance)
Gulf News
EU Steers Its Way Towards Intelligent Transport Systems
EU Business
Fare Increase Won't Fix Public Transit: Transit Agencies Should Work Harder To Attract New Riders Rather Than Further Squeezing The Ones They Have
Los Angeles Times
Fate Of Trolleybuses Hangs In Balance (King County Metro Transit's fleet of 159 electric trolleybuses needs to be replaced soon, but what they should be replaced with is up for debate)
Seattle Times
Seattle: The End Of Trolleybuses?
Human Transit
The First Step Is Admitting You Have A Problem ("Curt Pringle, in his capacity as chairman of California's High Speed Rail Authority, sat down last week with two of the state's most influential legislators on transportation issues and went through what can be best described as an intervention.")
Voice Of OC
Hidden In The Tax Code, A Potential Surplus Of Transportation Funds
Next American City
High-Speed Rail Exec's Fast Track To Premium Pay
San Francisco Chronicle
High-Speed Rail May Stall Without More Push From The White House
Progressive Fix
How Geeks Get Us Around Town: Transit-App Developers Are Proving Orwell Wrong
Wall Street Journal
IBM And Texas Transportation Institute To Collaborate On Intelligent Transportation Systems
Texas Transportation Institute
IBM Smarter Transportation Website
Keeping Up With Public Transportation Research From TRB: Finding Publications, Conferences, Hearings, And RSS Feeds
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
MassDOT Developers: NYC MTA Says "Beat Boston!"
Commonwealth Conversations: Massachusetts DOT Blog
Metro "Leaks" The Date For CicLAvia
StreetsBlog LA
My Favorite Transit Apps
Information Week
OCTA Lowers Fines For Toll Violators
Orange County Register
Smart Phones + Shared Cars = Better Urban Living
New Urban News
Speeding Up Transportation Reformation
UCLA Daily Bruin
The State Of Metropolitan America ("A new seven-category typology of metropolitan America: next frontier, new heartland, diverse giant, border growth, mid-sized magnet, skilled anchors, industrial cores.")
Brookings Institution
Executive Summary (4p. PDF)
Full-Text Report, Part 1 (77p. PDF)
Full-Text Report, Part 2 (95p. PDF)
Train Plans Sound Familiar? One Side Says Too Similar
Las Vegas Sun
Wave Goodbye To W And V In Subway Signs; Make Room For More M (Disappearing trains and redrawn routes will render thousands of existing signs and maps throughout New York's transit system obsolete, a hidden cost of drastic service cuts. 3,000 signs and 25,000 maps must be switched out in a two-week period.)
New York Times
White House Proposes Lowering Barriers To Rail, Airline Unionizing
StreetsBlog DC
New York Times
Better Meters, Increased Cost Comes To The Downtown, Backlash Begins
StreetsBlog LA
City Planners Track Cyclists, Pedestrians To Measure Trail Needs ("According to the most recent U.S. Census figures, the number of adults who bicycled to work in 2008 was 786,098, up 26% from 2006. Mindful of that growth, transportation planners in states and municipalities across the USA are increasingly deploying high-tech sensors along bicycle and pedestrian paths to map trail, sidewalk and bike-lane use and assess future needs.")
USA Today
Colton Crossing Project Gets Help ("A $202 million railroad grade separation project is now closer than ever to becoming reality after it earned tentative support from the final holdout members of a regional transportation group.")
Contra Costa Times
The Costs Of Low Transit Fares
Santa Monica Lookout
Dubai Metro's Punctuality Exceeds That Of All Rivals (Dubai moves 80,000 people a day in the first 6 months of rail service with over 99% on-time performance)
Gulf News
EU Steers Its Way Towards Intelligent Transport Systems
EU Business
Fare Increase Won't Fix Public Transit: Transit Agencies Should Work Harder To Attract New Riders Rather Than Further Squeezing The Ones They Have
Los Angeles Times
Fate Of Trolleybuses Hangs In Balance (King County Metro Transit's fleet of 159 electric trolleybuses needs to be replaced soon, but what they should be replaced with is up for debate)
Seattle Times
Seattle: The End Of Trolleybuses?
Human Transit
The First Step Is Admitting You Have A Problem ("Curt Pringle, in his capacity as chairman of California's High Speed Rail Authority, sat down last week with two of the state's most influential legislators on transportation issues and went through what can be best described as an intervention.")
Voice Of OC
Hidden In The Tax Code, A Potential Surplus Of Transportation Funds
Next American City
High-Speed Rail Exec's Fast Track To Premium Pay
San Francisco Chronicle
High-Speed Rail May Stall Without More Push From The White House
Progressive Fix
How Geeks Get Us Around Town: Transit-App Developers Are Proving Orwell Wrong
Wall Street Journal
IBM And Texas Transportation Institute To Collaborate On Intelligent Transportation Systems
Texas Transportation Institute
IBM Smarter Transportation Website
Keeping Up With Public Transportation Research From TRB: Finding Publications, Conferences, Hearings, And RSS Feeds
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
MassDOT Developers: NYC MTA Says "Beat Boston!"
Commonwealth Conversations: Massachusetts DOT Blog
Metro "Leaks" The Date For CicLAvia
StreetsBlog LA
My Favorite Transit Apps
Information Week
OCTA Lowers Fines For Toll Violators
Orange County Register
Smart Phones + Shared Cars = Better Urban Living
New Urban News
Speeding Up Transportation Reformation
UCLA Daily Bruin
The State Of Metropolitan America ("A new seven-category typology of metropolitan America: next frontier, new heartland, diverse giant, border growth, mid-sized magnet, skilled anchors, industrial cores.")
Brookings Institution
Executive Summary (4p. PDF)
Full-Text Report, Part 1 (77p. PDF)
Full-Text Report, Part 2 (95p. PDF)
Train Plans Sound Familiar? One Side Says Too Similar
Las Vegas Sun
Wave Goodbye To W And V In Subway Signs; Make Room For More M (Disappearing trains and redrawn routes will render thousands of existing signs and maps throughout New York's transit system obsolete, a hidden cost of drastic service cuts. 3,000 signs and 25,000 maps must be switched out in a two-week period.)
New York Times
White House Proposes Lowering Barriers To Rail, Airline Unionizing
StreetsBlog DC
5/10/2010
Transportation Headlines for Monday May 10, 2010
Are Pedestrian Malls The Future Or The Relic Of Antiquated Thinking?
Next American City
Backroom Politics And The Expo Line
LA Observed
California Offiicials Debate Usng Traffic Cameras To Help Close The State Budget Deficit
Government Technology
CicLAvia Has 12 "Sadik-Khan" Type Projects For L.A.: What Are Yours?
StreetsBlog LA
City Planning's Opportunity To Re-Make Los Angeles' Streets
StreetsBlog LA
Coastal Shipping: A Potential Solution To The Challenges Of A Growing Freight Sector
Environmental Defense Fund Way2Go Blog
Congress Must Be Careful When Addressing Rail Policy
The Hill
Dreaming Of Downtown's Central Park: Another Go-Round In The Effort To Cap The 101 Freeway In The Civic Center
Los Angeles Downtown News
Dump The Pump Day Is June 17 (toolkit includes links to media advisory, suggested activities, fact sheets, proclamation for elected officials, proclamation for boards, logo)
APTA
Gas Prices Jump To Highest Level Since 2008
CBS-2
Getting To Disney On Taxpayer Dollars? L.A. Audit Says Transit Funding Should Be Re-Examined
LAist
Hey Westside, 20 Months Of Traffic Hell Begins Tonight
LAist
Historic Train Chugs Into San Bernardino
Riverside Press-Enterprise
How 30/10 Could Give Us A Reason To Give It Up For Goldman Sachs
Huffington Post
How Cul-De-Sacs Are Killing Your Community
Infrastructurist
James Rojas: The City As Play
Dr. Pop
L.A. May Stop Footing Bills For Sidewalk And Driveway Repairs
Los Angeles Times
Left-Turn Bus Accidents, Like Fatal One In Downtown Portland, Alarmingly Common Among Transit Agencies
Oregonian
Los Angeles Chinatown Then And Now
Los Angeles Times
New Numbers For Data-Hungry Straphangers
New York Times
Parking Enforcement: Still Violating Laws (LADOT)
Discarted
Parking Rates Go Up, Cities Make Bucks ("Nobody likes paying for parking, but with city budgets tightening more municipalities are eying the parking meter as a source of new funds." Includes a look at successful peak-hour parking pricing programs in New York City)
American Public Media
Prime-Time Parking Rates Coming To Downtown L.A.
LA Observed
Reinventing The Public Meeting (Videoconferencing could revolutionize the public meeting because the entire proceedings could be broken up and digitized, along with public comment submitted via video prior to decisions being made)
Next American City
Santa Barbara's First Annual Bicycle Fashion Show
Bike San Diego
To Serve Mobility Needs Of Older Americans, Public Transit To Need Additional $3.9 Billion Annually By 2030 According To New Study
APTA
Funding The Public Transportation Needs Of An Aging Population (57p. PDF)
APTA
Train Buffs Celebrate National Train Day At LA's Union Station
Southern California Public Radio
Transit Cuts Announced: Among Them, Announcers
New York Times
U.S. DOT Proposes Giving Minority-Owned Firms Greater Shot At Contracts
StreetsBlog DC
Why We Pay To Use A Public Highway
Orange County Register
Will They Change Elections? Cyclists Form The League Of Bicycling Voters LA
LAist
League Of Bicycling Voters Los Angeles Website
Next American City
Backroom Politics And The Expo Line
LA Observed
California Offiicials Debate Usng Traffic Cameras To Help Close The State Budget Deficit
Government Technology
CicLAvia Has 12 "Sadik-Khan" Type Projects For L.A.: What Are Yours?
StreetsBlog LA
City Planning's Opportunity To Re-Make Los Angeles' Streets
StreetsBlog LA
Coastal Shipping: A Potential Solution To The Challenges Of A Growing Freight Sector
Environmental Defense Fund Way2Go Blog
Congress Must Be Careful When Addressing Rail Policy
The Hill
Dreaming Of Downtown's Central Park: Another Go-Round In The Effort To Cap The 101 Freeway In The Civic Center
Los Angeles Downtown News
Dump The Pump Day Is June 17 (toolkit includes links to media advisory, suggested activities, fact sheets, proclamation for elected officials, proclamation for boards, logo)
APTA
Gas Prices Jump To Highest Level Since 2008
CBS-2
Getting To Disney On Taxpayer Dollars? L.A. Audit Says Transit Funding Should Be Re-Examined
LAist
Hey Westside, 20 Months Of Traffic Hell Begins Tonight
LAist
Historic Train Chugs Into San Bernardino
Riverside Press-Enterprise
How 30/10 Could Give Us A Reason To Give It Up For Goldman Sachs
Huffington Post
How Cul-De-Sacs Are Killing Your Community
Infrastructurist
James Rojas: The City As Play
Dr. Pop
L.A. May Stop Footing Bills For Sidewalk And Driveway Repairs
Los Angeles Times
Left-Turn Bus Accidents, Like Fatal One In Downtown Portland, Alarmingly Common Among Transit Agencies
Oregonian
Los Angeles Chinatown Then And Now
Los Angeles Times
New Numbers For Data-Hungry Straphangers
New York Times
Parking Enforcement: Still Violating Laws (LADOT)
Discarted
Parking Rates Go Up, Cities Make Bucks ("Nobody likes paying for parking, but with city budgets tightening more municipalities are eying the parking meter as a source of new funds." Includes a look at successful peak-hour parking pricing programs in New York City)
American Public Media
Prime-Time Parking Rates Coming To Downtown L.A.
LA Observed
Reinventing The Public Meeting (Videoconferencing could revolutionize the public meeting because the entire proceedings could be broken up and digitized, along with public comment submitted via video prior to decisions being made)
Next American City
Santa Barbara's First Annual Bicycle Fashion Show
Bike San Diego
To Serve Mobility Needs Of Older Americans, Public Transit To Need Additional $3.9 Billion Annually By 2030 According To New Study
APTA
Funding The Public Transportation Needs Of An Aging Population (57p. PDF)
APTA
Train Buffs Celebrate National Train Day At LA's Union Station
Southern California Public Radio
Transit Cuts Announced: Among Them, Announcers
New York Times
U.S. DOT Proposes Giving Minority-Owned Firms Greater Shot At Contracts
StreetsBlog DC
Why We Pay To Use A Public Highway
Orange County Register
Will They Change Elections? Cyclists Form The League Of Bicycling Voters LA
LAist
League Of Bicycling Voters Los Angeles Website
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