26 Years Ago: Updated Pershing Square Rededicated
Blog Downtown
150th Anniversary Of First Market St. Rail Line (The Market Street Railroad was dirty, noisy and ultimately a financial flop, but it started something in a city known for streetcars)
San Francisco Chronicle
Amtrak Going Bike-Friendly: Bike To The Train, And Vice-Versa!
Infrastructurist
Are You For/Against Closing Street Segments?
Planetizen
At The Wheel: Art Leahy, Boss Of The MTA, Says Getting Around Should Be No Problem: Just Leave Your Car At Home
Los Angeles Magazine
Blue Line At 20: Welcoming The First Metro Rail Project And Its Continued Success (Part II of anniversary commemoration includes photo and video links, opening festivities and inaugural ridership numbers)
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Chicago And New York Score Big Bucks For BRT
Architect's Newspaper
Crews Test Soil For Light Rail
Santa Monica Daily Press
Equation: Factors For Predicting Phantom Traffic Jams
Wired
Growing Freight Demands Reaching Crisis, AASHTO Study Says
The Trucker
Hahn Succeeds DeLong As ACTA Chairman (Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority)
Progressive Railroading
The Incredible Shrinking Crime Rate: Downtown Crime Drops 10% In First Half Of 2010, Outpacing Goal
Los Angeles Downtown News
Interview With Tom LaBonge
LADOT Bike Blog
It's Finally Here!: It's Taken Nearly Two Decades, But Intelligent Transportation System Technology Is Beginning To Exert An Influence
Better Roads
Laying Tracks: L.A. Business Titans Get Behind Downtown Streetcars
Los Angeles Business Journal
Metro Proposes December 2010 Service Changes
MetroRider LA
Metrolink Ridership Continues To Drop In OC
Voice Of OC
The Relationship, Bus Driver And Passenger
Plus Metro
Report: Roads Laced With Titanium Dioxide Could Help Us Breathe Easier
Auto Blog Green
This Week's Transportation Committee: Focus On A Progressive Van Nuys
StreetsBlog LA
Travel Car-Free This Summer
Your Daily Thread
UCLA, USC & Local Companies Win Federal Money For Clean Energy Research
LAist
A Walker's Guide To Home Buying: Traffic Jams And Aging Boomers Spur A Focus On Walking Distance
Wall Street Journal
What About A New Transportation Policy, President Obama?
Rail Passenger Association Of California & Nevada
Will SB 375 Help Achieve The Governor's Vision For California?
Natural Resources Defense Council
7/13/2010
7/12/2010
Gold Line Wins Award, Blue Line Upgrades, Bikes And Airports, Whitman And Brown On HSR, BRT Brilliance & More
Accounting For The Economic Payoff Of Streetcars And Buses
StreetsBlog DC
Advocates: High-Speed Rail Tunnel Could Ruin Park
KSWT-13
Arcadia Gold Line Station Relocated -- Slightly
Arcadia Weekly
Art On Track: Public Art Meets Public Transportation
GOOD
Art On Track Website
Art On Track Flickr Photo Collection From 2008 & 2009 Exhibitions
Bicycling Isn't Recreation, It's Transportation (Bicycle access paths to airports for true inter-modal integration)
The L Magazine
Bridge Over Untroubled Waters: Glendale Looks To Build Pedestrian Bridge To Griffith Park
Glendale News Press
California High Speed Rail Authority Opts To Ignore Ridership Problems
San Francisco Chronicle
California Labor Federation On Whitman's HSR Stance
California High Speed Rail Blog
California Low-Speed Rail
Riding In Riverside
A Closer Look At Go511
UCLA Be A Green Commuter!
Do You Read These Planning Magazines?
Planetizen
Eastside Gold Line Extension Earns Construction Award
EGP News
Expo Phase II Work Underway, MTA Chief Talks Cost Control
Curbed LA
Finally, Bike Branding Moves Beyond Hipster Ghetto
Fast Company
Bikes Belong Coalition
People For Bikes
Foothill Transit Tests First Electric Bus
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Here's Something More Important Than The Mayoral Free Tickets (30/10 funding)
LA Observed
High-Speed Train May Share Metrolink Tracks
Orange County Register
Hollywood And Mass Transit: Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?
Huffington Post
In Search Of A Monument That Says "L.A." ("The freeway in Southern California is for the most part "an artistic wasteland...Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley created a West Coast Gateway Committee to solicit designs for a cultural monument that would stretch across the Hollywood Freeway downtown.")
Los Angeles Times
Individuals Save $9,343 By Riding Transit Annually
Public Transportation Takes Us There
Japan May Target California Next In High-Speed Rail Sales Bid
Business Week
[New York] MTA "Card" Game: $1 Fee Eyed For Each New Metro Pass (They litter almost every subway entrance - the ubiquitous, value-exhausted-yet-refillable plastic MetroCards. Now New York MTA has devised a simple, revenue-producing measure that would reduce the litter)
New York Post
Opinion: What's Wrong With This Picture? There Are So Many Problems With The Concept Of Selling Digital Ads On Car License Plates That It's Amazing The Idea Has Gotten This Far
Los Angeles Times
Port Operations Can Improve Without An Act Of Congress
Daily Breeze
Rail Against The Machine: What's So Conservative About Federal Highways? (8p. PDF)
American Conservative via Transportation For America
The Reverse Commute: The Obama Administration Is Trying To Rein In Suburban Sprawl. But Is It Any Match For 70 Years Of Unsustainable Development?
American Prospect
Sustainable Communities: Live Event With HUD, DOT and EPA (July 15)
Planetizen
Spotlight On The World Cup: Brazil Gears Up For Games With Urban Transit Investments (As the 2010 FIFA World Cup Tournament in South Africa winds down, Brazil's federal, state, and local governments are already set to spend US $6.48 Billion in "urban mobility infrastructure" for 2014 - and that doesn't include private investment. Includes artistic renderings of projects)
The City Fix
"Transit-Enlightened Cities" Showcase BRT's Brilliance
The City Fix
Upgrade Work Begins For Blue Line: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority On Saturday Began Replacing 20 Aging Traction Power Substations And Electrical Support Systems, Thanks To A $71 Million Grant From Federal Stimulus Funds
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Whitman, Brown On Opposite Sides Of High-Speed Rail Tracks
San Jose Mercury News
StreetsBlog DC
Advocates: High-Speed Rail Tunnel Could Ruin Park
KSWT-13
Arcadia Gold Line Station Relocated -- Slightly
Arcadia Weekly
Art On Track: Public Art Meets Public Transportation
GOOD
Art On Track Website
Art On Track Flickr Photo Collection From 2008 & 2009 Exhibitions
Bicycling Isn't Recreation, It's Transportation (Bicycle access paths to airports for true inter-modal integration)
The L Magazine
Bridge Over Untroubled Waters: Glendale Looks To Build Pedestrian Bridge To Griffith Park
Glendale News Press
California High Speed Rail Authority Opts To Ignore Ridership Problems
San Francisco Chronicle
California Labor Federation On Whitman's HSR Stance
California High Speed Rail Blog
California Low-Speed Rail
Riding In Riverside
A Closer Look At Go511
UCLA Be A Green Commuter!
Do You Read These Planning Magazines?
Planetizen
Eastside Gold Line Extension Earns Construction Award
EGP News
Expo Phase II Work Underway, MTA Chief Talks Cost Control
Curbed LA
Finally, Bike Branding Moves Beyond Hipster Ghetto
Fast Company
Bikes Belong Coalition
People For Bikes
Foothill Transit Tests First Electric Bus
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Here's Something More Important Than The Mayoral Free Tickets (30/10 funding)
LA Observed
High-Speed Train May Share Metrolink Tracks
Orange County Register
Hollywood And Mass Transit: Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?
Huffington Post
In Search Of A Monument That Says "L.A." ("The freeway in Southern California is for the most part "an artistic wasteland...Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley created a West Coast Gateway Committee to solicit designs for a cultural monument that would stretch across the Hollywood Freeway downtown.")
Los Angeles Times
Individuals Save $9,343 By Riding Transit Annually
Public Transportation Takes Us There
Japan May Target California Next In High-Speed Rail Sales Bid
Business Week
[New York] MTA "Card" Game: $1 Fee Eyed For Each New Metro Pass (They litter almost every subway entrance - the ubiquitous, value-exhausted-yet-refillable plastic MetroCards. Now New York MTA has devised a simple, revenue-producing measure that would reduce the litter)
New York Post
Opinion: What's Wrong With This Picture? There Are So Many Problems With The Concept Of Selling Digital Ads On Car License Plates That It's Amazing The Idea Has Gotten This Far
Los Angeles Times
Port Operations Can Improve Without An Act Of Congress
Daily Breeze
Rail Against The Machine: What's So Conservative About Federal Highways? (8p. PDF)
American Conservative via Transportation For America
The Reverse Commute: The Obama Administration Is Trying To Rein In Suburban Sprawl. But Is It Any Match For 70 Years Of Unsustainable Development?
American Prospect
Sustainable Communities: Live Event With HUD, DOT and EPA (July 15)
Planetizen
Spotlight On The World Cup: Brazil Gears Up For Games With Urban Transit Investments (As the 2010 FIFA World Cup Tournament in South Africa winds down, Brazil's federal, state, and local governments are already set to spend US $6.48 Billion in "urban mobility infrastructure" for 2014 - and that doesn't include private investment. Includes artistic renderings of projects)
The City Fix
"Transit-Enlightened Cities" Showcase BRT's Brilliance
The City Fix
Upgrade Work Begins For Blue Line: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority On Saturday Began Replacing 20 Aging Traction Power Substations And Electrical Support Systems, Thanks To A $71 Million Grant From Federal Stimulus Funds
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Whitman, Brown On Opposite Sides Of High-Speed Rail Tracks
San Jose Mercury News
7/09/2010
Blue Line At 20, HSR Shared Tracks, Broadway Streetcar, Making TOD A Reality & More
Blue Line At 20: Looking Back At Early Service Between Los Angeles And Long Beach (1902-1961)
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Boyle Heights Farmers Market Debuts (Starts today and continues every Friday 3pm - 8pm, at Mariachi Plaza Metro Gold Line Station)
NBC Los Angeles
Boyle Heights Farmers Market On Facebook
Broadway Streetcar Loses Out On Federal Funding: Only Six Of 65 Applicants Get Money As Los Angeles Misses $25 Million Proposal
Los Angeles Downtown News
California High-Speed Rail Authority Okays Study Of Shared-Track Option On Los Angeles To Anaheim Run
PR Newswire
Car-Dependent States Hit Hardest By Obesity Epidemic
StreetsBlog DC
EPA Declares L.A. River "Traditional Navigable Waters"
Los Angeles Times
Feds Announce Winners Of $293 Million In Transit Grants
StreetsBlog DC
Complete Project List: Urban Circulator/Bus And Bus Livability Projects Descriptions
U.S. Federal Transit Administration
A Friendly Note From Me To Metro ("Three humble suggestions for things you can do with my extra 25 cents a ride.")
Blogging L.A.
Happy Endings: Judge Rules Traffic Calming Measures Put Back In Holmby-Westwood
StreetsBlog LA
High-Speed Rail Board Takes No Action On Ridership Issue
Voice Of OC
How Much New Vitality Would The Downtown Business Community Enjoy If Streetcars Started Running Again? (poll)
Los Angeles Business Journal
Mobile Apps Work To Make Walking Safer
The City Fix
Most Liveable City: Munich (video : "Munich is a place where wealth and prosperity are reinvested in transport, infrastructure and environmental initiatives.")
Monocle
New Clearinghouse Of Worldwide Transit Research (Monash University, Victoria, Australia)
Transit Wire
World Transit Research Website
New Transit Solutions Promise Jobs Now, Livability Gains For Years To Come
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Now, System That Locates, Guides Drivers To Car Park Spaces
Sify News
Opinion: Keep Fighting To Stop 710 Tunnel
La Canada Valley Sun
Plan For Ads At Riverside County Train Stations On Track
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Santa Monica Likely To Vote On Increasing Sales Tax To 10.25%
LAist
Should Cities Be Run Like Software?
Infrastructurist
Sidestepping Voter Intent By Siphoning Off Gas Taxes?
Orange County Register
Streetcar Planned For Downtown Not Included In Latest Round Of Federal Funding
LAist
Transit-Oriented Development Doesn't Just Happen! (A developer's perspective on what it takes to make TOD a reality at Urban Land Institute Los Angeles' recent TOD conference)
The Planning Report
Urban Circulator Grants Promise Better Rail And Bus Service To A Select Group Of Cities
Transport Politic
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Boyle Heights Farmers Market Debuts (Starts today and continues every Friday 3pm - 8pm, at Mariachi Plaza Metro Gold Line Station)
NBC Los Angeles
Boyle Heights Farmers Market On Facebook
Broadway Streetcar Loses Out On Federal Funding: Only Six Of 65 Applicants Get Money As Los Angeles Misses $25 Million Proposal
Los Angeles Downtown News
California High-Speed Rail Authority Okays Study Of Shared-Track Option On Los Angeles To Anaheim Run
PR Newswire
Car-Dependent States Hit Hardest By Obesity Epidemic
StreetsBlog DC
EPA Declares L.A. River "Traditional Navigable Waters"
Los Angeles Times
Feds Announce Winners Of $293 Million In Transit Grants
StreetsBlog DC
Complete Project List: Urban Circulator/Bus And Bus Livability Projects Descriptions
U.S. Federal Transit Administration
A Friendly Note From Me To Metro ("Three humble suggestions for things you can do with my extra 25 cents a ride.")
Blogging L.A.
Happy Endings: Judge Rules Traffic Calming Measures Put Back In Holmby-Westwood
StreetsBlog LA
High-Speed Rail Board Takes No Action On Ridership Issue
Voice Of OC
How Much New Vitality Would The Downtown Business Community Enjoy If Streetcars Started Running Again? (poll)
Los Angeles Business Journal
Mobile Apps Work To Make Walking Safer
The City Fix
Most Liveable City: Munich (video : "Munich is a place where wealth and prosperity are reinvested in transport, infrastructure and environmental initiatives.")
Monocle
New Clearinghouse Of Worldwide Transit Research (Monash University, Victoria, Australia)
Transit Wire
World Transit Research Website
New Transit Solutions Promise Jobs Now, Livability Gains For Years To Come
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Now, System That Locates, Guides Drivers To Car Park Spaces
Sify News
Opinion: Keep Fighting To Stop 710 Tunnel
La Canada Valley Sun
Plan For Ads At Riverside County Train Stations On Track
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Santa Monica Likely To Vote On Increasing Sales Tax To 10.25%
LAist
Should Cities Be Run Like Software?
Infrastructurist
Sidestepping Voter Intent By Siphoning Off Gas Taxes?
Orange County Register
Streetcar Planned For Downtown Not Included In Latest Round Of Federal Funding
LAist
Transit-Oriented Development Doesn't Just Happen! (A developer's perspective on what it takes to make TOD a reality at Urban Land Institute Los Angeles' recent TOD conference)
The Planning Report
Urban Circulator Grants Promise Better Rail And Bus Service To A Select Group Of Cities
Transport Politic
7/08/2010
Gold Line Funding, Westwood/UCLA Station, What CicLAvia Might Look Like, Fare Evaders, New SFV COG & More
Advice For Riding Transit At Night Alone
UCLA Be A Green Commuter!
Active Transportation, More Walking And Biking Can Help Us Confront Obesity
Transportation For America
Bikeability And The Twenty-Minute Neighborhood: How Infrastructure And Destinations Influence Bicycle Accessibility (47p. PDF)
Portland State University Initiative For Bicycle & Pedestrian Innovation
Budget Plans Approved For Metro System With Westwood/UCLA Stop
UCLA Daily Bruin
Charlotte Does Light Rail Right
Grist
Facebook Page Allows Airing Of Grievances On Wilshire Bus Lane
Curbed LA
Brentwood Community Council Facebook Page
Freight Index Jumps 9.1 Percent In June
Journal Of Commerce
Gold Line Light Rail Extension Gets More Funding
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Lesson From Paris: Being Bicycle-Friendly Takes Much More Than Rentals
Blog Downtown
Light Rail For L.A.'s Westside
The City Fix
The National Bicycling And Walking Study: 15-Year Status Report (24p. PDF)
U.S. DOT Federal Highway Administration Pedestrian And Bicycle Information Center
A New Plan For High-Speed Rail: Require Freight Rail Carriers To Offer Passsenger Service Again
Baltimore Sun
New San Fernando Valley COG Enables Valley "Place"-Making
The Planning Report
Promising Practices And Solutions In Accessible Transportation: Online Conference On Accessible Transportation (August 2-5, 2010)
U.S. Transportation Research Board
Secret Stations And Boyhood Love On The Paris Metro
National Public Radio
Take That, Fare Evaders!
Plus Metro
U.S. Transit Capital Funding: A Big Picture?
Human Transit
Valley Council To Get Started (San Fernando Valley Council of Governments to hold first meeting today)
Los Angeles Daily News
What CicLAvia Might Look Like: Scenes From "Oaklavia" And Other Car-Free Street Events
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Will HSR Become Just One Of Many Unfinished "Pilot Projects"?
California High Speed Rail Blog
UCLA Be A Green Commuter!
Active Transportation, More Walking And Biking Can Help Us Confront Obesity
Transportation For America
Bikeability And The Twenty-Minute Neighborhood: How Infrastructure And Destinations Influence Bicycle Accessibility (47p. PDF)
Portland State University Initiative For Bicycle & Pedestrian Innovation
Budget Plans Approved For Metro System With Westwood/UCLA Stop
UCLA Daily Bruin
Charlotte Does Light Rail Right
Grist
Facebook Page Allows Airing Of Grievances On Wilshire Bus Lane
Curbed LA
Brentwood Community Council Facebook Page
Freight Index Jumps 9.1 Percent In June
Journal Of Commerce
Gold Line Light Rail Extension Gets More Funding
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Lesson From Paris: Being Bicycle-Friendly Takes Much More Than Rentals
Blog Downtown
Light Rail For L.A.'s Westside
The City Fix
The National Bicycling And Walking Study: 15-Year Status Report (24p. PDF)
U.S. DOT Federal Highway Administration Pedestrian And Bicycle Information Center
A New Plan For High-Speed Rail: Require Freight Rail Carriers To Offer Passsenger Service Again
Baltimore Sun
New San Fernando Valley COG Enables Valley "Place"-Making
The Planning Report
Promising Practices And Solutions In Accessible Transportation: Online Conference On Accessible Transportation (August 2-5, 2010)
U.S. Transportation Research Board
Secret Stations And Boyhood Love On The Paris Metro
National Public Radio
Take That, Fare Evaders!
Plus Metro
U.S. Transit Capital Funding: A Big Picture?
Human Transit
Valley Council To Get Started (San Fernando Valley Council of Governments to hold first meeting today)
Los Angeles Daily News
What CicLAvia Might Look Like: Scenes From "Oaklavia" And Other Car-Free Street Events
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Will HSR Become Just One Of Many Unfinished "Pilot Projects"?
California High Speed Rail Blog
7/07/2010
Revolutionizing The Bus, Expo Line TOD, Federal Transportation Tax, Retrofitting Suburbia, 1922 L.A. Traffic Relief & More
1922 Los Angeles: Unprecedented Growth, Congestion And A Plan For Relief
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
CalTrans Fail? (New signage announces 5-10-60 "Fyws")
Curbed LA
Council Set To Finalize LUCE (Santa Monica Land Use and Circulation Element)
Santa Monica Daily Press
Derided No More, Suburban Life Is Turning Serious (Academia is slowly embracing suburban studies as a legitimate field of scholarly inquiry)
Associated Press
A Desire For More Streetcars: More Than Half A Century After The Streetcar's Heyday, This Transportation Mode Is Poised To Make A Comeback
Governing
Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting Suburbia (video : noted architect and Congress For New Urbanism Board Member discusses transforming "underperforming asphalt properties" into walkable, sustainable vital centers of community)
Ted: Ideas Worth Spreading
Flip Flop: Parts Of Orange County May Become L.A. County, And Vice Versa
LAist
Gas Taxes Give Us A Break At The Pump
USA Today
How Social Media Is Changing The Way Government Does Business
Mashable
In Westside Los Angeles, A Rail Line Stirs A Revival ("In addition to removing tens of thousands of cars from the road — 64,000 daily riders by 2030, according to transit authorities — the 15.6-mile Expo Line is expected to spawn a variety of mixed-use real estate projects, as some of the city’s previous rail lines have done.")
New York Times
Is This The Sustainable City Of The Future?
Guardian (London)
Keep The Traditional California Dream, Or Is It Time For A New Vision?
Fresno Bee
Potential Rail Car Cost-Saving Strategies Exist (41p. PDF)
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Public Works + Twitter = Cost-Cutting Info Sharing
LAist
Separation Of Vehicles: CMV-Only Lanes (108p. PDF)
National Cooperative Freight Research Program
Slideshow: 12 Worst Government Websites (The list includes two federal transportation sites, as well as the City of Los Angeles)
Information Week
Subway On The Street: The [New York] MTA Has A Simple, Not Very Expensive Ticket For Improving How The City Gets Around - Revolutionize The Bus
New York Magazine
What Do Americans Think About Federal Transportation Tax Options? Results From A National Survey: Research Brief (2p. PDF)
Mineta Transportation Institute
Full-Text Report (65p. PDF)
What's Alan Lowenthal's HSR Game?
California High Speed Rail Blog
Will New York's Bus Rapid Transit System Cause A Bus Revolution?
Infrastructurist
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
CalTrans Fail? (New signage announces 5-10-60 "Fyws")
Curbed LA
Council Set To Finalize LUCE (Santa Monica Land Use and Circulation Element)
Santa Monica Daily Press
Derided No More, Suburban Life Is Turning Serious (Academia is slowly embracing suburban studies as a legitimate field of scholarly inquiry)
Associated Press
A Desire For More Streetcars: More Than Half A Century After The Streetcar's Heyday, This Transportation Mode Is Poised To Make A Comeback
Governing
Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting Suburbia (video : noted architect and Congress For New Urbanism Board Member discusses transforming "underperforming asphalt properties" into walkable, sustainable vital centers of community)
Ted: Ideas Worth Spreading
Flip Flop: Parts Of Orange County May Become L.A. County, And Vice Versa
LAist
Gas Taxes Give Us A Break At The Pump
USA Today
How Social Media Is Changing The Way Government Does Business
Mashable
In Westside Los Angeles, A Rail Line Stirs A Revival ("In addition to removing tens of thousands of cars from the road — 64,000 daily riders by 2030, according to transit authorities — the 15.6-mile Expo Line is expected to spawn a variety of mixed-use real estate projects, as some of the city’s previous rail lines have done.")
New York Times
Is This The Sustainable City Of The Future?
Guardian (London)
Keep The Traditional California Dream, Or Is It Time For A New Vision?
Fresno Bee
Potential Rail Car Cost-Saving Strategies Exist (41p. PDF)
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Public Works + Twitter = Cost-Cutting Info Sharing
LAist
Separation Of Vehicles: CMV-Only Lanes (108p. PDF)
National Cooperative Freight Research Program
Slideshow: 12 Worst Government Websites (The list includes two federal transportation sites, as well as the City of Los Angeles)
Information Week
Subway On The Street: The [New York] MTA Has A Simple, Not Very Expensive Ticket For Improving How The City Gets Around - Revolutionize The Bus
New York Magazine
What Do Americans Think About Federal Transportation Tax Options? Results From A National Survey: Research Brief (2p. PDF)
Mineta Transportation Institute
Full-Text Report (65p. PDF)
What's Alan Lowenthal's HSR Game?
California High Speed Rail Blog
Will New York's Bus Rapid Transit System Cause A Bus Revolution?
Infrastructurist
7/06/2010
Over The Grapevine, Shaping L.A., Dump The Pump Wrap-Up, Writing Congress About 30/10, Oldest Pullman Porter & More
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America's Veterans Need More And Better Transportation Options
Transportation For America
Are Blue Bikelanes Better Than Black?
Treehugger
Art Review: "Through The Grapevine" At The Center For Land Use Interpretation ("The stars of show are the three roadways: the Ridge Route from 1915, Highway 99 from 1933 and Interstate 5 from 1970.")
Los Angeles Times
BART Plan Exposes City's Challenges
Wall Street Journal
Bicycle Highways: Should Cities Build Specialized Roadways For Cyclists?
Slate
California Salivates As Obama Administration Offers $2.3 Billion For High-Speed Rail
San Mateo County Times
Car Ownership Or Ease Of Driving: Which Is the Real Challenge?
The City Fix
Dumping The Pump: U.S. Transit Agencies Respond (a representative round-up of creative activities during the 5th Annual Dump The Pump Day on June 17)
Passenger Transport
How The Media Gets High Speed Rail Wrong
California High Speed Rail Blog
Inland Empire Commuters Hit The Road: A Study Shows Riverside County Residents Are Trekking To LA And San Diego Because Jobs Close To Home Are Hard To Find
NBC Los Angeles
The Latest Employment Report: Construction Jobs Get Hammered
Infrastructurist
Live Tube Map Halted As TfL Hit By 50-Fold Growth In Web Calls: Temporary Halt Put On Newly Introduced API Feed As Implementations Catch The London Open Data Experiment Unprepared For Demand
Guardian (London)
Metro-FlickrLA: Pacific Electric Painted Metro Blue Line Train
MetroRider LA
Metro-FlickrLA: Wilshire-Western Station
MerroRider LA
NAVTEQ: A Growing Interest In Transit Data
GPS Business News
Oldest Living Pullman Porter Looks Back: Lee Wesley Gibson, 100, Began Working For Union Pacific In 1936
Los Angeles Times
Opinion: Shaping The City Of L.A.-- With A New City Planning Director To Be Named Soon, It's Time To Streamline The Land Use Process And Make It Smarter And More Efficient -- For Los Angeles To Finally Take Charge Of Its Cityscape
Los Angeles Times
Opinion: Time To Change The Map On High-Speed Rail?
San Jose Mercury News
Santa Monica Introduces "Sharrows" On 14th Street: "Sharrows," Or "Shared Lane Arrows," Are One Of The Elements Of A Larger Bike Plan That Santa Monica Is Developing
Los Angeles Times
Taiwan High-Speed Posts First Operating Profit
International Railway Journal
Technology Innovations Cut Costs, Boost Safety In Public Transportation; New Processes Add Visibility, Collision Warning, Antibacterial Support
Passenger Transport
Tube Line Sales Completed
Railway Gazette (U.K.)
US Bicycle Route System Begins Connecting America
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
USC Plans $900-Million Shopping And Residential Upgrade: Neighbors Are Divided On The Project, Which Would Replace University Village. Work Could Start In Two Years
Los Angeles Times
Washington Gets America's First Electric Highway
GOOD
What Does American Exceptionalism Mean For Livable Streets?
StreetsBlog DC
What Ever Happened To Public Transportation?
Huffington Post
Will High-Speed Rail Drive Business?
National Journal Transportation Blog
Working Families Brace For The Strain Of 20% Hike In Bus Fares
LA Beez
Writing Congress About LA's 30/10 Mass Transit And Jobs Initiative
Huffington Post
Our website explains our collections, services and research tools, contains links to numerous digital documents in our collections and provides up-to-the-minute subject bibliographies
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America's Veterans Need More And Better Transportation Options
Transportation For America
Are Blue Bikelanes Better Than Black?
Treehugger
Art Review: "Through The Grapevine" At The Center For Land Use Interpretation ("The stars of show are the three roadways: the Ridge Route from 1915, Highway 99 from 1933 and Interstate 5 from 1970.")
Los Angeles Times
BART Plan Exposes City's Challenges
Wall Street Journal
Bicycle Highways: Should Cities Build Specialized Roadways For Cyclists?
Slate
California Salivates As Obama Administration Offers $2.3 Billion For High-Speed Rail
San Mateo County Times
Car Ownership Or Ease Of Driving: Which Is the Real Challenge?
The City Fix
Dumping The Pump: U.S. Transit Agencies Respond (a representative round-up of creative activities during the 5th Annual Dump The Pump Day on June 17)
Passenger Transport
How The Media Gets High Speed Rail Wrong
California High Speed Rail Blog
Inland Empire Commuters Hit The Road: A Study Shows Riverside County Residents Are Trekking To LA And San Diego Because Jobs Close To Home Are Hard To Find
NBC Los Angeles
The Latest Employment Report: Construction Jobs Get Hammered
Infrastructurist
Live Tube Map Halted As TfL Hit By 50-Fold Growth In Web Calls: Temporary Halt Put On Newly Introduced API Feed As Implementations Catch The London Open Data Experiment Unprepared For Demand
Guardian (London)
Metro-FlickrLA: Pacific Electric Painted Metro Blue Line Train
MetroRider LA
Metro-FlickrLA: Wilshire-Western Station
MerroRider LA
NAVTEQ: A Growing Interest In Transit Data
GPS Business News
Oldest Living Pullman Porter Looks Back: Lee Wesley Gibson, 100, Began Working For Union Pacific In 1936
Los Angeles Times
Opinion: Shaping The City Of L.A.-- With A New City Planning Director To Be Named Soon, It's Time To Streamline The Land Use Process And Make It Smarter And More Efficient -- For Los Angeles To Finally Take Charge Of Its Cityscape
Los Angeles Times
Opinion: Time To Change The Map On High-Speed Rail?
San Jose Mercury News
Santa Monica Introduces "Sharrows" On 14th Street: "Sharrows," Or "Shared Lane Arrows," Are One Of The Elements Of A Larger Bike Plan That Santa Monica Is Developing
Los Angeles Times
Taiwan High-Speed Posts First Operating Profit
International Railway Journal
Technology Innovations Cut Costs, Boost Safety In Public Transportation; New Processes Add Visibility, Collision Warning, Antibacterial Support
Passenger Transport
Tube Line Sales Completed
Railway Gazette (U.K.)
US Bicycle Route System Begins Connecting America
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
USC Plans $900-Million Shopping And Residential Upgrade: Neighbors Are Divided On The Project, Which Would Replace University Village. Work Could Start In Two Years
Los Angeles Times
Washington Gets America's First Electric Highway
GOOD
What Does American Exceptionalism Mean For Livable Streets?
StreetsBlog DC
What Ever Happened To Public Transportation?
Huffington Post
Will High-Speed Rail Drive Business?
National Journal Transportation Blog
Working Families Brace For The Strain Of 20% Hike In Bus Fares
LA Beez
Writing Congress About LA's 30/10 Mass Transit And Jobs Initiative
Huffington Post
7/02/2010
HSR Profitability Questioned, Beverly Hills Tunneling, Avoiding Congestion Pricing, "Safety Train" & More
Beverly Hills Community Opposition Building Against Westside Subway
LAist
Bus Fares Increase As Los Angeles Metro Executives Get Huge Salaries
LA Weekly
Bus Cuts Drive Americans Back To Cars
Guardian (London)
California High-Speed Rail Ridership Forecast Not Reliable, Study Finds
UC Berkeley News
Review Of "Bay Area/California High-Speed Rail Ridership And Revenue Forecasting Study" (59p. PDF)
UC Berkeley Institute Of Transportation Studies
Drivers Try To Avoid Higher Tolls On Bay Bridge (Traffic patterns are changing as commuters try to avoid congestion pricing hours in place before 10a.m.)
San Francisco Chronicle
High-Speed Rail Project's Prospects Called Unpredictable: A UC Berkeley Report Says The Ridership Forecasts Are So Unreliable That It Can't Be Determined Whether The Train Would Be Profitable Or Run In The Red
Los Angeles Times
Kids Safer On The Subway (A recent study shows that traffic fatality rates are lower for children in areas where public transit is widely used)
The City Fix
L.A. Losing Millions In Uncollected Parking Tickets And Fines: An Audit By City Controller Wendy Greuel For Fiscal Year 2008-09 Showed That Only 53% Of Some $533 Million In City Billings Was Collected, Resulting In A Loss Of $260 Million Annually
Los Angeles Times
Let's Hear It For L.A.
CityWatch
Metro Debuts New Rapid Service Between Downtown And Santa Monica
LAist
Metro Meets Some Community Opposition: Residents Speak Out Against Tunneling Under Neighborhood Homes
Beverly Hills Patch
Metrolink Fares And 91 Express Lanes Tolls Increase
Orange County Register
Our Cities, Ourselves: Ten Architects Re-Imagine Urban Transport In 2030
The City Fix
Bicycles As Transport: From Alternative To Mainstream
Park 101 Costs And Next Steps Outlined By Study (Includes new conceptual sketches and plans. "The five phases of the project to cap the 101 freeway through Downtown with park space would cost $387 million, but would generate $408 million in private investment.")
Blog Downtown
Park Powers Forward: Green Component Of Grand Avenue Plan, Including A Dog Park, To Have Groundbreaking Ceremony July 15
Los Angeles Downtown News
Ride Report: Metro Rapid Line 733
MetroRider LA
"Safety Train" Ride Shows Danger To Pedestrians
San Francisco Chronicle
Santa Monica Announces Sharrows, New Bike Lane And More
LAist
Telling The Story Of Chicago, One Train Stop At A Time
StreetsBlog Network
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Is Charging Ahead In His Political Career ("Few expected this Republican in the Obama cabinet to cause such a stir. Yet, from his high speed rail advocacy to campaigning for road safety ("just say no to texting") to pushing livable communities, 64-year-old Ray LaHood has changed D.O.T.")
Washington Post
US House Panel Approves $67.4 Billion Transportation Bill
Dow Jones Newswires
What Does the Berkeley ITS Ridership Report Actually Say?
California High Speed Rail Blog
Who Is The Most Interesting Person You Have Met On Public Transportation?
GOOD
Youths Welcome Subway In Beverly Hills: Metro's Proposed "Direct Connection" Subway Plans Give Local Teens A Chance To Get Out Of Town
Beverly Hills Patch
LAist
Bus Fares Increase As Los Angeles Metro Executives Get Huge Salaries
LA Weekly
Bus Cuts Drive Americans Back To Cars
Guardian (London)
California High-Speed Rail Ridership Forecast Not Reliable, Study Finds
UC Berkeley News
Review Of "Bay Area/California High-Speed Rail Ridership And Revenue Forecasting Study" (59p. PDF)
UC Berkeley Institute Of Transportation Studies
Drivers Try To Avoid Higher Tolls On Bay Bridge (Traffic patterns are changing as commuters try to avoid congestion pricing hours in place before 10a.m.)
San Francisco Chronicle
High-Speed Rail Project's Prospects Called Unpredictable: A UC Berkeley Report Says The Ridership Forecasts Are So Unreliable That It Can't Be Determined Whether The Train Would Be Profitable Or Run In The Red
Los Angeles Times
Kids Safer On The Subway (A recent study shows that traffic fatality rates are lower for children in areas where public transit is widely used)
The City Fix
L.A. Losing Millions In Uncollected Parking Tickets And Fines: An Audit By City Controller Wendy Greuel For Fiscal Year 2008-09 Showed That Only 53% Of Some $533 Million In City Billings Was Collected, Resulting In A Loss Of $260 Million Annually
Los Angeles Times
Let's Hear It For L.A.
CityWatch
Metro Debuts New Rapid Service Between Downtown And Santa Monica
LAist
Metro Meets Some Community Opposition: Residents Speak Out Against Tunneling Under Neighborhood Homes
Beverly Hills Patch
Metrolink Fares And 91 Express Lanes Tolls Increase
Orange County Register
Our Cities, Ourselves: Ten Architects Re-Imagine Urban Transport In 2030
The City Fix
Bicycles As Transport: From Alternative To Mainstream
Park 101 Costs And Next Steps Outlined By Study (Includes new conceptual sketches and plans. "The five phases of the project to cap the 101 freeway through Downtown with park space would cost $387 million, but would generate $408 million in private investment.")
Blog Downtown
Park Powers Forward: Green Component Of Grand Avenue Plan, Including A Dog Park, To Have Groundbreaking Ceremony July 15
Los Angeles Downtown News
Ride Report: Metro Rapid Line 733
MetroRider LA
"Safety Train" Ride Shows Danger To Pedestrians
San Francisco Chronicle
Santa Monica Announces Sharrows, New Bike Lane And More
LAist
Telling The Story Of Chicago, One Train Stop At A Time
StreetsBlog Network
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Is Charging Ahead In His Political Career ("Few expected this Republican in the Obama cabinet to cause such a stir. Yet, from his high speed rail advocacy to campaigning for road safety ("just say no to texting") to pushing livable communities, 64-year-old Ray LaHood has changed D.O.T.")
Washington Post
US House Panel Approves $67.4 Billion Transportation Bill
Dow Jones Newswires
What Does the Berkeley ITS Ridership Report Actually Say?
California High Speed Rail Blog
Who Is The Most Interesting Person You Have Met On Public Transportation?
GOOD
Youths Welcome Subway In Beverly Hills: Metro's Proposed "Direct Connection" Subway Plans Give Local Teens A Chance To Get Out Of Town
Beverly Hills Patch
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