91 Freeway Commutes Could Be Eased This Week With The Opening Of A New Lane
Los Angeles Times
Amtrak California Unveils New Website
Sacramento Business Journal
Another Day, Another Revelation That A Gas Tax Hike Is Necessary
StreetsBlog DC
Application Of Physical Ability Testing To Current Workforce Of Transit Employees (96p. PDF)
TCRP Legal Research Digest
Best Buy Stations Gadget Machines At T Stops ("The MBTA will collect 7 percent of gross sales during the six-month pilot program.")
Boston Herald
California May Build Train To Nowhere
Fresno Bee
City Parking Smartens Up With Streetline ("San Francisco-based Streetline, recently named IBM’s Entrepreneur of the Year, mounts low-cost sensors in parking spaces, retrofits existing meters and ties them into a mesh wireless network to draw a real-time picture of the spaces available, the cars needing tickets and how much to charge for parking. The system is being tested across the country and may be coming soon to your city.")
Wired
Earmark Ban Goes Down To Defeat In The Senate
StreetsBlog DC
Evaluation Of Shared Lane Markings (8p. PDF : evaluation of MUTCD standards for marking indicating where motorists and bicyclists are expected to share the road)
Federal Highway Administration Tech Brief
Expo Update: FTA Gives Thumbs Up To Farmdale Station
StreetsBlog LA
Federal Transit Programs: Federal Transit Administration Has Opportunities To Improve Performance Accountability (46p. PDF)
U.S. Government Accountability Office
A Future Gold Line Station: Once An Elegant Stop On The Santa Fe Line ("Built in 1925, the Santa Fe Station connected Monrovia with the rest of the San Gabriel Valley, and may receive a new lease on life with the construction of the Gold Line Foothill Extension.")
Monrovia Patch
Interactive Planning And A Q&A Session With Michael LoGrande
StreetsBlog LA
LAPD Charging Jaywalkers $191 In New Crackdown
Los Angeles Times
Metro To Eliminate Some Bus Lines In December
My Fox LA
Metrolink Positive Train Control System (video)
Metrolink via YouTube
More Progress Needed To Reduce Metrolink Collisions, Experts Say
Whittier Daily News
New And Notable: Los Angeles From The Air Then And Now, Makeshift Metropolis & Down The Asphalt Path
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
An Open Letter To The New Planning Director Of Los Angeles ("Do Good Planning": "A shift in how we plan our transportation creates the opportunity to revitalize neighborhoods around old and new rail stations and new and improved bus lines, and build new homes for people who live and work here; all while making Los Angeles a better place to live.")
Occidental College Urban & Environmental Planning Institute
Q&A With L.A.'s New Planning Director On December 1
Occidental College
Public Spending On Transportation And Water Infrastructure: A CBO Study (62p. PDF)
Congressional Budget Office
Read This: Local Governments Told To Buy New Street Signs - Federal Highway Administration Is Ordering Local Governments To Buy New Street Signs That They Say Are Easier To Read
ABC News
Santa Ana Has A Desire Named Streetcar
OC Weekly
Theft And Vandalism Just Not A Problem For American Bike-Sharing
Streetsblog
Traveling Down Wilshire: Better Options To Come
Southern California Public Radio
Under One Roof: CHP, Caltrans To Share Fontana Building
San Bernardino Sun
U.S. Department Of Transportation Calls For New Round Of Comments On Compliance Dates For Key Traffic Regulations
U.S. DOT
What Does Planning Director Have In Store For L.A.?
Los Angeles Times
11/30/2010
11/29/2010
Wilshire Rush-Hour Bus Lanes, CAHSR's First Segment, Metrolink Grant For Collision Avoidance, A Look Back At Trains Of The Future & More
The 30/10 Initiative: A Weapon Of Mass Financial Destruction
CityWatch
An Alternative To Mayor Villaraigosa's California Dreamin' Agenda: Better Buses And Bikes
Los Angeles And First
Archive Gallery: Thrilling Trains Of the Future (Popular Science digs through their archives to unearth a collection of fantastical, futuristic trains such as amphibious monorails, suspended railways and "two-headed trains")
Popular Science
Image Gallery
Bus-Only Lanes Proposed For Wilshire Boulevard: The Lanes Would Be In Effect During Rush Hours And Would Go From MacArthur Park To Centinela Avenue, With A Gap In Beverly Hills. Residents Of Westwood's "Condo Canyon" Push For An Exemption
Los Angeles Times
California Congressman Undermines California Bullet Plans
Infrastructurist
California Planners Recommend Fresno-Hanford For First Phase Of State's High-Speed Line
Transport Politic
City Signs Off On Expo Line "Buffer Zone"
Santa Monica Daily Press
Could Price Of Ride On Angels Flight Get Too Steep?: Operators Of The Little Funicular Railway Are Weighing The Effects Of A Fare Hike
Los Angeles Times
Editorial: Rail Omen
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Editorial: Time For L.A. To Pay The Toll?
Daily Breeze
The Future Of Colorado Boulevard: Caught Between Residents' Dreams And L.A.'s Reality, Colorado Boulevard Has A Long Way To Go Before Bikers And Pedestrians Can Truly Share The Road
Eagle Rock Patch
Government Agencies Navigate The Promises And Pitfalls Of Social Media: As Law Enforcement, Transportation Agencies And Other Departments Rush To Interact With The Public Through Twitter Accounts And Facebook Pages, Guidelines For Using Social Media Have Been Slow To Follow ("At a League of California Cities conference earlier this year, two presentations illustrated the conflict: one was on the benefits of Facebook, and the other was a blunt reminder that the site falls under the Public Records Act.")
Los Angeles Times
If Only The Millions Of Thanksgiving Travelers Took The Train
GOOD
In Los Angeles, Big Step Ahead For Mass Transit ("This auto-obsessed city — a place where people love their cars almost as much as they hate the traffic — has embarked on the biggest expansion of its mass transit system in decades, an effort to change the way people navigate its sprawling and clogged streets and freeways.")
New York Times
Janette Sadik-Khan: Urban Reengineer
Esquire
L.A. Passes Plan To "Green" Taxicabs
Contra Costa Times
Los Angeles: Some Thoughts On The Challenge, For "The Source"
Human Transit
Make Boarding Rapids Rapid ("The Los Angeles Metro can and should offer solutions to cut the long boarding times commuters are facing.")
Plus Metro
Metrolink Gets $6.6 Million U.S. Grant For Collision-Avoidance Equipment
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Metrolink Tracks Crack In Freezing Temps
ABC-7
Norm Mineta: Former Sec. Of Transportation: "Roads And Highways" Top Transpo Priority, Defends Earmarks, Questions Some Defense Spending
Transportation Nation
Official: California High Speed Rail Won't Be De-Railed By GOP Plan
Pasadena Star-News
Parking Citations On An Incline: The City Will Pass On State Fees To Penalties Already Higher Than Surrounding Communities
Glendale News-Press
Poland Unveils BMW-Designed Subway Cars Which Are 98% Recyclable: The Siemens Inspiro Transit Concept Will Bring Sustainable Engineering To Warsaw's Metro System By 2012
Fast Company Design
Pringle: Conflict Charges Are Unfair Ploy By Democrats
Voice Of OC
Pringle's Double-Barreled Defense Of Anaheim's ARTIC Station
Voice Of OC
A Reality Show About...Car Parking
The City Fix
Parking Wars
A&E
Stimulus Help For State Roads, Rail Lines Almost Complete
San Jose Mercury News
Switching Gears: More Commuters Bike To Work
NPR
Transit Agencies: This Is Why You Should Have Your Data In GTFS Format With A License That Allows For Non-Commercial Derivatives
LA Subway Blog
Why Transit Will Never Be Energy Efficient
Antiplanner
Will Roads Of The Future Be Paved With Sandstone?
Next 100
WMATA Launches Website For Public Input On 30-Year Transit Plan
CityBizList
CityWatch
An Alternative To Mayor Villaraigosa's California Dreamin' Agenda: Better Buses And Bikes
Los Angeles And First
Archive Gallery: Thrilling Trains Of the Future (Popular Science digs through their archives to unearth a collection of fantastical, futuristic trains such as amphibious monorails, suspended railways and "two-headed trains")
Popular Science
Image Gallery
Bus-Only Lanes Proposed For Wilshire Boulevard: The Lanes Would Be In Effect During Rush Hours And Would Go From MacArthur Park To Centinela Avenue, With A Gap In Beverly Hills. Residents Of Westwood's "Condo Canyon" Push For An Exemption
Los Angeles Times
California Congressman Undermines California Bullet Plans
Infrastructurist
California Planners Recommend Fresno-Hanford For First Phase Of State's High-Speed Line
Transport Politic
City Signs Off On Expo Line "Buffer Zone"
Santa Monica Daily Press
Could Price Of Ride On Angels Flight Get Too Steep?: Operators Of The Little Funicular Railway Are Weighing The Effects Of A Fare Hike
Los Angeles Times
Editorial: Rail Omen
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Editorial: Time For L.A. To Pay The Toll?
Daily Breeze
The Future Of Colorado Boulevard: Caught Between Residents' Dreams And L.A.'s Reality, Colorado Boulevard Has A Long Way To Go Before Bikers And Pedestrians Can Truly Share The Road
Eagle Rock Patch
Government Agencies Navigate The Promises And Pitfalls Of Social Media: As Law Enforcement, Transportation Agencies And Other Departments Rush To Interact With The Public Through Twitter Accounts And Facebook Pages, Guidelines For Using Social Media Have Been Slow To Follow ("At a League of California Cities conference earlier this year, two presentations illustrated the conflict: one was on the benefits of Facebook, and the other was a blunt reminder that the site falls under the Public Records Act.")
Los Angeles Times
If Only The Millions Of Thanksgiving Travelers Took The Train
GOOD
In Los Angeles, Big Step Ahead For Mass Transit ("This auto-obsessed city — a place where people love their cars almost as much as they hate the traffic — has embarked on the biggest expansion of its mass transit system in decades, an effort to change the way people navigate its sprawling and clogged streets and freeways.")
New York Times
Janette Sadik-Khan: Urban Reengineer
Esquire
L.A. Passes Plan To "Green" Taxicabs
Contra Costa Times
Los Angeles: Some Thoughts On The Challenge, For "The Source"
Human Transit
Make Boarding Rapids Rapid ("The Los Angeles Metro can and should offer solutions to cut the long boarding times commuters are facing.")
Plus Metro
Metrolink Gets $6.6 Million U.S. Grant For Collision-Avoidance Equipment
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Metrolink Tracks Crack In Freezing Temps
ABC-7
Norm Mineta: Former Sec. Of Transportation: "Roads And Highways" Top Transpo Priority, Defends Earmarks, Questions Some Defense Spending
Transportation Nation
Official: California High Speed Rail Won't Be De-Railed By GOP Plan
Pasadena Star-News
Parking Citations On An Incline: The City Will Pass On State Fees To Penalties Already Higher Than Surrounding Communities
Glendale News-Press
Poland Unveils BMW-Designed Subway Cars Which Are 98% Recyclable: The Siemens Inspiro Transit Concept Will Bring Sustainable Engineering To Warsaw's Metro System By 2012
Fast Company Design
Pringle: Conflict Charges Are Unfair Ploy By Democrats
Voice Of OC
Pringle's Double-Barreled Defense Of Anaheim's ARTIC Station
Voice Of OC
A Reality Show About...Car Parking
The City Fix
Parking Wars
A&E
Stimulus Help For State Roads, Rail Lines Almost Complete
San Jose Mercury News
Switching Gears: More Commuters Bike To Work
NPR
Transit Agencies: This Is Why You Should Have Your Data In GTFS Format With A License That Allows For Non-Commercial Derivatives
LA Subway Blog
Why Transit Will Never Be Energy Efficient
Antiplanner
Will Roads Of The Future Be Paved With Sandstone?
Next 100
WMATA Launches Website For Public Input On 30-Year Transit Plan
CityBizList
11/24/2010
CAHSR Funds In Jeopardy, California Streetcars, End Of Automania, New & Notable Titles, Parking Management, Bus Lane Cameras & More
All Economics Is Local: The Straits Of Cities And Counties Are Hurting The Recovery ("The National League of Cities thinks nearly 500,000 workers in local government will lose their jobs in the current and coming fiscal years.")
The Economist
California Beckons High-Speed Rail Despite Midterm Derailment In Funding
The City Fix
California Cities Desire Streetcars ("The streetcar bandwagon, which has picked up dozens of cities nationwide, including Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, and Santa Ana, is fueled not only by nostalgia but also by new attitudes about both urbanism and transportation planning.")
California Planning & Development Report
Commentary: Building A High-Speed Future: 220 MPH, And No Pat-Downs
McClatchy
Confessions Of A Recovering Engineer (Despite years of training and precedent, a traffic engineer questions whether we are actually creating bad and unsafe streets)
Strong Towns
Crenshaw Maintenance Facility Site Open House (December 1)
StreetsBlog LA
Editorial: $80M Legal Spree By MTA
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
E-Mails Reveal Clashes Over High-Speed Rail Project: Two Board Members Also Have Other Transit Responsibilities. Do Their Multiple Roles Enrich The Board Or Set The Scene For Conflicting Interests?
Los Angeles Times
The End Of Automania ("Are Americans as car crazy as they were in the '70s?")
New Republic
Go Metro To This Year's Hollywood Christmas Parade
Beverly Hills Courier
Gobbling Less Gas For Thanksgiving: How Clean Cars Can Save Americans Money And Cut Oil Use (15p. PDF)
Environment California Research & Policy Center
GOP House Aims To Take $2 Billion Back From California High-Speed Rail
San Jose Mercury News
Great Los Angeles Walk: Car-Free Urban Adventure
Southern California Public Radio
Interview With Jarrett Walker, International Transit Network Planner, Part 1 and Part 2
The Source
Irvine's iShuttle To Be Funded Through Exchange With OCTA
Orange County Register
Join Southern California Transit Advocates For Black Friday
MetroRider LA
Metro's Conan Cheung Updates On Next 18 Months Of Service Planning
StreetsBlog LA
New And Notable: Sprawl Repair Manual, Republic Of Drivers & Urban Mass Transit's Life Story
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Opinion: Should We Hope Congestion Gets Worse?
New York Times
Parking Management: A Contribution Towards Liveable Cities (50p. PDF)
Sustainable Transport
Paying At The Pump For Oil Wars: A Plausible Option?
StreetsBlog DC
California Planning & Development Report
Commentary: Building A High-Speed Future: 220 MPH, And No Pat-Downs
McClatchy
Confessions Of A Recovering Engineer (Despite years of training and precedent, a traffic engineer questions whether we are actually creating bad and unsafe streets)
Strong Towns
Crenshaw Maintenance Facility Site Open House (December 1)
StreetsBlog LA
Editorial: $80M Legal Spree By MTA
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
E-Mails Reveal Clashes Over High-Speed Rail Project: Two Board Members Also Have Other Transit Responsibilities. Do Their Multiple Roles Enrich The Board Or Set The Scene For Conflicting Interests?
Los Angeles Times
The End Of Automania ("Are Americans as car crazy as they were in the '70s?")
New Republic
Go Metro To This Year's Hollywood Christmas Parade
Beverly Hills Courier
Gobbling Less Gas For Thanksgiving: How Clean Cars Can Save Americans Money And Cut Oil Use (15p. PDF)
Environment California Research & Policy Center
GOP House Aims To Take $2 Billion Back From California High-Speed Rail
San Jose Mercury News
Great Los Angeles Walk: Car-Free Urban Adventure
Southern California Public Radio
Interview With Jarrett Walker, International Transit Network Planner, Part 1 and Part 2
The Source
Irvine's iShuttle To Be Funded Through Exchange With OCTA
Orange County Register
Join Southern California Transit Advocates For Black Friday
MetroRider LA
Metro's Conan Cheung Updates On Next 18 Months Of Service Planning
StreetsBlog LA
New And Notable: Sprawl Repair Manual, Republic Of Drivers & Urban Mass Transit's Life Story
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Opinion: Should We Hope Congestion Gets Worse?
New York Times
Parking Management: A Contribution Towards Liveable Cities (50p. PDF)
Sustainable Transport
Paying At The Pump For Oil Wars: A Plausible Option?
StreetsBlog DC
Political Gridlock Railroads High-Speed Trains
Fortune
Post-Cornfield: LA State Historic Park Actually Moving Forward?
Curbed LA
Smile: You're On Bus Lane Camera
New York Times
"Subway To The Sea" Shouldn't End 3 Miles From The Sand: But Given The History Of Transit Planning In Los Angeles, It's Actually Kind Of Fitting - There's Already A Train To LAX That Doesn't Go All The Way To The Airport
Los Angeles Times
A Tale Of Two Light Rail Lines ("A rather startling contrast can be made between the two approaches that are being pursued by the Exposition Construction Authority and the Metro Crenshaw Corridor/LAX Team with respect to community input and land use decisions relative to the two light rail lines they’re designing and constructing.")
CityWatch
Trains, Planes, And Pollution (infographic)
Think Progress
Transit People's Free Advice For Mayor, Metro On Free Transit Passes For Field Trips
StreetsBlog LA
The Use Of Archive Data For Planning And Operations Performance Measures (webcast : December 2)
I-95 Corridor Coalition
We're Ready To Roll! ("Please save the date to join us as wel roll out our new state-of-the-art Hyundai Rotem Rail Cars at the Whistle Stop Debut!" Dates and times listed, including Monday, December 6, 8:00a.m. at Los Angeles Union Station)
Metrolink
The Westside Subway: Welcome Back, Epstein
Huffington Post
What A Time-Lapsed Busy Subway Yard Looks Like (video)
Infrastructurist
11/23/2010
Gold Line Maintenance Yard, Replacing The Gerald Desmond Bridge, Is HSR "Techno-Glamour?," Walk Score's 2,500 New Cities & More
8 Ways To Create Better Streets In Eagle Rock
Eagle Rock Patch
The Allure Of Techno-Glamour ("High-speed trains exemplify autonomy and grace, sliding along effortlessly, with no visible source of fuel. To a stressed-out public, they promise an escape from traffic jams—and, at least until the first terrorism scare, from the hassles, intrusion and delays of airport security.")
Wall Street Journal
Artist Chris Burden Building Little Freeway Network For LACMA
Curbed LA
Beyond The Triple Circle: Design Alternatives For Traffic Lights
Los Angeles Times
Crumbling Long Beach Bridge's $1 Billion Replacement Nears
Beverly Hills Courier
Digitization And Transportation: Northwestern University's Google Books Project
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
A Former Traffic Engineer On The Industry's Perverse Standards
StreetsBlog DC
High-Speed Rail Takes A Shellacking
Wired
Long Beach Bridge At The End Of Its Lifespan: Officials Expect To Replace The Gerald Desmond Bridge With One Higher And Wider To Accomodate Larger Ships And More Vehicle Traffic ("According to the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., the project is expected to generate about 4,000 jobs each year and more than $2 billion in economic activity.")
Los Angeles Times
[N.Y.] MTA Workers Didn't Do Thousands Of Subway Safety Checks On Time, Filed Bogus Reports, Sources Say
New York Daily News
A New Political Reality Settling In For National Transportation Financing ("Austerity measures that may be introduced in the House could result in significant cutbacks in support for transit. Meanwhile, the decision by Republican legislators to phase out earmarks may reduce support for a future transportation bill.")
Transport Politic
Not Enough Clipper Cheats To Fix Glitch, BART Says
San Francisco Chronicle
On The Waterfront: Cargo Traffic Climbs Back To '07 Levels
Long Beach Press-Telegram
One-Way Car Sharing To Airports Launches In NYC: Makes Practice More Like Bike Share Or Taxi
Transportation Nation
Otis Report On The Creative Economy Of The Los Angeles Region: The Power Of Art And Artists (73p. PDF)
Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation; Otis College Of Art And Design
Peter Appel Discusses USDOT (audio : Appel, the Administrator of the USDOT's Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), is responsible for leveraging effective research and cross-modal coordination. In this "Business of Government Hour," innovative transportation solutions are discussed)
Federal News Radio
Residents Opposed To Gold Line Maintenance Yard Now Keeping An Open Mind: The City Believes It Has Allayed The Concerns Of Many Residents Who Signed A Letter Opposing The Construction Of The Maintenance Facility In Monrovia
Monrovia Patch
Solution To 405 Backup Nightmare: East/West Tunnels Under Wilshire & Santa Monica
Calcanis
Some Doubt Ridership Estimates For S.F.-L.A. High-Speed Rail ("Rail officials say the ambitious projections were not meant to forecast revenue. Rather, they were developed to help planners account for the harshest possible effect of the system on the environment, they say. That means the numbers needed to be as high as could reasonably be expected.")
Streetline Named IBM Global Entrepreneur Of The Year ("At the core of Streetline's technology is its patented smart parking platform which detects the presence of a car through a network of ultra-low power wireless sensors located in each parking space.")
PR Newswire
Subway Cars On Venice Blvd.?
Plus Metro
Talking The Walk: The Great LA Walk 2010 Does Wilshire Blvd.
LAist
The Tea Party Targets...Sustainable Development? ("If you believe conservative activists, smart growth is really a global conspiracy to herd Americans into human habitation zones.")
Mother Jones
Transportation Secretary LaHood Announces Recipients Of New Railroad Safety Technology Grants ("Seven projects will share $50 million to help make the nation’s rail system safer by facilitating deployment of Positive Train Control (PTC) collision avoidance systems and other advanced technologies...Southern California Regional Rail Authority (SCRRA) Shared LA PTC Communications Infrastructure will develop and test the communications best practices guide for all railroads that must implement a standard Vital Train Management System (VTMS) which requires an interoperable communication architecture that will allow trains to operate safely across railroad networks using the Los Angeles basin as the prototype.")
PressZoom
Walk Score Ambles Into 2,500 New Cities
GOOD
Was AV Transit Agency Board Asleep At The Board?
In The AV
Eagle Rock Patch
The Allure Of Techno-Glamour ("High-speed trains exemplify autonomy and grace, sliding along effortlessly, with no visible source of fuel. To a stressed-out public, they promise an escape from traffic jams—and, at least until the first terrorism scare, from the hassles, intrusion and delays of airport security.")
Wall Street Journal
Artist Chris Burden Building Little Freeway Network For LACMA
Curbed LA
Beyond The Triple Circle: Design Alternatives For Traffic Lights
Los Angeles Times
Crumbling Long Beach Bridge's $1 Billion Replacement Nears
Beverly Hills Courier
Digitization And Transportation: Northwestern University's Google Books Project
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
A Former Traffic Engineer On The Industry's Perverse Standards
StreetsBlog DC
High-Speed Rail Takes A Shellacking
Wired
Long Beach Bridge At The End Of Its Lifespan: Officials Expect To Replace The Gerald Desmond Bridge With One Higher And Wider To Accomodate Larger Ships And More Vehicle Traffic ("According to the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., the project is expected to generate about 4,000 jobs each year and more than $2 billion in economic activity.")
Los Angeles Times
[N.Y.] MTA Workers Didn't Do Thousands Of Subway Safety Checks On Time, Filed Bogus Reports, Sources Say
New York Daily News
A New Political Reality Settling In For National Transportation Financing ("Austerity measures that may be introduced in the House could result in significant cutbacks in support for transit. Meanwhile, the decision by Republican legislators to phase out earmarks may reduce support for a future transportation bill.")
Transport Politic
Not Enough Clipper Cheats To Fix Glitch, BART Says
San Francisco Chronicle
On The Waterfront: Cargo Traffic Climbs Back To '07 Levels
Long Beach Press-Telegram
One-Way Car Sharing To Airports Launches In NYC: Makes Practice More Like Bike Share Or Taxi
Transportation Nation
Otis Report On The Creative Economy Of The Los Angeles Region: The Power Of Art And Artists (73p. PDF)
Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation; Otis College Of Art And Design
Peter Appel Discusses USDOT (audio : Appel, the Administrator of the USDOT's Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), is responsible for leveraging effective research and cross-modal coordination. In this "Business of Government Hour," innovative transportation solutions are discussed)
Federal News Radio
Residents Opposed To Gold Line Maintenance Yard Now Keeping An Open Mind: The City Believes It Has Allayed The Concerns Of Many Residents Who Signed A Letter Opposing The Construction Of The Maintenance Facility In Monrovia
Monrovia Patch
Solution To 405 Backup Nightmare: East/West Tunnels Under Wilshire & Santa Monica
Calcanis
Some Doubt Ridership Estimates For S.F.-L.A. High-Speed Rail ("Rail officials say the ambitious projections were not meant to forecast revenue. Rather, they were developed to help planners account for the harshest possible effect of the system on the environment, they say. That means the numbers needed to be as high as could reasonably be expected.")
Fresno Bee
Streetline Named IBM Global Entrepreneur Of The Year ("At the core of Streetline's technology is its patented smart parking platform which detects the presence of a car through a network of ultra-low power wireless sensors located in each parking space.")
PR Newswire
Subway Cars On Venice Blvd.?
Plus Metro
Talking The Walk: The Great LA Walk 2010 Does Wilshire Blvd.
LAist
The Tea Party Targets...Sustainable Development? ("If you believe conservative activists, smart growth is really a global conspiracy to herd Americans into human habitation zones.")
Mother Jones
Transportation Secretary LaHood Announces Recipients Of New Railroad Safety Technology Grants ("Seven projects will share $50 million to help make the nation’s rail system safer by facilitating deployment of Positive Train Control (PTC) collision avoidance systems and other advanced technologies...Southern California Regional Rail Authority (SCRRA) Shared LA PTC Communications Infrastructure will develop and test the communications best practices guide for all railroads that must implement a standard Vital Train Management System (VTMS) which requires an interoperable communication architecture that will allow trains to operate safely across railroad networks using the Los Angeles basin as the prototype.")
PressZoom
Walk Score Ambles Into 2,500 New Cities
GOOD
Was AV Transit Agency Board Asleep At The Board?
In The AV
11/22/2010
Orange Line Bikeway, South LA CicLAvia?, Congestion Pricing In SGV, Car-Free Chat, Dodger Stadium Shuttle, 57 / 60 Interchange & More
Buildings Don't Cause Traffic In Pasadena, Drivers Do
Brigham Yen
Caltrans cited by EPA For Water Pollution
San Francisco Chronicle
Chat With Us 11/22: Living Car-Free In Southern California (today online, 3 - 4pm)
Southern California Public Radio
The Cold And The Dark ("If Art Leahy were to meet you at the Blue Line station or at one of the Rapid bus stops, introduce you to the Metro driver, and get a conversation among the passengers started, you might even consider putting your car aside once in a while and taking Metro. He's that good.")
KCET Departures
Congressional Reps Agree To Let Go Of Earmarks, Reluctantly ("Locally, the $1.8 billion Alameda Corridor East Construction Authority project to separate traffic from railroads is a popular target for earmark funds. But there is no funding category for so-called "grade separation" projects")
Whittier Daily News
Connections vs. Complexity ("The striking thing about the Los Angeles map is that most streets have only a single line on them, even though we are immediately south of downtown and you would expect many lines to be converging.")
Human Transit
Contrasting Visions Of Urban Transport: Critique Of "Fixing Transit: The Case For Privatization" (26p. PDF)
Victoria Transport Policy Institute
Dodger Stadium Express A Success, But Future Depends On Funding
Blog Downtown
Editorial: Echoes Of The Holocaust: France's National Railway Delivered Jews To The Nazis. It's Apologized, And Now Wants To Bid On A High-Speed Rail Project In California
Los Angeles Times
Editorial: Rail Sinkhole ("More federal cash would not make a bullet train a higher-priority need for California, nor would it answer the troubling questions that surround the proposal. Other states' rejection of federal funds for high-speed rail should serve as a sign to California to rethink a dubious project, not an invitation to grab more money.")
Riverside Press-Enterprise
European Import Has Cars Spinning. Heads, Too ("Armed with mounting data showing that roundabouts are safer, cheaper to maintain and friendlier to the environment, transportation experts around the country are persuading communities to replace traditional intersections with them. There's just one problem: Americans don't know how to navigate them.")
New York Times
GOP Wants To Bring Transpo Policy Back To The 1950s
StreetsBlog DC
In The U.S., Poor Communication And Poor Choices Plague Bus Rapid Transit
The City Fix
Metrolink Adding To Fleet Of Crash-Savvy Cars: The Commuter Railroad Is Buying 20 More Hyundai Rotem Co. Coaches, Which Will Make Up 137 Of 160 Passenger Cars. Some Of The State-Of-The-Art Passenger Units Will Be Rolled Out Next Month
Los Angeles Times
Opinion: Downtown Drops The Ball On Transit Stop
Los Angeles Downtown News
Opinion: Have You Tried The Gold Line Yet?: Yes Monrovians Need To Drive To Pasadena To Catch The Train To L.A., But Now's A Great Time To Practice Your Strap-Hanging Skills
Monrovia Patch
Sanchez Urges Feds To Ship Surplus Rail Funds To California
Voice Of OC
Schulz Named President Of Los Angeles Transportation Club
Daily Breeze
S.F. Solves Funding Quandary For Central Subway
San Francisco Chronicle
Some Hope Given To Those Who Endure Traffic Bottleneck at 57 / 60 Interchange In Diamond Bar ("Led by the city of Industry, the 57/60 Confluence Project promises to solve the problem of 16 lanes of traffic being squeezed into 12.")
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
South L.A. CicLAvia Community Meeting (December 9)
CicLAvia
To Thwart Distracted Driving, US Government Considers Cell Phone Jammers In Cars
Popular Science
Transportation Benefits Will Soon Be Cut In Half: Help Us Stop It
Transportation For America
Using Parking Fees To Reduce Street Consumption
StreetsBlog Network
What A Difference Two Years Makes, Warm Reception For Congestion Pricing In San Gabriel Valley
StreetsBlog LA
Work Starts On Orange Line Bikeway, Metro Mulls New Cycling Plans
Curbed LA
Would An Hourglass Traffic Light Work Better?
GOOD
Brigham Yen
Caltrans cited by EPA For Water Pollution
San Francisco Chronicle
Chat With Us 11/22: Living Car-Free In Southern California (today online, 3 - 4pm)
Southern California Public Radio
The Cold And The Dark ("If Art Leahy were to meet you at the Blue Line station or at one of the Rapid bus stops, introduce you to the Metro driver, and get a conversation among the passengers started, you might even consider putting your car aside once in a while and taking Metro. He's that good.")
KCET Departures
Congressional Reps Agree To Let Go Of Earmarks, Reluctantly ("Locally, the $1.8 billion Alameda Corridor East Construction Authority project to separate traffic from railroads is a popular target for earmark funds. But there is no funding category for so-called "grade separation" projects")
Whittier Daily News
Connections vs. Complexity ("The striking thing about the Los Angeles map is that most streets have only a single line on them, even though we are immediately south of downtown and you would expect many lines to be converging.")
Human Transit
Contrasting Visions Of Urban Transport: Critique Of "Fixing Transit: The Case For Privatization" (26p. PDF)
Victoria Transport Policy Institute
Dodger Stadium Express A Success, But Future Depends On Funding
Blog Downtown
Editorial: Echoes Of The Holocaust: France's National Railway Delivered Jews To The Nazis. It's Apologized, And Now Wants To Bid On A High-Speed Rail Project In California
Los Angeles Times
Editorial: Rail Sinkhole ("More federal cash would not make a bullet train a higher-priority need for California, nor would it answer the troubling questions that surround the proposal. Other states' rejection of federal funds for high-speed rail should serve as a sign to California to rethink a dubious project, not an invitation to grab more money.")
Riverside Press-Enterprise
European Import Has Cars Spinning. Heads, Too ("Armed with mounting data showing that roundabouts are safer, cheaper to maintain and friendlier to the environment, transportation experts around the country are persuading communities to replace traditional intersections with them. There's just one problem: Americans don't know how to navigate them.")
New York Times
GOP Wants To Bring Transpo Policy Back To The 1950s
StreetsBlog DC
In The U.S., Poor Communication And Poor Choices Plague Bus Rapid Transit
The City Fix
Metrolink Adding To Fleet Of Crash-Savvy Cars: The Commuter Railroad Is Buying 20 More Hyundai Rotem Co. Coaches, Which Will Make Up 137 Of 160 Passenger Cars. Some Of The State-Of-The-Art Passenger Units Will Be Rolled Out Next Month
Los Angeles Times
Opinion: Downtown Drops The Ball On Transit Stop
Los Angeles Downtown News
Opinion: Have You Tried The Gold Line Yet?: Yes Monrovians Need To Drive To Pasadena To Catch The Train To L.A., But Now's A Great Time To Practice Your Strap-Hanging Skills
Monrovia Patch
Sanchez Urges Feds To Ship Surplus Rail Funds To California
Voice Of OC
Schulz Named President Of Los Angeles Transportation Club
Daily Breeze
S.F. Solves Funding Quandary For Central Subway
San Francisco Chronicle
Some Hope Given To Those Who Endure Traffic Bottleneck at 57 / 60 Interchange In Diamond Bar ("Led by the city of Industry, the 57/60 Confluence Project promises to solve the problem of 16 lanes of traffic being squeezed into 12.")
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
South L.A. CicLAvia Community Meeting (December 9)
CicLAvia
To Thwart Distracted Driving, US Government Considers Cell Phone Jammers In Cars
Popular Science
Transportation Benefits Will Soon Be Cut In Half: Help Us Stop It
Transportation For America
Using Parking Fees To Reduce Street Consumption
StreetsBlog Network
What A Difference Two Years Makes, Warm Reception For Congestion Pricing In San Gabriel Valley
StreetsBlog LA
Work Starts On Orange Line Bikeway, Metro Mulls New Cycling Plans
Curbed LA
Would An Hourglass Traffic Light Work Better?
GOOD
11/19/2010
Gold Line Eastside Turns 1, Wilshire BRT, L.A. In Maps, Angels Flight Fare Increase?, Interactive Commuting Maps, L.A. H.S. Of Urban Planning & More
Arcadia Revises Downtown Vision
Pasadena Star-News
Buses Of The Future Unveiled At Vancouver Convention
Vancouver Sun
California Transit Agency Earns National Marketing Award For Cost Saving Text Messaging Program: Orange County Transportation Authority Edges Out Global Brands To Earn Title Of "Best Use Of Mobile Marketing: Relationship Building"
Business Wire
Can The Richest Neighborhoods Be Exempt From Bus Lanes? ("Richer cities Santa Monica and Beverly Hills are already not participating in the bus-only lane. Now, Metro and LA DOT must decide whether the richest section of the City of Los Angeles that the bus lane passes through will also be exempt.")
LA Subway Blog
Carmakers' Next Problem: Generation Y - People In Their Teens And Twenties Are More Interested In Gadgets Than Cars
MSNBC
China Completes World's Longest Bullet Line
Infrastructurist
Connection Penalties As "De Facto Redlining"?
Human Transit
Connection Fare Penalties: Why They Happen
Human Transit
Dutch Planners School U.S. Cities On Bikeability
StreetsBlog DC
Eastside Gold Line Reaches One Year Milestone ("One year later, it appears many East L.A. and Boyle Heights residents, as well as people from the surrounding communities, have adopted the light rail into their routines, local excursions and community activity commitments.")
EGP News
Federal Transit Programs: Federal Transit Administration Has Opportunities To Improve Performance Accountability
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Full-Text Report (46p. PDF)
Highways And Labor Markets
Planetizen
LADOT Westside Mobility Plan Study
Westside Today
Los Angeles In Maps & The Curious Case Of Miss Laura J. Whitlock
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Metro America's Commuting Methods: The Interactive Edition
Infrastructurist
Interactive: State Of Metropolitan America Indicator Map
Brookings
The New New Urbanists: Los Angeles' High School Of Urban Planning Welcomes Its Freshman Class (East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy of Urban Planning)
Metropolis
New Supermarket Coming To Downtown: Rio Ranch To Open Chinatown Area Grocery Store In 2011
Los Angeles Downtown News
NIMBY's In Westwood Threaten Wilshire BRT Project West Of Beverly Hills
StreetsBlog LA
Our View: Taking The Free From Our Freeways
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Project Delays Keep L.A. Metro's Budget In The Black
USC Annenberg Neon Tommy
Should Angels Flight Increase Its Quarter Fare?
Blog Downtown
Sustainable Housing, 30/10 And Public Transit In LA
Huffington Post
Train Makers Rail Against China's High-Speed Designs
Wall Street Journal
Villaraigosa Proposes Free Field Trip Travel For Students On MTA
Daily Breeze
Wilshire Bus Lane Battle On The Horizon
Curbed LA
Pasadena Star-News
Buses Of The Future Unveiled At Vancouver Convention
Vancouver Sun
California Transit Agency Earns National Marketing Award For Cost Saving Text Messaging Program: Orange County Transportation Authority Edges Out Global Brands To Earn Title Of "Best Use Of Mobile Marketing: Relationship Building"
Business Wire
Can The Richest Neighborhoods Be Exempt From Bus Lanes? ("Richer cities Santa Monica and Beverly Hills are already not participating in the bus-only lane. Now, Metro and LA DOT must decide whether the richest section of the City of Los Angeles that the bus lane passes through will also be exempt.")
LA Subway Blog
Carmakers' Next Problem: Generation Y - People In Their Teens And Twenties Are More Interested In Gadgets Than Cars
MSNBC
China Completes World's Longest Bullet Line
Infrastructurist
Connection Penalties As "De Facto Redlining"?
Human Transit
Connection Fare Penalties: Why They Happen
Human Transit
Dutch Planners School U.S. Cities On Bikeability
StreetsBlog DC
Eastside Gold Line Reaches One Year Milestone ("One year later, it appears many East L.A. and Boyle Heights residents, as well as people from the surrounding communities, have adopted the light rail into their routines, local excursions and community activity commitments.")
EGP News
Federal Transit Programs: Federal Transit Administration Has Opportunities To Improve Performance Accountability
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Full-Text Report (46p. PDF)
Highways And Labor Markets
Planetizen
LADOT Westside Mobility Plan Study
Westside Today
Los Angeles In Maps & The Curious Case Of Miss Laura J. Whitlock
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
Metro America's Commuting Methods: The Interactive Edition
Infrastructurist
Interactive: State Of Metropolitan America Indicator Map
Brookings
The New New Urbanists: Los Angeles' High School Of Urban Planning Welcomes Its Freshman Class (East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy of Urban Planning)
Metropolis
New Supermarket Coming To Downtown: Rio Ranch To Open Chinatown Area Grocery Store In 2011
Los Angeles Downtown News
NIMBY's In Westwood Threaten Wilshire BRT Project West Of Beverly Hills
StreetsBlog LA
Our View: Taking The Free From Our Freeways
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Project Delays Keep L.A. Metro's Budget In The Black
USC Annenberg Neon Tommy
Should Angels Flight Increase Its Quarter Fare?
Blog Downtown
Sustainable Housing, 30/10 And Public Transit In LA
Huffington Post
Train Makers Rail Against China's High-Speed Designs
Wall Street Journal
Villaraigosa Proposes Free Field Trip Travel For Students On MTA
Daily Breeze
Wilshire Bus Lane Battle On The Horizon
Curbed LA
11/18/2010
Best Transpo Inventions For 2010, Metrolink's New Railcars, OC Clean Tech, Perils Of Low Base Fares, Downtown Auto District & More
The 50 Best Inventions Of 2010 (A look at the 10 related to transportation)
Report: Letting Transit Tax Benefit Expire Will Throw Riders From The TrainTime
Amtrak's Beef-Powered Train
Google's Driverless Car
Martin Jetpack
Edison 2
Anthro Electric Car
Electric-Car Charging Stations
The Straddling Bus
Road-Embedded Rechargers
Terrafugia Transition
The Plastic Bottle Boat
57, 10 Freeways Listed As Candidates For Toll Lanes
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Achieving Traffic Safety Goals In The United States: Lessons From Other Nations (188p. PDF)
U.S. Transportation Research Board Special Report
City Debuts System To Improve Traffic Flow ("Murrieta has opened a new traffic-management nerve center in City Hall that allows technicians to manipulate traffic signals in real time.")
Riverside Press-Enterprise
DC's Bike Share Proliferation
Commute By Bike
Downtown Auto District Made Official
Los Angeles Downtown News
European Carmakers Get Into The Bicycle Business
StreetsBlog Network
How Much Money Does Public Transportation Save?
The City Fix
Is This Battery-Powered Subcompact The Future Of Car Sharing?
StreetsBlog Network
LADOT G.M. Search: StreetsBlog's Fab Four Of Fresh Faces That Should Be Considered
StreetsBlog LA
"Mapnificent": Your Freedom To Roam
Human Transit
Midterms Threaten Obama's Rail Plans
New York Times
National High Speed Rail Plan Unveiled, Despite Political Roadblocks
Reuters
New Rotem Cars Are "Ready To Roll"
Metrolink Trains Blog
Nothing Is Simple Down By The River
Blog Downtown
Orange County Hits Pay Dirt With Clean-Tech Industry: The Area Is Attracting Many Companies Focusing On Green Energy And Transportation. It Already Boasts About 300 Such Firms With 20,000 Jobs, Business Groups Say
Los Angeles Times
The Peril Of Low Base Fares ("Los Angeles County transit agencies also labor under a peculiar funding arrangement in which a certain countywide funding source is allocated according to fare revenue divided by base fare. So if you keep your base fare down (by charging for "extras," such as connections) you get more money from the county!")
Human Transit
Port Of Long Beach And Vision Sign Agreement For Zero Emission Truck Demonstration
Market Watch
Public Transportation Prices In 80 Worldwide Cities
Price Of Travel
Amtrak's Beef-Powered Train
Google's Driverless Car
Martin Jetpack
Edison 2
Anthro Electric Car
Electric-Car Charging Stations
The Straddling Bus
Road-Embedded Rechargers
Terrafugia Transition
The Plastic Bottle Boat
57, 10 Freeways Listed As Candidates For Toll Lanes
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Achieving Traffic Safety Goals In The United States: Lessons From Other Nations (188p. PDF)
U.S. Transportation Research Board Special Report
City Debuts System To Improve Traffic Flow ("Murrieta has opened a new traffic-management nerve center in City Hall that allows technicians to manipulate traffic signals in real time.")
Riverside Press-Enterprise
DC's Bike Share Proliferation
Commute By Bike
Downtown Auto District Made Official
Los Angeles Downtown News
European Carmakers Get Into The Bicycle Business
StreetsBlog Network
How Much Money Does Public Transportation Save?
The City Fix
Is This Battery-Powered Subcompact The Future Of Car Sharing?
StreetsBlog Network
LADOT G.M. Search: StreetsBlog's Fab Four Of Fresh Faces That Should Be Considered
StreetsBlog LA
"Mapnificent": Your Freedom To Roam
Human Transit
Midterms Threaten Obama's Rail Plans
New York Times
National High Speed Rail Plan Unveiled, Despite Political Roadblocks
Reuters
New Rotem Cars Are "Ready To Roll"
Metrolink Trains Blog
Nothing Is Simple Down By The River
Blog Downtown
Orange County Hits Pay Dirt With Clean-Tech Industry: The Area Is Attracting Many Companies Focusing On Green Energy And Transportation. It Already Boasts About 300 Such Firms With 20,000 Jobs, Business Groups Say
Los Angeles Times
The Peril Of Low Base Fares ("Los Angeles County transit agencies also labor under a peculiar funding arrangement in which a certain countywide funding source is allocated according to fare revenue divided by base fare. So if you keep your base fare down (by charging for "extras," such as connections) you get more money from the county!")
Human Transit
Port Of Long Beach And Vision Sign Agreement For Zero Emission Truck Demonstration
Market Watch
Public Transportation Prices In 80 Worldwide Cities
Price Of Travel
StreetsBlog
The Case To Maintain The Commuter Benefit Gap (6p. PDF)
Transit Center
South Pasadena Officials To Further Discuss 710 Freeway Extension
Pasadena Star-News
Transportation Reauthorization Bill Headed For Yet Another Extension
School Transportation News
Yaroslavsky, Katz Demand Changes To Wilshire Rapid Bus Lane Project
USC Annenberg Neon Tommy
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