Westside Subway, Complete Streets, Highway Bill, Urban Property, Green Line To LAX & More

App Lets Drivers Sell Public Parking Spots To Highest Bidder
DNA Info

A Back-To-School Syllabus For Complete Streets Advocates
StreetsBlog DC

Feinstein: "I Support Funding For The Westside Subway"
StreetsBlog LA

L.A. Under The Influence: The Hidden Logic Of Urban Property
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog

Libertarians And The Urban Planning Culture War
Forbes

Mica Opens Door To Short-Term Highway Bill
The Hill

Obama: Failing To Extend Highway Bill Inexcusable
Forbes

On Highway Funding, GOP Chairman Mica Agrees To Go Obama's Way
Huffington Post

President Obama Calls On Congress To Pass Transportation Measures To Protect Jobs (includes video and full transcript)
White House Blog

President Obama Pushes Congress For A Clean Extension Of Transpo Bill
StreetsBlog DC

Public Has Say On Light Rail Connection To LAX: Metro Is Gathering Feedback On A Way To Get Angelenos From Public Ground Transportation Directly To The Airport, But Don't Expect It To Come Down The Track Anytime Soon
Venice Patch

Santa Monica's Bergamot Transit Village Slims Down, Gets A Park
Curbed LA

Transportation Projects Create 4,600 O.C. Jobs
Orange County Register

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Metro Green Line, Mulholland Bridge, Peer-To-Peer Car Rental, Cost-Benefits Of Rail, Local Transit Jobs & More

7th Street Bike Lanes Make It To Downtown's Edge

Blog Downtown

Are Bike Lanes Expressways To Gentrification?

Shareable

Avoid Mulholland Bridge, MTA Urges: With Schools Reopening, Transportation Authorities Urge Motorists To Use Alternative Routes To Ease Traffic Crunch During Bridge Construction Work
Sherman Oaks Patch

Can Getaround Convince People To Rent Their Cars To Strangers? ("Car sharing isn't new, but what if it was your car that was being shared? A new crop of peer-to-peer hourly car rental companies are popping up--can they gain traction?")

Fast Company

Checking Out Local Fauna With A 15-Year-Old Birding Expert (audio : "Jose spends his summers scoping out Los Angeles' top birding destinations, and he does it all using public transit.")

Southern California Public Radio

Context-Sensitive Solutions In Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares For Walkable Communities: An ITE Proposed Recommended Practice (7p. PDF)

Institute Of Transportation Engineers

Deuling Academics On Cost-Benefit Of Rail

Human Transit

FixMyTransport Uses Crowdsourcing To Solve Travel Problems: Website Will Notify Operators When Commuters Have Complaints About Rail, Bus, Tube And Ferry Services

Guardian (U.K.)

From One Crisis To The Next: Congress Must Pass A Transportation Bill For All Users

Planetizen

Green Line To LAX Picture Coming Into Focus
CityWatch

Obama To Urge Approval Of Stop-Gap Air, Road Bills

Reuters

An Opportunity We Can't Afford To Miss? ("Our infrastructure is crumbling, and we know we’ll have to rebuild it in the coming years. Why do it later, when it will cost us more and we very likely won’t have massive unemployment in the construction sector, as opposed to now, when the market will pay us to invest in our infrastructure and we have an unemployment crisis to address?")

Washington Post

SFMTA Tries New Bike Lane Treatments To Keep Cyclists Clear Of Door Zone
StreetsBlog SF

State Bill Would Eliminate Two-Thirds Majority Vote To Approve Anti-Congestion Fee

Beverly Hills Courier

Villaraigosa Lobbies Washington With Jobs Plan: The Los Angeles Mayor Wants To Give Local Workers An Advantage In Winning Some Of The 166,000 Jobs Expected From Transportation Projects ("Federal rules prohibit local hiring preferences on federally funded transportation projects, under the premise that all U.S. taxpayers help to pay for the work and should have an equal shot at getting the jobs. The rule also stems from concern that making local hiring a factor in awarding contracts will increase the cost of projects. But with Washington jittery about unemployment heading into an election year, the mayor has received a positive signal from the administration. Hovering at 12%, California's unemployment rate is the second highest in the nation.")

Los Angeles Times

White House To Push New Highway Bill

The Hill

With Deadlines Looming, Mica Supports Transportation Extension
StreetsBlog DC

Work On Harbor (110) Freeway Lanes To Cause Some Overnight Closures

Daily Breeze

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The Source, Football & Transit, ThinkBike Los Angeles, Fuel Taxes & VMT, SB 375 & More

Can Taxing trucks By The Mile Help Save Transportation Funding?
Stateline

Dutch Bikeway Design Experts Ride Into L.A. To Host "ThinkBike Los Angeles"
LAist

Editorial: Brown Must Be Bold To Bolster High-Speed Rail
Sacramento Bee

From Fuel Taxes To Mileage-Based User Fees: Rationale, Technology, And Transitional Issues
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog

Getting The Reporting Right On HSR Cost Estimates
California High Speed Rail Blog

The Great Stadium Shuffle: Cities And Architects Across California Jockey For Major Football Projects (transit and transportation interface discussed)
Architect's Newspaper

How Many Fans Would Take Transit To A Football Game? ("Is car-happy Los Angeles capable of envisioning a future where three-quarters of football fans arrive at Farmers Field via transit?")
Blog Downtown

Impacts Of Public Policy On The Freight Transportation System (114p. PDF)
National Cooperative Freight Research Program

Metro's The Source Wins First Place ("For 2011, Metro's The Source takes First place in Group 3 of APTA's 2011 Annual AdWheel Awards competition for the Social Media - Blogs category.")
Plus Metro

Need A Parking Space? Look In Your Hand
NPR

New Legislation Seeks To Lower Voter Threshold For Transit Tax Approval
StreetsBlog LA

New Road Signs Will Now Wait ("The administration plans to issue a proposal Tuesday to eliminate dozens of deadlines for replacing traffic signs to comply with safety standards initiated under the Bush administration, saying that communities should not be forced to install the new signs until the old ones wear out.")
New York Times

No Public Transit? No Job
Wired

SB 375 Draws Ire Of Tea Party ("While the Tea Party movement has been trying to “take back America” on the national stage since the election of Barack Obama, Tea Party activists have also turned their attention to taking back California – and, specifically, Senate Bill 375, the 2008 law that seeks to combat climate change by promoting density in the state’s metro regions.")
California Planning & Development Report

Senator Boxer Touts Clean Energy, Transportation In Santa Clarita
Southern California Public Radio

Well That's A Relief: Hurricane Irene Shouldn't Affect Gas Prices Much
StreetsBlog DC

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Lessons From Irene, Green Line LAX, Bike Sharing, PPPs In High-Speed Rail, 710, Metrolink & More

Big Blue Bus Service Changes Begin Today

Santa Monica Mirror

Bike Sharing In Los Angeles: Let's Not Stick With The Conventional Wisdom

KCET

A Break On Your MetroCard Because Of Storm? [New York] M.T.A. Says No

New York Times

California May Ban Bicyclists From Making Calls Too

Chicago Sun-Times

Can Pay-Per-Mile Driving Programs Work? ("Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood got a spanking when he suggested one, but test programs have received positive responses from drivers. Like it or not, with gas tax revenue declining it may be the only option.")

Fast Company

Commuters In Line For Long Rides: Restarting The City's Transit System Proves To Be A Complicated Process

Wall Street Journal

Doing Right By The Public: PPPs In High-Speed Rail ("As the retrenchment continues in the American public sector, private-sector investors are likely to play an important role in paying for fast train systems.")

Transport Politic

Editorial: Rail Needs Aggressive Political Leadership: System Must Be Part Of State's Transit Plan

Fresno Bee

Fear And Questions Hitch A Ride On The Red Line: Trying To Make Sense Of Last Week's Fatal Stabbing Becomes A Journey Without Answers, Underground With Other People Headed Somewhere In L.A.

Los Angeles Times

High Above The Freeway, A Slow Road Ahead: After L.A. Escaped The "Carmageddon" Gridlock Expected From The Closure Of Interstate 405, Residents And Commuters Along Mulholland Drive Fear They're In For Two Years Of Motoring Mayhem

Los Angeles Times

High-Speed Rail's Costs Keep Rising

Fresno Bee

LAX Rail Access: Still Crazy After All These Years

CityWatch

Legislature To Conduct Audit Of Caltrans' 710 Freeway Properties In San Gabriel Valley

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

Lessons From Brooklyn For The LA Department Of Transportation

Urban Times

Media Reacts To Jerry Brown's HSR Advocacy

California High Speed Rail Blog

Metro Puts Out New Video About Green Line To LAX, Acts Like It's Traffic's Fault You Can't Take Public Transit To The Airport

LAist

Metrolink: Operator Shirking Crash Responsibility

Sacramento Bee

Metrolink Spars With Former Train Operator Over 2008 Crash

Ventura County Star

[New York] MTA Offers Photographs Of Irene-Wrecked Stations, Tracks

Gothamist

New York Subway Running In Time For Morning Commute

New York Times

Next-Gen Data And Information Frameworks For ITS (Intelligent transportation systems)

Terranautix

Obama Seeks New Infrastructure For Job Creation

CBS News

Portland Plans For Transit All Powered By Electricity

New York Times

Previewing The 2011 Business Plan

California High Speed Rail Blog

The Remote Chance For More Transportation Stimulus Spending Has Been Extinguished

Transportation Issues Daily

Riverside Drops LA, Long Beach Port Suits

Riverside Press-Enterprise

State Auditor To Probe Caltrans-Owned Homes Near 710 Freeway

La Canada Valley Sun

What's It Going To Take? An Earthquake? ("Can transportation break through the mayhem? Will the gas tax be subjected to scrutiny and ridicule by Republican fiscal hawks? Or will it skate through unnoticed as part of the continuing resolution? Will the job creation in transportation resonate enough to engage lawmakers in maintaining the highway trust fund? Short of another earthquake, is there any hope for retaining current surface transportation spending levels?")

National Journal Transportation Experts Blog

Will Irene Raise Gas Prices Across The Country?

Infrastructurist

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L.A.'s Cable Cars, Sunset Junction Streetcars, Culver City Congestion, Boyle Heights Pollution, Metro Art, Hurricane Irene & More

Before Hurricane Irene Hits, New York Planning To Shut Down Transportation System, Evacuate Areas ("The MTA took the unprecedented move of setting its hurricane plan in motion, which calls for a complete shutdown of subways, trains and buses.")

New York Daily News

A Brief History Of Sunset Junction: Street Cars, Gay Rights And Its Namesake Festival
LA as Subject via KCET

Cashing In On Rubble From The 2nd Avenue Subway

Transportation Nation

China Invests $199 Billion For Urban Rail Through 2015: Report

Chicago Tribune

Culver City Will Conform To Congestion Reduction Rules: City Council Votes Unanimously To Comply With County Standards That Will Ensure City's Share Of Gasoline Tax Revenues

Los Angeles Wave

A Generational Shift In Driving? National Survey Shows Sharp Decline In Driving Among Younger Americans

Sightline

Gov. Jerry Brown Makes Another Appointment To CHSRA Board ("This time the appointee is Michael Rossi, the wealthy financial executive who Brown had just recently tapped as his jobs advisor.")

California High Speed Rail Blog

Historic Los Angeles Neighborhood Continues To Bear The Brunt Of Air Pollution

Newsdesk

State Of The Air 2011 (177p. PDF)

American Lung Association

Lawsuit Filed To Halt Perris Valley Line Project

Riverside Press-Enterprise

Left-Right Coalition Lists Counterproductive Programs To Cut ("Also on the list is a proposed tunnel to route the I-710 freeway under Pasadena.")

San Francisco Chronicle

Green Scissors 2011: Cutting Wasteful And Environmentally Harmful Spending (28p. PDF)

Friends Of The Earth / Taxpayers For Common Sense / Public Citizen / Heartland Institute

A Look Back At 1880s Cable Car Service In Los Angeles
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog

Majority Leader Eric Cantor Eyes Bike Share Funding For Federal Cuts

StreetsBlog LA

Making Change On North Figueroa Street

StreetsBlog LA

Metro Brings Artists To Local Libraries

USC Annenberg Intersections South LA

Should A "Walkers Paradise" Save Plenty Of Room For Parking?

New York Times

Transportation Planning And Climate Change (video : UCI Professor of Planning, Policy and Design asks "If we built cities differently, would people drive less?")

University of California, Irvine via YouTube

US Cities Embrace The Bicycle

Bike Radar

Without Congressional Action, State Transportation Projects May Come To Complete Stop

TMC

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Westside Subway Funding, High-Speed Amtrak, L.A. Football Stadium, Bergamot Station, 710 Corridor, Gardena Buses, Mulholland Bridge & More

2010 Urban Congestion Trends: Enhancing System Reliability With Operations (8p. PDF)

Federal Highway Administration

Amtrak Advances High-Speed Plans, Ignores Calls For Privatization

The Hill

APTA: Transit Investment Falloff Hurts Business

Railway Age

The Ball Is In Play: State Senate Committee To Discuss L.A. Football Stadium

LAist

BART Officials Craft Policy For Cutting Cellphone Service: A Policy Being Developed By Bay Area Transit Officials Would Allow BART To Cut Cellphone Service In Its Stations Only Under Extreme Circumstances

Los Angeles Times

Bergamot Station Gallery Owners Guardedly Optimistic About New Transit Station

Santa Monica Lookout

Can You Get There From Here? ("For those considering a move to the city — or even just to a new neighborhood — proximity to a subway station is only the first step in determining how easy it will be to get around. You will also need to know how frequently and reliably a subway runs, and whether you’ll be plagued by weekend service interruptions or reroutings.")

New York Times

Distorted Maps Visualize Congestion And Pollution

The City Fix

Feinstein: "No One Knows Where" Federal Funds For Subway Extension Will Come From

Westwood-Century City Patch

Gov. Brown Places His Jobs Advisor On Bullet Train Board

Los Angeles Times

Is This The World's Greenest Neighborhood? (Plantinum LEED ratings, carbon-neutral residential units, windmills, solar panels and other renewal energy technology throughout are just some of the features in what may be the most sustainable neighborhood on earth)

Natural Resources Defense Council Switchboard Blog

Legislature Greenlights Audit Of Caltrans-Owned Properties Along 710 Corridor

Pasadena Star-News

Life Cycle Assessment Of Transportation Options For Commuters (16p. PDF)

Massachusetts Institute Of Technology

Meeting Explores Ways Of Connecting Metro Light Rail System To LAX

Daily Breeze

Metro, LADOT And Caltrans Warn Of Traffic Congestion On Mulholland Drive Bridge

Van Nuys News Press

New Service On Gardena Bus Lines

Rafu Shimpo

Opinion: Drivers, Want More Space On The Road? Push For Bike Lanes

Globe And Mail (Canada)

Photos Of Dangerous Streets Have Been Streaming In

Transportation For America

Possible Stops For The LAX People Mover Most Everyone Wants

Curbed LA

Public Offers Suggestions For Green Line-LAX Link

Long Beach Press-Telegram

Roadway Measurement System Evaluation (38p. PDF)

Strategic Highway Research Program

See The Most Ridiculous Parking Restriction Sign Ever

Curbed LA

Southbound Lanes Of The 405 To Close Again: The Work Is Part Of The Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project Which Will Add A 10-Mile HOV Lane

NBC Los Angeles

West Hollywood Supports Federal Bill Aimed At Curbing Helicopter Noise Pollution

LAist

What's Better For The Environment: Raising The Gas Tax Or Fuel-Efficiency Standards?

Infrastructurist

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Expo Line Public Art, Downtown LA Demographics, BBB Changes, High Speed Rail, AB650, LAX, Murals & More

AASHTO President Martinovich Stresses Urgency Of Sustaining Federal Transportation Funding At Current Levels

PRNewswire

"Beach Bus" Set To Close For The Season: The Popular Service Set To Close Out Another Year After Once More Holding Its Prices Down

La Canada Valley Sun

Big Blue Bus Schedule Changes ("Beginning Sunday, August 28, the Big Blue Bus (BBB) will launch changes to nine of its 20 services.")

Santa Monica Dispatch

Congress Heads For Another Showdown Over Transportation Funding

Washington Post

Correcting L.A.'s Stated Bikeway Mileage

L.A. Eco-Village Blog

Critical Cameras On Buses Not Working

Santa Monica Daily Press

Downtown Los Angeles Demographic Study 2011 (91p. PDF)
Downtown Center Business Improvement District

Earthquake Throws Commuting Into Chaos

Washington Post

Expo Line Station Artwork Ready For You To Judge

Curbed LA

Expo Design Elements

Build Expo

For And Against High-Speed Rail, Part VI: California Cost-Overrun Edition

Infrastructurist

Generic Continuity Of Operations / Continuity Of Government Plan For State-Level Transportation Agencies (107p. PDF)

Mineta Transportation Institute

Ideas For Downtown LA: Giving Pedestrians First Priority For The Metropolis Project

Brigham Yen

Infrastructure Whistle-Blowing (Infrastructure costs are towering in the U.S., but much of that could be because of old habits in road building. This column looks at how cities and states can reduce their infrastructure costs)

Citiwire

Interview With Donald Shoup: Los Angeles Making Strides With ExpressPark

StreetsBlog LA

It's Time To Think Big On Transit ("Assembly Bill (AB) 650 establishes a blue ribbon task force to craft a public transportation development plan for California based on an assessment of what transit we have, what amount of transit we need, and how we can finance transit construction. The task force will be composed of 12 experts in finance, transit, the environment, and public health who must complete their plan by September 30, 2012. This work would be undertaken, in part, through workshops conducted across the state. And, it would be financed from existing transit moneys provided through California’s gas tax, specifically those devoted to transit planning.")

California Progress Report

Metro To Hold First Meeting On LAX Connection

Southern California Public Radio

MTA Hold Public Input Meeting On Connecting Transit System To LAX

Beverly Hills Courier

NBC Universal: Don't Tinker With Small Traffic Improvements -- Cut Down The Cars
Studio City Patch

New Report: There Are Now 1 Billion Cars On The Road

Infrastructurist

Park[ing] Day L.A. Gets In Gear For September 16th

LAist

Public Art Replicas On The 101: Mural Or Not A Mural?
KCET

Roads Bill Gets Another Look ("The White House and congressional Democrats are working on a plan to jump-start passage of a stalled highway bill as the administration reworks part of its strategy for responding to high unemployment.")

Wall Street Journal

SGV Lawmakers Support Gold Line Board Members In Conflict-Of-Interest Battle

Pasadena Star-News

Study: More Downtowners With More Jobs Riding More Transit
Curbed LA

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