5 Cities Where Mass Transit Riders Are Richer Than DriversThe Atlantic: Cities
$200,000 Grant For CicLAvia Approved by L.A. City CouncilKCET
An Analysis Of Proposed U.S. House Of Representatives Actions And Their Impact On Public Transportation (13p. PDF)
APTA
Announcing The October 9, 2011 Route! (10.5 miles of Los Angeles streets will be closed this Sunday between East Hollywood and Boyle Heights for CicLAvia)
CicLAvia
MapBike Spaces Could Replace Some Car ParkingEGP News
Calif. High-Speed Authority To Issue Revised EIR/EISMetro Magazine
Can High Speed Rail Be Saved?Infrastructurist
City Agrees To Loan $20 Million Toward Freeway Construction: Plan To Add Lanes To 101/23 Interchange Still Needs Federal Grant To ProceedThousand Oaks Acorn
City Council Hires Consultant For Peer Review Of Westside Subway Extension's Final Environmental Impact Report And Statement (p.4 of 20p. PDF)
Beverly Hills Weekly
City Declines BHUSD's Request For MTA Joint Defense Agreement (p.4 of 20p. PDF)
Beverly Hills Weekly
Combating Obesity With Street DesignThe Atlantic: Cities
Construction Authority Awarded Millions In Federal Grants For Station Area ImprovementsSacramento Bee
The Cost Of Congestion, The Value Of Transit (What would happen if all public transportation stopped? Several charts and graphics for cities around the U.S. tell the story)
Urbanophile
Council Still Refuses "United Front" To Fight SubwayBeverly Hills Courier via Google Docs
The Family Guide To CicLAviaStreetsBlog LA
Fight On For UCLA: Rejecting A Westwood-Adjacent Subway StationHuffington Post
Grant To Help Fight Port PollutionDowney Beat
High-Speed Rail Authority Hires First Liaison To Work With State LegislatureSan Francisco Examiner
How A Bill That Is Supposed To Boost The Downtown Stadium Could Actually Help The Subway To The WestsideLAist
How High Speed Rail Is Crucial To The [San Joaquin] Valley's Economic FutureCalifornia High Speed Rail Blog
How Technology Can Reduce Traffic Congestion And Air PollutionSmart Planet
Implementing Distance-Based User Fees As A Replacement For The Fuel Tax (free webinar : October 20)
University Of Minnesota Center For Transportation Studies
Infrastructure Bank To Get A House HearingThe Hill
Integrating Business Processes To Improve Travel Time Reliability (91p. PDF)
Strategic Highway Research Program
Is Obama's National Infrastructure Bank The Answer On Jobs?U.S. News & World Report
Marginal Cost Pricing And Subsidy Of Transit In Small Urban Areas (44p. PDF)
Small Urban & Rural Transit Center, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, North Dakota State University
Model Design Manual For Living Streets (384p. PDF : Highly-anticipated document from the County of Los Angeles: "This manual is based on complete streets principles that design streets for people of all ages and physical abilities and accommodate all travel modes. The manual goes beyond complete streets to living streets. Living streets principles embody complete streets and also include consideration of other issues related to economic vibrancy, equity, environmental sustainability, aesthetics, and more. This manual offers another way to design streets and provides guidance for those municipalities that decide to adopt these principles. The result will be more livable neighborhoods with healthier residents due to opportunities for active transportation (walking and cycling).")
Los Angeles County Department Of Public Health
Manual's homepage with more informationNew Urbanists: No Economic Recovery Without Smart GrowthStreetsBlog DC
Northern California vs. Southern California: Who Runs The Golden State?Huffington Post
The Once And Future Rail ("Projected to complete construction in 2015, Phase 2 of the Expo Line will continue further west along the Exposition Corridor. Exposition Corridor is right-of-way that used to house a line of the old Pacific Electric Railway, a mass transit system that served Southern California from 1901 to 1961. This section of the Expo Line would finally provide a direct route from Downtown L.A. to the Pacific Ocean.")
Corsair
Port Will Not Challenge Appeals Court Ruling On Clean Trucks ProgramDaily Breeze
Predicting Walkability (114p. PDF : "This research project fills some of the ‘walking’ knowledge gap and provides practitioners with a technique to quantify the quality of the pedestrian environment in a way that is similar to that which is used for other modes of travel.")
New Zealand Transport Agency Research Report
Reinventing The Urban Interstate: A New Paradigm For Multimodal Corridors (158p. PDF)
Transit Cooperative Research Program
Research: Mapping The Impact Of Traffic On The Livability Of StreetsInfosthetics
SFPark To Base Meter Rates On DemandSan Francisco Chronicle
State Agency Bans Rail Transit Operators From Using All Portable Wireless Devices ("The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday unanimously adopted a regulation prohibiting the use of cell phones by rail transit operators and requiring the installation of cameras to enforce the rule. The CPUC approved the regulation at its meeting in Los Angeles, making permanent an interim emergency order issued in September 2008.")
Silicon Valley Mercury News
Testing Algorithms for A Passenger Train Braking Performance Model (4p. PDF)
Federal Railroad Administration Office Of Railroad Policy And Development
A Walk On The Risky Side: Three Sisters Headed To School Were Hit By A Car In A Crosswalk, But It's A Risk L.A. Traffic Policies Accept In Certain NeighborhoodsLos Angeles Times
Who Will Design And Build Future Transportation Network?Transportation Issues Daily
Why A Fix-It-First Policy Is Critical In Transportation InvestmentsNatural Resources Defense Council Switchboard Blog
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