May 1: This Date In Los Angeles Transportation History (The city gets its first female streetcar conductor 95 years ago today; Los Angeles Motor Coach Company, which operated double-decker buses on Wilshire Boulevard, among other lines, is dissolved)
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
The 10 Best New Complete Streets Policies In The U.S. ("Cities across the country are making plans to cater to bikers and pedestrians (along with cars) as they design and manage their transportation infrastructure. These 10 cities are the ones doing it best." Three California cities land in the top 10)
Fast Company Exist
16 Rules For "Smarter" Smart Growth
The Atlantic: Cities
Advocates Honor LaHood's Time At Transportation Department (audio)
NPR
Anthony Foxx Hoping For A Smoother Political Ride At DOT
Washington Post
Baby Born In Mexico City Subway Station Gets Free Transportation For Life
Fox Latino
Council OKs Moving LAX Runway As Part Of $4.76-Billion Upgrade ("Supporters praise approval of the modernization project, but opponents promise another legal battle over moving the runway closer to homes.")
Los Angeles Times
A Dear Abby For Transportation Secretaries: Advice From Foxx's Predecessors ("Yesterday, the University of Virginia’s Miller Center invited six former transportation secretaries to talk about the possibilities of presidential influence over transportation and to give advice to Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx, whose nomination for the job was announced that same day.")
StreetsBlog DC
#DearMayor: LA Voters Look For Relief From City's Pot Holes
KPCC Southern California Public Radio
Does President Obama Have The Power To Influence Transportation Policy?
StreetsBlog DC
Eyes On The Street: Every Lane Is A Bus Lane
StreetsBlog LA
Foxx To Give Mayors "One Of Their Own" At U.S. Department Of Transportation
Memphis Business Journal
Gold Line Construction: More Lane Closures Ahead On Colorado, Santa Anita Ahead
Arcadia Patch
LACMTA Proposes Nearly $5 Billion Budget For FY2014
Progressive Railroading
L.A. Council Approves LAX Runway Plan As Part Of Modernization
Los Angeles Times
May Day Rally To Shut Down DTLA Streets
Blog Downtown
Metro To Hold Public Hearing Wednesday, May 15, On Proposed FY14 Budget
Metro News Release
Proposed Budget, Fiscal Year 2014 (July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014) (64p. PDF)
The Mt. Lowe Railway's Thrilling, Terrifying Circular Bridge (An image from the Metro Transportation Library's Archive is the focus of this story about the sheer 1,000 foot drop from the rail tracks on Mt. Lowe)
LA as Subject via Los Angeles Magazine
Obama Selects A Mayor For DOT Secretary -- But Not Villaraigosa
California Planning And Development Report
Opinion: Leimert Park Village Deserves A Rail Station ("Metro can include a stop there on the Crenshaw-to-LAX light-rail line. It has the money. But does it have the will to do the right thing?" by Mark Ridley-Thomas)
Los Angeles Times
Pedestrian Safety: A Road Safety Manual For Decision-Makers And Practitioners (132p. PDF)
World Health Organization
Predicting U.S. Transportation Policy Under Future Secretary Foxx ("A roundup of what key observers are saying about Foxx's record, and what his appoinment means for transportation policy during Obama's second term.")
Planetizen
Rail Planners Aim To Re-"Train" L.A.'s Car Culture (audio & transcript. Expo Line)
NPR
Responding To Spate Of Train Deaths, SEPTA To Hold Training
Philadelphia Inquirer
SmartGAP User's Guide (68p. PDF : "SmartGAP is a scenario planning software tool that synthesizes households and
firms in a region and determines their travel demand characteristics based
on
their built environment and transportation policies.")
Strategic Highway Research Program
Transit Station And Stop Adoption Programs (68p. PDF : "Adopt-a-stop programs, in which volunteers agree to pick up litter at transit stations and assist in other maintenance tasks, can be a valuable resource for public transportation agencies. These programs aim to create a sense of ownership within the community, enhance the appearance of stations, and improve safety and security for passengers. Most programs of this sort are fairly new, and there is little research about how to structure them or how they can be made most effective. This synthesis helps to fill these gaps by describing the varied features of adopt-a-stop programs now in place, how they work, and the results that they have had.")
Transit Cooperative Research Program
Westwood Bike Lane Proposal Effectively Addresses Traffic Concerns
UCLA Daily Bruin
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4/30/2013
Gold Line Azusa, Sepulveda Pass Tunnel?, ONT, Subway Cell Service, Figueroa Overhaul, Bike Lanes, Traffic Engineering, Electric Bikes & More
The Administration Refreshes Its Push For A Major Infusion Of Funds Into The National Rail Program
The Transport Politic
An App To Help You Navigate The Many, Many Car-Share And Transit Options Out There
The Atlantic: Cities
APTA Applauds Selection Of Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx As Next U.S. Secretary Of Transportation
APTA Press Release
Are We There Yet? The Bias Of Traffic Engineering
Reconnecting America
The Big Leap From Car-Lite To Car-Free
StreetsBlog Network
CA Legislation: Public Agency Immunity For Bike Lanes Tabled
Cyclicio.us
California Bullet Train Groundbreaking Faces New Obstacles ("Challenges are coming from a private railroad, a legislative committee and a powerful federal agency asserting authority over the project.")
Los Angeles Times
City Hoping To Extend LA River Bike Path To Sepulveda Basin
Curbed LA
The Coming Bold Transformation Of The American City
The Atlantic: Cities
The Copenhagenize Index: 2013 Bicycle Friendly Cities (The 20 most bicycle-friendly cities in the world, ranked with explanations)
Copenhagenize
Electric Bikes, A Rising Force On Urban Transit Landscape -- 38 Million Units Per Year By 2020
Clean Technica
Elon Musk Invests Money To Speed Up Highway Construction (video)
KABC Los Angeles
Expanding Car-Share Beyond America's Biggest Cities
StreetsBlog DC
Eyes On The Street: New Bike Lanes And Continental Crosswalks From Wilshire To Cesar Chavez On Figueroa
StreetsBlog LA
Gold Line Extension To Close Azusa Avenue For Three Months
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
How Does Anthony Foxx's Transportation Experience Compare To Past USDOT Secretaries?
Transportation Issues Daily
LA Mayoral Candidates Talk About Possible Tunnel Under Sepulveda Pass
CBS Los Angeles
Long Beach: City (Finally) Releases Public-Private RFQ For New Civic Center
StreetsBlog LA
New App Links Music To OC Transpo Route (Ontario, Canada)
CBC News (Canada)
Obama Praises LaHood As "Maybe The Best Secretary Of Transportation" In U.S. History
The Hill
Opinion: High-Speed Rail Plan Is On The Right Track (Hasan Ikrata, Director of SCAG)
San Bernardino Sun
The Overwhelming Proliferation Of Car-Sharing Companies ("The transportation industry is squarely in the crosshairs of the tech start-up industry, and the fruits of their disruption were on full display at this year's South by Southwest...Panels with names like "Transportation Apps and the Sharing Economy" and "Damn the Man! Disrupting Regulated Industries" featured the founders of Lyft and Zimride (ride-sharing), Wheelz and Getaround (car-sharing), and Flywheel (taxi-hailing).")
The Atlantic
President Obama Nominates Mayor Anthony Foxx As 17th Secretary Of Transportation
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Private-Sector Mentality Thriving At OCTA
Public CEO
Silicon Valley's High-Tech Buses: Just Transit? Or Chariots Of The Übergeeks
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The Transport Politic
An App To Help You Navigate The Many, Many Car-Share And Transit Options Out There
The Atlantic: Cities
APTA Applauds Selection Of Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx As Next U.S. Secretary Of Transportation
APTA Press Release
Are We There Yet? The Bias Of Traffic Engineering
Reconnecting America
The Big Leap From Car-Lite To Car-Free
StreetsBlog Network
CA Legislation: Public Agency Immunity For Bike Lanes Tabled
Cyclicio.us
California Bullet Train Groundbreaking Faces New Obstacles ("Challenges are coming from a private railroad, a legislative committee and a powerful federal agency asserting authority over the project.")
Los Angeles Times
City Hoping To Extend LA River Bike Path To Sepulveda Basin
Curbed LA
The Coming Bold Transformation Of The American City
The Atlantic: Cities
The Copenhagenize Index: 2013 Bicycle Friendly Cities (The 20 most bicycle-friendly cities in the world, ranked with explanations)
Copenhagenize
Electric Bikes, A Rising Force On Urban Transit Landscape -- 38 Million Units Per Year By 2020
Clean Technica
Elon Musk Invests Money To Speed Up Highway Construction (video)
KABC Los Angeles
Expanding Car-Share Beyond America's Biggest Cities
StreetsBlog DC
Eyes On The Street: New Bike Lanes And Continental Crosswalks From Wilshire To Cesar Chavez On Figueroa
StreetsBlog LA
Gold Line Extension To Close Azusa Avenue For Three Months
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
How Does Anthony Foxx's Transportation Experience Compare To Past USDOT Secretaries?
Transportation Issues Daily
LA Mayoral Candidates Talk About Possible Tunnel Under Sepulveda Pass
CBS Los Angeles
Long Beach: City (Finally) Releases Public-Private RFQ For New Civic Center
StreetsBlog LA
New App Links Music To OC Transpo Route (Ontario, Canada)
CBC News (Canada)
Obama Praises LaHood As "Maybe The Best Secretary Of Transportation" In U.S. History
The Hill
Opinion: High-Speed Rail Plan Is On The Right Track (Hasan Ikrata, Director of SCAG)
San Bernardino Sun
The Overwhelming Proliferation Of Car-Sharing Companies ("The transportation industry is squarely in the crosshairs of the tech start-up industry, and the fruits of their disruption were on full display at this year's South by Southwest...Panels with names like "Transportation Apps and the Sharing Economy" and "Damn the Man! Disrupting Regulated Industries" featured the founders of Lyft and Zimride (ride-sharing), Wheelz and Getaround (car-sharing), and Flywheel (taxi-hailing).")
The Atlantic
President Obama Nominates Mayor Anthony Foxx As 17th Secretary Of Transportation
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Private-Sector Mentality Thriving At OCTA
Public CEO
Silicon Valley's High-Tech Buses: Just Transit? Or Chariots Of The Übergeeks
KQED
WNYC
Daily Breeze
The Atlantic: Cities
The Hill
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Using Pictograms To Make Transit Easier To Navigate For Customers With Communication Barriers (99p. PDF)
Transit Cooperative Research Program
The Atlantic: Cities
Governing
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4/29/2013
Foxx Tapped For DOT, HOV Lanes, SaMo Airport, SF Subway, 405 Costs, Transpo Cameras, Leimert Park Station & More
April 29: This Date In Los Angeles Transportation History (One of the earliest monorail proposals for Los Angeles suggests the city utilize suspended railcars from freeway medians along with "underground tubes"; bus operators and other transit employees respond heroically to six days of civil disturbances)
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
93% Of U.S. Transport Remains Reliant On Oil
Face The Facts USA
Antonio Villaraigosa And Chuck Reed: Fix The California Environmental Quality Act Now
Los Angeles Daily News
Assemblyman's Bill Would Open Carpool Lanes On 134, 210 Freeways To Single-Occupancy Drivers
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Bailey Streetscape Project
Los Angeles Wave
Bids To Build SF Central Subway Are $100 Million Over City's Estimates
KALW
Bigwigs, Locals City Council To Discuss Shuttering SaMo Airport
Curbed LA
Bike Sharing Programs Hit The Streets In Over 500 Cities Worldwide
Treehugger
Global Bike-Sharing Fleet Tops 500,000 Bicycles
Environment News Service
Biking Boom Prompts A Wave Of Non-Pedaling Adults To Sign Up For Lessons
Washington Post
Congress Indulges In Crazy Talk About De-Funding Transit And Taxing Bikes
StreetsBlog DC
Editorial: 405 Users Avoided Carmageddon, And This Is The Price We Pay?
Los Angeles Daily News
Federal Funding: Don't Read This, It's Too Depressing ("The Highway Trust Fund will go “broke” in early 2015.")
Transportation Issues Daily
How CicLAvia Engaged Angelenos In The Space And Place Of L.A.
KCET
LA City Councilman Wants Access For LAPD To Traffic Cameras Following Boston Marathon Bombings ("Councilman Mitchell Englander introduced a motion Wednesday, asking police and transportation officials to look into how compatible the current systems are and how they may be integrated.")
KPCC Southern California Public Radio
LA Designer Transforms Sequined Art Into Billboard Bling ("People who have visited SFO’s BART station or the Raleigh Convention Center are familiar with the “shimmer wall” art installation — a technique created by Ned Kahn that uses a huge grid of small, dangling squares of reflective metal to create a display that ripples with the gentlest breeze.")
Wired
LA Metro Board Ditches $3 Monthly Fee For Freeway Toll Lane Transponders
KPCC Southern California Public Radio
LA Metro Considers Leimert Park Train Station As Part Of Light Rail Project
KPCC Southern California Public Radio
LA Metro To Hold Industry Forum For Sepulveda Pass Corridor ("On May 1, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) will hold an industry forum to present initial concepts for several multimodal P3 projects that are being considered for the Sepulveda Pass Corridor in Los Angeles County. The forum will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the Ticket Room at Los Angeles Union Station. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe, and Art Leahy, Metro's CEO, are expected to address the forum attendees.")
Lexology
Mapping The Subtle Science Of Parking Demand
The Atlantic: Cities
The Next Mayor Of Los Angeles' To-Do List Drawn From A Sampling Of TPR Readers And Civic Leaders
Planning Report
NJ Transit, Looking Ahead, Starts Ticketing By Smartphones
New Jersey Newsroom
Nobody Walks In L.A.: The Rise Of Cars And The Monorails That Never Were ("How did Los Angeles become so automobile-centric? How did Angeleno culture evolve (or is it devolve?) to the point where not having a car is seen as such a strange thing?")
Smithsonian Paleofuture Blog
Obama To Nominate Anthony Foxx As Transportation Secretary
Reuters
Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Expected To Be Nominated For Cabinet
Los Angeles Times
Obama To Nominate Charlotte Mayor To Transportation Post
New York Times
Meet Your Next Transportation Secretary, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx
Slate
Opinion: Port Railyard Project Needs Better Protections (by Janice Hahn and Alan Lowenthal)
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Rising Star Anthony Foxx Gets Nod To Replace Ray LaHood
Politico
Southern California's Traffic Is Jammed By An Excess Of Freedom
Los Angeles Daily News
Subway Car Configurations: A Matter Of Taste?
Human Transit
TIGER's Love Affair With Freight -- And Bikes
StreetsBlog DC
Lessons Learned From The TIGER Discretionary Grant Program (32p. PDF)
Eno Center For Transportation
Transportation Construction Responsible For Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars In U.S. Economy, Report Says
AASHTO Journal
The 2012 U.S. Transportation Construction Industry Profile (99p. PDF)
Transportation Development Foundation / American Road & Transportation Builders Association
What If We Never Run Out Of Oil
The Atlantic
What Kind Of Transportation Secretary Will Anthony Foxx Be?
StreetsBlog DC
Why Los Angeles Could Become The Next Technology Epicenter ("Extend the Expo Line to Santa Monica, bridging the disparate tech communities around the county — such as Venice, Culver City, Hollywood and other areas — to ease collaboration and uniformity.")
The Next Web
Work On Full Buildout Of Cornfield Park Could Start In January
Curbed LA
Los Angeles State Historic Park To Close For A Year
Los Angeles Downtown News
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We invite you to visit Metro's The Source, your window to what's happening with agency news, funding and policy issues, and how to get the most out of transit and Los Angeles.
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
93% Of U.S. Transport Remains Reliant On Oil
Face The Facts USA
Antonio Villaraigosa And Chuck Reed: Fix The California Environmental Quality Act Now
Los Angeles Daily News
Assemblyman's Bill Would Open Carpool Lanes On 134, 210 Freeways To Single-Occupancy Drivers
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Bailey Streetscape Project
Los Angeles Wave
Bids To Build SF Central Subway Are $100 Million Over City's Estimates
KALW
Bigwigs, Locals City Council To Discuss Shuttering SaMo Airport
Curbed LA
Bike Sharing Programs Hit The Streets In Over 500 Cities Worldwide
Treehugger
Global Bike-Sharing Fleet Tops 500,000 Bicycles
Environment News Service
Biking Boom Prompts A Wave Of Non-Pedaling Adults To Sign Up For Lessons
Washington Post
Congress Indulges In Crazy Talk About De-Funding Transit And Taxing Bikes
StreetsBlog DC
Editorial: 405 Users Avoided Carmageddon, And This Is The Price We Pay?
Los Angeles Daily News
Federal Funding: Don't Read This, It's Too Depressing ("The Highway Trust Fund will go “broke” in early 2015.")
Transportation Issues Daily
How CicLAvia Engaged Angelenos In The Space And Place Of L.A.
KCET
LA City Councilman Wants Access For LAPD To Traffic Cameras Following Boston Marathon Bombings ("Councilman Mitchell Englander introduced a motion Wednesday, asking police and transportation officials to look into how compatible the current systems are and how they may be integrated.")
KPCC Southern California Public Radio
LA Designer Transforms Sequined Art Into Billboard Bling ("People who have visited SFO’s BART station or the Raleigh Convention Center are familiar with the “shimmer wall” art installation — a technique created by Ned Kahn that uses a huge grid of small, dangling squares of reflective metal to create a display that ripples with the gentlest breeze.")
Wired
LA Metro Board Ditches $3 Monthly Fee For Freeway Toll Lane Transponders
KPCC Southern California Public Radio
LA Metro Considers Leimert Park Train Station As Part Of Light Rail Project
KPCC Southern California Public Radio
LA Metro To Hold Industry Forum For Sepulveda Pass Corridor ("On May 1, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) will hold an industry forum to present initial concepts for several multimodal P3 projects that are being considered for the Sepulveda Pass Corridor in Los Angeles County. The forum will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the Ticket Room at Los Angeles Union Station. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe, and Art Leahy, Metro's CEO, are expected to address the forum attendees.")
Lexology
Mapping The Subtle Science Of Parking Demand
The Atlantic: Cities
The Next Mayor Of Los Angeles' To-Do List Drawn From A Sampling Of TPR Readers And Civic Leaders
Planning Report
NJ Transit, Looking Ahead, Starts Ticketing By Smartphones
New Jersey Newsroom
Nobody Walks In L.A.: The Rise Of Cars And The Monorails That Never Were ("How did Los Angeles become so automobile-centric? How did Angeleno culture evolve (or is it devolve?) to the point where not having a car is seen as such a strange thing?")
Smithsonian Paleofuture Blog
Obama To Nominate Anthony Foxx As Transportation Secretary
Reuters
Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Expected To Be Nominated For Cabinet
Los Angeles Times
Obama To Nominate Charlotte Mayor To Transportation Post
New York Times
Meet Your Next Transportation Secretary, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx
Slate
Opinion: Port Railyard Project Needs Better Protections (by Janice Hahn and Alan Lowenthal)
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Rising Star Anthony Foxx Gets Nod To Replace Ray LaHood
Politico
Southern California's Traffic Is Jammed By An Excess Of Freedom
Los Angeles Daily News
Subway Car Configurations: A Matter Of Taste?
Human Transit
TIGER's Love Affair With Freight -- And Bikes
StreetsBlog DC
Lessons Learned From The TIGER Discretionary Grant Program (32p. PDF)
Eno Center For Transportation
Transportation Construction Responsible For Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars In U.S. Economy, Report Says
AASHTO Journal
The 2012 U.S. Transportation Construction Industry Profile (99p. PDF)
Transportation Development Foundation / American Road & Transportation Builders Association
What If We Never Run Out Of Oil
The Atlantic
What Kind Of Transportation Secretary Will Anthony Foxx Be?
StreetsBlog DC
Why Los Angeles Could Become The Next Technology Epicenter ("Extend the Expo Line to Santa Monica, bridging the disparate tech communities around the county — such as Venice, Culver City, Hollywood and other areas — to ease collaboration and uniformity.")
The Next Web
Work On Full Buildout Of Cornfield Park Could Start In January
Curbed LA
Los Angeles State Historic Park To Close For A Year
Los Angeles Downtown News
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4/26/2013
HOV Lanes, 405 Widening, Perris Metrolink, Caltrans, Highway Trust Fund, Bike/Ped Lobby, State Gas Taxes & More
405 Freeway Widening Project Delayed By A Year, $75M Over Budget
Los Angeles Daily News
Airline Uncertainty Pushing Some To Amtrak
My Fox DC
Are Some Caltrans Employees Moonlighting On State Time?
CBS Los Angeles
BART Lays Out New Safety Initiatives For Customers And Passengers
San Francisco Examiner
Building A Bike And Pedestrian Lobby With Teeth ("A group of advocates for safer streets in New York is looking to put financial and electoral muscle behind their efforts, forming a political action committee called StreetsPAC. The group will ask candidates in the city’s upcoming municipal elections to answer questionnaires about issues such as pedestrian infrastructure and investigation of traffic crashes.")
The Atlantic: Cities
BYD To Build Electric Bus Assembly Plant ("The Shenzhen-based producer of electric vehicles will break ground on May 1 for an assembly plant in Lancaster, about 70 miles north of Los Angeles, to make electric buses for US and Latin American public-transportation markets.")
China Daily
Caltrans Workers Hit The Highways To Clean Up California
Caltrans News Release
Chicago Ready To Roll Out Bike-Sharing ("Hundreds of three-speed bikes painted "Chicago blue" will hit the streets in June when the city debuts a bicycle-sharing rental program that originally was set to launch last summer.")
Chicago Tribune
Driver Ticketed For Using iPhone's Map App Isn't Giving Up Yet (Driver who maintains that he was driving safely at the time, isn't taking 'convicted' for an answer. Urged on by supporters, he has filed another appeal)
Los Angeles Times
"Etsy"-Type Flea Market, Food Fest To Begin In Historic Core This Summer
Blog Downtown
Federal Road Fund Could Go Broke By 2015
Stateline
Statement For The Record: Status Of The Highway Trust Fund (6p. PDF)
U.S. House Of Representatives Budget Committee
The Future Of Driving ("But smarter driving will lead to more driving, because smarter driving reduces the cost per mile of vehicle usage. The end result of additional driving could be more traffic and more aggregate fuel consumption.")
New York Times
Ho Chi Minh City Scrambling To Put Transit In Place Before People Start Buying Cars ("Once people get into a car, it's hard to get them out.")
The Atlantic: Cities
Easy Riders (A case for bringing subways To Vietnam)
New York Times
How Gross Is The Air Of The NYC Subway, Really?
The Atlantic: Cities
How TIGER Transformed Transportation Planning -- And Lived To Tell About It
StreetsBlog DC
Just How Screwed Is The Highway Trust Fund?
Governing
Los Angeles Retains Notorious Rankings For Worst Smog, Traffic
Reuters
Metro Board Approves Toll Lane Project
Santa Clarita Valley Signal
Metro Drops Monthly Toll Lane Transponder Fee On 110 And 10
Curbed LA
A Monthly Toll Road Fee Exits Early
Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles County Supervisor, Third District
Passenger Rail An Economic Driver
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Perris: County Officials To Counter Environmental Group's Judgment Proposal
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Perris Valley Line: Deadline Set To Address Environmental Issues (Metrolink)
Riverside Press Enterprise
Pondering A Mileage Tax And A Reduced Federal Role In Transportation
Land Line
Road Work To Cause More Traffic Delays In Seal Beach
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Running Of The Bull: Cable Cars Are Trundling Money Away From The Transit You Actually Use ("Maintaining cable cars for city tourists while struggling to provide core transit service is a bit like polishing the heirloom china for the guests while sending the kids to school with no shoes.")
SF Weekly
Smart Displays Beam City Information Directly To Your Phone ("Need to know when the next bus is coming? At a Connecthings-enabled bus stop, just wave your phone and the information is already there." Are the digital displays at bus and train stops already out of date?)
Fast Company Exist
State Motor Fuel Taxes 2013 (4p. PDF)
American Petroleum Institute
State Of The Air 2013 (179p. PDF : "Los Angeles remained the city with the worst ozone pollution problem, but reported its fewest unhealthy ozone days since the State of the Air reports began. Los Angeles has one-third fewer days of unhealthy air than in the first report.")
American Lung Association
Report Card: California (County by county)
Report Card: Los Angeles County
Toll Lane Transponder Fee Suspended For L.A. County Residents ("For the next six months, residents will not be charged a $3 monthly maintenance fee for transponders used on the 110 and 10 freeways' toll lanes.")
Los Angeles Times
Torrance Historic Bridge Revamp Costs Balloon Due To Structural Cracks
Daily Breeze
Underground Cellphone Service Expands, But Some Call For Quiet
New York Times
U.S. Traffic Congestion Again On The Rise After 2-Year Slump, New Report Says
The Trucker
Using Census Data For Transportation Applications (130p. PDF : conference proceedings)
Transportation Research Board
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We invite you to visit Metro's The Source, your window to what's happening with agency news, funding and policy issues, and how to get the most out of transit and Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Daily News
Airline Uncertainty Pushing Some To Amtrak
My Fox DC
Are Some Caltrans Employees Moonlighting On State Time?
CBS Los Angeles
BART Lays Out New Safety Initiatives For Customers And Passengers
San Francisco Examiner
Building A Bike And Pedestrian Lobby With Teeth ("A group of advocates for safer streets in New York is looking to put financial and electoral muscle behind their efforts, forming a political action committee called StreetsPAC. The group will ask candidates in the city’s upcoming municipal elections to answer questionnaires about issues such as pedestrian infrastructure and investigation of traffic crashes.")
The Atlantic: Cities
BYD To Build Electric Bus Assembly Plant ("The Shenzhen-based producer of electric vehicles will break ground on May 1 for an assembly plant in Lancaster, about 70 miles north of Los Angeles, to make electric buses for US and Latin American public-transportation markets.")
China Daily
Caltrans Workers Hit The Highways To Clean Up California
Caltrans News Release
Chicago Ready To Roll Out Bike-Sharing ("Hundreds of three-speed bikes painted "Chicago blue" will hit the streets in June when the city debuts a bicycle-sharing rental program that originally was set to launch last summer.")
Chicago Tribune
Driver Ticketed For Using iPhone's Map App Isn't Giving Up Yet (Driver who maintains that he was driving safely at the time, isn't taking 'convicted' for an answer. Urged on by supporters, he has filed another appeal)
Los Angeles Times
"Etsy"-Type Flea Market, Food Fest To Begin In Historic Core This Summer
Blog Downtown
Federal Road Fund Could Go Broke By 2015
Stateline
Statement For The Record: Status Of The Highway Trust Fund (6p. PDF)
U.S. House Of Representatives Budget Committee
The Future Of Driving ("But smarter driving will lead to more driving, because smarter driving reduces the cost per mile of vehicle usage. The end result of additional driving could be more traffic and more aggregate fuel consumption.")
New York Times
Ho Chi Minh City Scrambling To Put Transit In Place Before People Start Buying Cars ("Once people get into a car, it's hard to get them out.")
The Atlantic: Cities
Easy Riders (A case for bringing subways To Vietnam)
New York Times
How Gross Is The Air Of The NYC Subway, Really?
The Atlantic: Cities
How TIGER Transformed Transportation Planning -- And Lived To Tell About It
StreetsBlog DC
Just How Screwed Is The Highway Trust Fund?
Governing
Los Angeles Retains Notorious Rankings For Worst Smog, Traffic
Reuters
Metro Board Approves Toll Lane Project
Santa Clarita Valley Signal
Metro Drops Monthly Toll Lane Transponder Fee On 110 And 10
Curbed LA
A Monthly Toll Road Fee Exits Early
Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles County Supervisor, Third District
Passenger Rail An Economic Driver
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Perris: County Officials To Counter Environmental Group's Judgment Proposal
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Perris Valley Line: Deadline Set To Address Environmental Issues (Metrolink)
Riverside Press Enterprise
Pondering A Mileage Tax And A Reduced Federal Role In Transportation
Land Line
Road Work To Cause More Traffic Delays In Seal Beach
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Running Of The Bull: Cable Cars Are Trundling Money Away From The Transit You Actually Use ("Maintaining cable cars for city tourists while struggling to provide core transit service is a bit like polishing the heirloom china for the guests while sending the kids to school with no shoes.")
SF Weekly
Smart Displays Beam City Information Directly To Your Phone ("Need to know when the next bus is coming? At a Connecthings-enabled bus stop, just wave your phone and the information is already there." Are the digital displays at bus and train stops already out of date?)
Fast Company Exist
State Motor Fuel Taxes 2013 (4p. PDF)
American Petroleum Institute
State Of The Air 2013 (179p. PDF : "Los Angeles remained the city with the worst ozone pollution problem, but reported its fewest unhealthy ozone days since the State of the Air reports began. Los Angeles has one-third fewer days of unhealthy air than in the first report.")
American Lung Association
Report Card: California (County by county)
Report Card: Los Angeles County
Toll Lane Transponder Fee Suspended For L.A. County Residents ("For the next six months, residents will not be charged a $3 monthly maintenance fee for transponders used on the 110 and 10 freeways' toll lanes.")
Los Angeles Times
Torrance Historic Bridge Revamp Costs Balloon Due To Structural Cracks
Daily Breeze
Underground Cellphone Service Expands, But Some Call For Quiet
New York Times
U.S. Traffic Congestion Again On The Rise After 2-Year Slump, New Report Says
The Trucker
Using Census Data For Transportation Applications (130p. PDF : conference proceedings)
Transportation Research Board
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4/25/2013
Leimart Park Stop, 405 Project Delays, Pico/405 Project, CAHSR, CicLAvia, Bike Share, Broken Meters & More
April 25: This Date In Los Angeles Transportation History (SCRTD opens the Central Maintenance Facility, supporting 13 operating divisions for equipment and maintenance)
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
405 Project Stuck In The Slow Lane ("Plagued by cost overruns and delays, the widening will take at least a year longer than first anticipated. Pencil in June 2014, when officials aim to complete the bulk of the construction.")
Los Angeles Times
California High-Speed Rail Estimates "Astounding"
Washington Examiner
Decision On Crenshaw Line's Leimert Park Stop Arriving Soon
Curbed LA
Elon Musk Hates 405 Freeway Traffic, Offers Money To Speed Widening
Los Angeles Times
For The MTA, The Buck Stops At Leimert Park (by Mark Ridley-Thomas)
LA Observed
How Did Richie Trimble Get His CicLAvia Bike Into Media Stories In Mexico, Greece and Croatia? By Riding One That Is "StoopidTall" (over 14 feet off the ground)
Yahoo News
Video of "StoopidTall" at CicLAvia 2013 via YouTube
Mapping The Screens At 7th Street / Metro Center ("Many of these screens have been added in less-than-useful places or show less-than-useful information.")
Steven White: The Accidental Urbanist
Mayor Villaraigosa Mandates MTA Hold Contractors Accountable For Lack Of Blacks Hired On Phase I Of Crenshaw Rail Project
Los Angeles Sentinel
New Low For L.A.: Ticketing Cars At Broken Parking Meters
Los Angeles Times
San Bernardino To Celebrate Historic Train Culture At Railroad Days
San Bernardino Sun
Spring Street Bike Lane Poised For A Paint Job Despite Film Industry Concerns
Blog Downtown
State Senate Approves Caltrans Chief Despite Concerns
Silicon Valley Mercury News
Tunneling Machine For Central Subway Arrives In SF ("They're called an 'earth pressure balance machine' and they have a rotating cutter head for soft ground, and we're anticipating drilling into soft ground.")
KGO San Francisco
Villaraigosa Announces Bike Share Program For Los Angeles
Latinos Post
What's A Bike Good For? Churning Ice Cream, Apparently ("The Peddler’s Creamery grand opening took place during L.A.'s recent CicLAvia, a daylong event that opens city streets to bikes and pedestrians.")
The Atlantic: Cities
Whittier OKs Purchase For Greenway Trail Extension
Whittier Daily News
Will The Casden Development Be L.A.'s Bermuda Triangle Of Traffic? ("Billionaire Alan Casden plans "transit concierge" for his project at 405 and Pico.")
LA Weekly
What are transportation community leaders around the nation tweeting about today? Check out the Metro Library Twitter Daily, our online digest in newspaper format updated every day.
We invite you to visit Metro's The Source, your window to what's happening with agency news, funding and policy issues, and how to get the most out of transit and Los Angeles.
Metro Transportation Library Primary Resources Blog
405 Project Stuck In The Slow Lane ("Plagued by cost overruns and delays, the widening will take at least a year longer than first anticipated. Pencil in June 2014, when officials aim to complete the bulk of the construction.")
Los Angeles Times
California High-Speed Rail Estimates "Astounding"
Washington Examiner
Decision On Crenshaw Line's Leimert Park Stop Arriving Soon
Curbed LA
Elon Musk Hates 405 Freeway Traffic, Offers Money To Speed Widening
Los Angeles Times
For The MTA, The Buck Stops At Leimert Park (by Mark Ridley-Thomas)
LA Observed
How Did Richie Trimble Get His CicLAvia Bike Into Media Stories In Mexico, Greece and Croatia? By Riding One That Is "StoopidTall" (over 14 feet off the ground)
Yahoo News
Video of "StoopidTall" at CicLAvia 2013 via YouTube
Mapping The Screens At 7th Street / Metro Center ("Many of these screens have been added in less-than-useful places or show less-than-useful information.")
Steven White: The Accidental Urbanist
Mayor Villaraigosa Mandates MTA Hold Contractors Accountable For Lack Of Blacks Hired On Phase I Of Crenshaw Rail Project
Los Angeles Sentinel
New Low For L.A.: Ticketing Cars At Broken Parking Meters
Los Angeles Times
San Bernardino To Celebrate Historic Train Culture At Railroad Days
San Bernardino Sun
Spring Street Bike Lane Poised For A Paint Job Despite Film Industry Concerns
Blog Downtown
State Senate Approves Caltrans Chief Despite Concerns
Silicon Valley Mercury News
Tunneling Machine For Central Subway Arrives In SF ("They're called an 'earth pressure balance machine' and they have a rotating cutter head for soft ground, and we're anticipating drilling into soft ground.")
KGO San Francisco
Villaraigosa Announces Bike Share Program For Los Angeles
Latinos Post
What's A Bike Good For? Churning Ice Cream, Apparently ("The Peddler’s Creamery grand opening took place during L.A.'s recent CicLAvia, a daylong event that opens city streets to bikes and pedestrians.")
The Atlantic: Cities
Whittier OKs Purchase For Greenway Trail Extension
Whittier Daily News
Will The Casden Development Be L.A.'s Bermuda Triangle Of Traffic? ("Billionaire Alan Casden plans "transit concierge" for his project at 405 and Pico.")
LA Weekly
What are transportation community leaders around the nation tweeting about today? Check out the Metro Library Twitter Daily, our online digest in newspaper format updated every day.
We invite you to visit Metro's The Source, your window to what's happening with agency news, funding and policy issues, and how to get the most out of transit and Los Angeles.
4/24/2013
Gold Line Eastside Extension, Metrolink To FlyAway, Coldwater Canyon, CAHSR, CicLAvia's Colombian Roots, Bike Commuting, LA River Bike Path, Gas Tax & More
BART.gov Launches New Estimated Train Crowding Feature ("Visitors to the BART website and mobile site can now get a snapshot of estimated crowding levels on trains when they plan a trip.")
BART News Release
Chatter Grows About Foxx And DOT ("Sources, including a transportation industry lobbyist, say they’ve heard increasing speculation that Charlotte’s mayor is about to be nominated as U.S. transportation secretary, possibly this week.")
Charlotte Observer
Coldwater Canyon Opens Early To Traffic After Monthlong Closure
Los Angeles Times
Commuting By Bike In L.A. Can Be Harder Than It Seems
Triple Pundit
Editorial: Bullet Train -- The Insanity Escalates
San Diego Union-Tribune
Effectiveness Of Different Approaches To Disseminating Traveler Information On Travel Time Reliability (409p. PDF)
Strategic Highway Research Program
A Lexicon For Conveying Travel Time Reliability Information (66p. PDF)
Strategic Highway Research Program
The Faulty Logic Behind Pro-Car Populism
StreetsBlog Network
Imagine Hopping On BART To Get To Marin County (A look at original plans for Bay Area Rapid Transit system to reach Sonoma, Napa and Santa Rosa via rail on the lower deck of the Golden Gate Bridge)
Curbed SF
L.A. CicLAvia Began In Bogota
ABC News
LA Investors Predict Development Boom In Places Where Development Is Booming ("54% see a bright future for the transportation sector. Which, with the Expo Line Phase II, Purple Line, Crenshaw Line, Downtown Streetcar, Gold Line Extension (and 36 more) planned or in the works, is probably a safe bet.")
Curbed LA
Los Angeles To End Use Of Coal By 2025
Los Angeles Daily News
Metrolink Offers LAX Tickets ("Getting to Los Angeles International Airport from Chatsworth and Northridge via public transportation recently got a little easier. Starting Monday, Metrolink added an option to purchase tickets for the LAX FlyAway bus directly from its vending machines.")
Northridge-Chatsworth Patch
New Pollution Study Ranks Los Angeles Areas In Top 10 Worst In State
Los Angeles Daily News
Mariachi Plaza Extension To Make Ped-Friendlier Gold Line Stop
Curbed LA
More Than 35% Of U.S. Public Transit Buses Use Alternative Fuels Or Hybrid Technology ("LA Metro operates the largest CNG fleet in the U.S. with 2,200 CNG vehicles. LA Metro also buys 15% of all transit buses in the United States...MetroLink is taking action to further reduce emissions by becoming the first commuter rail provider in the nation to buy Tier 4 locomotives, the cleanest-burning diesel engines on the market.")
APTA Press Release
Study: Yes, L.A. Has The Worst Traffic In The Country -- Again ("The average Los Angeles driver spent 59 hours sitting in traffic in 2012, or about two and a half days, the data showed...And four freeways are in the country's 10 most congested.")
Los Angeles Times
Universal Expansion, LA River Bike Path Extension Almost A Go
Curbed LA
Vehicle-Miles Tax On Rural Drivers: Everything You Believe May Be Wrong
Transportation Issues Daily
Where Is The Bottom? Americans Continue To Drive Less And Less
StreetsBlog DC
Traffic Volume Trends (links to data going back to 1970)
Federal Highway Administration Office Of Highway Policy Information Travel Monitoring
What are transportation community leaders around the nation tweeting about today? Check out the Metro Library Twitter Daily, our online digest in newspaper format updated every day.
We invite you to visit Metro's The Source, your window to what's happening with agency news, funding and policy issues, and how to get the most out of transit and Los Angeles.
BART News Release
Chatter Grows About Foxx And DOT ("Sources, including a transportation industry lobbyist, say they’ve heard increasing speculation that Charlotte’s mayor is about to be nominated as U.S. transportation secretary, possibly this week.")
Charlotte Observer
Coldwater Canyon Opens Early To Traffic After Monthlong Closure
Los Angeles Times
Commuting By Bike In L.A. Can Be Harder Than It Seems
Triple Pundit
Editorial: Bullet Train -- The Insanity Escalates
San Diego Union-Tribune
Effectiveness Of Different Approaches To Disseminating Traveler Information On Travel Time Reliability (409p. PDF)
Strategic Highway Research Program
A Lexicon For Conveying Travel Time Reliability Information (66p. PDF)
Strategic Highway Research Program
The Faulty Logic Behind Pro-Car Populism
StreetsBlog Network
Imagine Hopping On BART To Get To Marin County (A look at original plans for Bay Area Rapid Transit system to reach Sonoma, Napa and Santa Rosa via rail on the lower deck of the Golden Gate Bridge)
Curbed SF
L.A. CicLAvia Began In Bogota
ABC News
LA Investors Predict Development Boom In Places Where Development Is Booming ("54% see a bright future for the transportation sector. Which, with the Expo Line Phase II, Purple Line, Crenshaw Line, Downtown Streetcar, Gold Line Extension (and 36 more) planned or in the works, is probably a safe bet.")
Curbed LA
Los Angeles To End Use Of Coal By 2025
Los Angeles Daily News
Metrolink Offers LAX Tickets ("Getting to Los Angeles International Airport from Chatsworth and Northridge via public transportation recently got a little easier. Starting Monday, Metrolink added an option to purchase tickets for the LAX FlyAway bus directly from its vending machines.")
Northridge-Chatsworth Patch
New Pollution Study Ranks Los Angeles Areas In Top 10 Worst In State
Los Angeles Daily News
Mariachi Plaza Extension To Make Ped-Friendlier Gold Line Stop
Curbed LA
More Than 35% Of U.S. Public Transit Buses Use Alternative Fuels Or Hybrid Technology ("LA Metro operates the largest CNG fleet in the U.S. with 2,200 CNG vehicles. LA Metro also buys 15% of all transit buses in the United States...MetroLink is taking action to further reduce emissions by becoming the first commuter rail provider in the nation to buy Tier 4 locomotives, the cleanest-burning diesel engines on the market.")
APTA Press Release
Study: Yes, L.A. Has The Worst Traffic In The Country -- Again ("The average Los Angeles driver spent 59 hours sitting in traffic in 2012, or about two and a half days, the data showed...And four freeways are in the country's 10 most congested.")
Los Angeles Times
Universal Expansion, LA River Bike Path Extension Almost A Go
Curbed LA
Vehicle-Miles Tax On Rural Drivers: Everything You Believe May Be Wrong
Transportation Issues Daily
Where Is The Bottom? Americans Continue To Drive Less And Less
StreetsBlog DC
Traffic Volume Trends (links to data going back to 1970)
Federal Highway Administration Office Of Highway Policy Information Travel Monitoring
What are transportation community leaders around the nation tweeting about today? Check out the Metro Library Twitter Daily, our online digest in newspaper format updated every day.
We invite you to visit Metro's The Source, your window to what's happening with agency news, funding and policy issues, and how to get the most out of transit and Los Angeles.
4/23/2013
Transit Security, SF Central Subway Tunneling, CicLAvia, Bike Lanes, Gas Tax, TIGER 2013 & More
5 Sustainable Infrastructure Projects Other Cities Might Want To Copy
The Atlantic: Cities
2013 Is A Boom Year For Bike Share, Here's Which Cities Will Launch Next (map and article)
Transportation Nation
APTA's Melaniphy Calls For More Federal Investment In Transit Security
Progressive Railroading
Bike Share Program To Roll In Downtown
Los Angeles Downtown News
Bikes Out-Sell Cars In Europe Nearly Two-To-One
ePedaler
Central Subway Workers Prepare For Boring Machine
San Francisco Chronicle
Central Subway Tunnel Machines Arrive This Week
San Francisco Bay
Central Subway Tunneling Machines Set To Arrive In San Francisco; Digging Expected To Start In June
San Francisco Examiner
CicLAvia's Bicycle Traffic Jams Are The Price Of Success?
LA Weekly
CicLAvia To The Sea A "Huge Success," Planning Underway For April, 2014 ("Organizers say they want to use the same route, and next time they want to close both sides of Venice Blvd. for bikes, as opposed to only one side (westbound) that Angelenos experienced this year.")
Bill Rosendahl, Los Angeles City Council, 11th District
Come And Get It: LaHood Announces Fifth Round Of TIGER Grants
StreetsBlog DC
DOT, Transportation Community Happy To See Long-Awaited Return Of A TIGER
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Comprehensive Highway Corridor Planning With Sustainability Indicators (104p. PDF : "Phase Two of the project focused on extending this quantitative evaluation of sustainability indicators to additional multimodal corridor improvement options, including high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane, high occupancy toll (HOT) lane, bus rapid transit/bus-only lane, light rail transit, truck-only lane, express toll lane, and road diet (i.e. lane removal).")
Maryland State Highway Administration
DTLA's Spring Street Park Now Has Cement And Some Trees
Curbed LA
Earmark Woes Resurface ("Did transportation get unfairly shafted in the rush to ban earmarks, which were really intended to combat questionable appropriations practices? Is the WRDA bill worse, in terms of looking like a pile of earmarks, than a surface transportation bill? Are there lessons from last year's highway and transit bill negotiations that can help lawmakers drafting a water resources bill? What other issues that could cause problems in that process?")
National Journal Transportation Experts Blog
Fearing Parking Loss, Downtown Business Group Stops "Street Seats" Program (parklets)
Bike Portland
For Some Riding In CicLAvia, It Is About More Than Just Having Fun (Although Fun Is Allowed)
StreetsBlog LA
Hiking In The Wonderful Mountains Of Southern California In 1918 ("While the Pacific Electric Railway might be known for linking urban areas, it also connected the people of Los Angeles with the delights of the wilderness above the city.")
Los Angeles Magazine
Huizar: It's Time To Paint The Spring Street Green Bike Lane
StreetsBlog LA
In Praise Of The Stockholm Subway's Breathtaking Art
The Atlantic: Cities
In U.S., Most Oppose State Gas Tax Hike To Fund Repairs (national poll)
Gallup Politics
Poll: Americans Not Revved Up Over Increased Gas Taxes
CNN
Poll: Put Brakes On Gas Tax
Politico
Is Increasing The Gas Tax Truly Politically Unpalatable?
Governing
Los Angeles Regional Earthquake Warning System Gets $5 Million Federal Grant
Los Angeles Daily News
The Opportunity Costs Of Highway Expansion
StreetsBlog Network
Prototype Development Of The Open Mode Integrated Transportation System (OMITS): Final Report (19p. PDF)
City College Of New York University Transportation Research Center
Remaking Sodo: Hansen, Teams, City Look At L.A. Live ("Investor Chris Hansen would like to create a Seattle version of L.A. Live, a thriving entertainment district by Staples Center. The Mariners and Seahawks also want to enliven the stadium area. But Port and maritime workers worry about freight mobility, congestion and loss of industrial lands.")
Seattle Times
Roads Are A Money Losing Proposition (video)
StreetFilms
Seaside Scenes From CicLAvia's Packed First Route To The Sea
Curbed LA
What Are The Three Key Changes In TIGER 2013?
Transportation Issues Daily
Why Aren't Younger Americans Driving Anymore? (Presents "five big hypotheses")
Washington Post
Transportation And The New Generation: Why Young People Are Driving Less And What It Means For Transportation Policy (41p. PDF : Report from April, 2012)
Frontier Group / U.S. PIRG
What are transportation community leaders around the nation tweeting about today? Check out the Metro Library Twitter Daily, our online digest in newspaper format updated every day.
We invite you to visit Metro's The Source, your window to what's happening with agency news, funding and policy issues, and how to get the most out of transit and Los Angeles.
The Atlantic: Cities
2013 Is A Boom Year For Bike Share, Here's Which Cities Will Launch Next (map and article)
Transportation Nation
APTA's Melaniphy Calls For More Federal Investment In Transit Security
Progressive Railroading
Bike Share Program To Roll In Downtown
Los Angeles Downtown News
Bikes Out-Sell Cars In Europe Nearly Two-To-One
ePedaler
Central Subway Workers Prepare For Boring Machine
San Francisco Chronicle
Central Subway Tunnel Machines Arrive This Week
San Francisco Bay
Central Subway Tunneling Machines Set To Arrive In San Francisco; Digging Expected To Start In June
San Francisco Examiner
CicLAvia's Bicycle Traffic Jams Are The Price Of Success?
LA Weekly
CicLAvia To The Sea A "Huge Success," Planning Underway For April, 2014 ("Organizers say they want to use the same route, and next time they want to close both sides of Venice Blvd. for bikes, as opposed to only one side (westbound) that Angelenos experienced this year.")
Bill Rosendahl, Los Angeles City Council, 11th District
Come And Get It: LaHood Announces Fifth Round Of TIGER Grants
StreetsBlog DC
DOT, Transportation Community Happy To See Long-Awaited Return Of A TIGER
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Comprehensive Highway Corridor Planning With Sustainability Indicators (104p. PDF : "Phase Two of the project focused on extending this quantitative evaluation of sustainability indicators to additional multimodal corridor improvement options, including high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane, high occupancy toll (HOT) lane, bus rapid transit/bus-only lane, light rail transit, truck-only lane, express toll lane, and road diet (i.e. lane removal).")
Maryland State Highway Administration
DTLA's Spring Street Park Now Has Cement And Some Trees
Curbed LA
Earmark Woes Resurface ("Did transportation get unfairly shafted in the rush to ban earmarks, which were really intended to combat questionable appropriations practices? Is the WRDA bill worse, in terms of looking like a pile of earmarks, than a surface transportation bill? Are there lessons from last year's highway and transit bill negotiations that can help lawmakers drafting a water resources bill? What other issues that could cause problems in that process?")
National Journal Transportation Experts Blog
Fearing Parking Loss, Downtown Business Group Stops "Street Seats" Program (parklets)
Bike Portland
For Some Riding In CicLAvia, It Is About More Than Just Having Fun (Although Fun Is Allowed)
StreetsBlog LA
Hiking In The Wonderful Mountains Of Southern California In 1918 ("While the Pacific Electric Railway might be known for linking urban areas, it also connected the people of Los Angeles with the delights of the wilderness above the city.")
Los Angeles Magazine
Huizar: It's Time To Paint The Spring Street Green Bike Lane
StreetsBlog LA
In Praise Of The Stockholm Subway's Breathtaking Art
The Atlantic: Cities
In U.S., Most Oppose State Gas Tax Hike To Fund Repairs (national poll)
Gallup Politics
Poll: Americans Not Revved Up Over Increased Gas Taxes
CNN
Poll: Put Brakes On Gas Tax
Politico
Is Increasing The Gas Tax Truly Politically Unpalatable?
Governing
Los Angeles Regional Earthquake Warning System Gets $5 Million Federal Grant
Los Angeles Daily News
The Opportunity Costs Of Highway Expansion
StreetsBlog Network
Prototype Development Of The Open Mode Integrated Transportation System (OMITS): Final Report (19p. PDF)
City College Of New York University Transportation Research Center
Remaking Sodo: Hansen, Teams, City Look At L.A. Live ("Investor Chris Hansen would like to create a Seattle version of L.A. Live, a thriving entertainment district by Staples Center. The Mariners and Seahawks also want to enliven the stadium area. But Port and maritime workers worry about freight mobility, congestion and loss of industrial lands.")
Seattle Times
Roads Are A Money Losing Proposition (video)
StreetFilms
Seaside Scenes From CicLAvia's Packed First Route To The Sea
Curbed LA
What Are The Three Key Changes In TIGER 2013?
Transportation Issues Daily
Why Aren't Younger Americans Driving Anymore? (Presents "five big hypotheses")
Washington Post
Transportation And The New Generation: Why Young People Are Driving Less And What It Means For Transportation Policy (41p. PDF : Report from April, 2012)
Frontier Group / U.S. PIRG
What are transportation community leaders around the nation tweeting about today? Check out the Metro Library Twitter Daily, our online digest in newspaper format updated every day.
We invite you to visit Metro's The Source, your window to what's happening with agency news, funding and policy issues, and how to get the most out of transit and Los Angeles.
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