Today’s Headlines

Tuesday, May 8, 2012 1 Comment

Mocking the Beverly Hills PTA Video Goes Mainstream (CBS2, LAT, City Watch)
Cue the Panic. Mayor Wants to Increase Parking Ticket Costs (LAT, LAT)
Pasadena Weekly Pulls No Punches, Parrots BRU Line on Transit Racism
Little Movement on 30/10 (Neon Tommy)
Unsafe Expo/Grammercy Bike Crossing Gets a Little Better (LADOT Bike Blog)
Centinella/Pico Getting New Expo Adjacent Apartments (Curbed)
Metro Still Taking Heat for Rail Car Contract with Cars Built in Japan (Intersections South L.A.)
Do “Three Foot Passing Laws” Actually Work? (Atlantic Cities)
Metrolink CEO John Fenton Leaves for Job in Florida (LAT)
Homeless Advocates Fight City Hall Attempt to Ban Tents in Parks (Daily News)
Long Beach Proposes Bike Safety School for Cycling Scofflaws Instead of Tix (Facebook)
Scenes From SF’s “Sunday Streets” in the Mission (Mission Local)
Mitt: I Fixed the Auto Industry (Yahoo)

Monday, May 7, 2012 3 Comments

L.A. Says We’re Over 200 Miles in Bike Lanes (LADOT Bike Blog)
Everyone Is Getting a Laugh at the BHPTA “Doomsday” Video (LAT)
The 710 Big-Dig. Bad for Public Health (Patch)
“Libertarians” at Reason Foundation Don’t Like the Expo Line
It’s a Little Early to Pass Verdicts Either Way (Curbed)
Road Traffic ‘Single Biggest Source of Fatality’ for Young People Worldwide (Atlantic Cities)
Bike Infrastructure Grows in Sacramento Area (SacBee)
E-Car Company Coming to Chatsworth (Daily News)
Really? De-Funding the Ethics Commission? (LAT)
Farmscape Corporation Announces Candidacy for Mayor (Daily News)

Friday, May 4, 2012 3 Comments

Dodgers Praised for Reducing Parking Rates to Below Market Rate (Daily News)
Everyone Is Confused By 710 Big Dig Outreach, But Know It’s a Dumb Project (Patch)
When Your TAP Card “Expires,” Prepare for Chicanery (Blogging L.A.)
Metro Schedules the Requested Public Hearing for Beverly Hills on Subway (The Source)
Officials Say Critics of High Speed Rail Using Bad Numbers (North County Times)
The Politics of Measure R+ in Sacramento (Land Line)
Box: Don’t Believe the Hype, LADOT Unchanged (City Watch)
Does York Road Bridge Need a Road Diet? (Flying Pigeon, Patch)
Transit Fare Honor Systems Only Cost-Effective in Some Cities (Atlantic Cities)

Thursday, May 3, 2012 No Comments

Architecture Critic Rips “Aggressively Banal” Expo Design. Ouch. (LAT)
Metrolink Proposes 5 to 9 Percent Fare Hike (The Source)
Most Speakers at Public Meeting Opposed to 710 Big Dig (Valley Sun)
Businesses Looking to Cash in on Expo (KPCC)
Long Beach Transit Grows, and Grows Intelligently (Metro Magazine)
Bad Sign. First Magic Act Reducing Parking Cost at Dodger Stadium (LAT, USA Today, Yahoo)
At Least Our Lousy Reporters Don’t Drive Around Trying to Cause Crashes (Streetsblog SF)
Imagine How Safe Our Streets Would Be if the Council Reacted This Way Every Time Cars Killed People (LAT)
Imagine How Different the Regional Connector Debate Would Have Been If Broad Owned the (LAT)

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 No Comments

Tuesday, May 1, 2012 1 Comment

LA Rail Car Contract Goes to Japanese Firm. Unions, Advocates Incensed (LAT, Daily News, Wave, The Source)
What Does Expo and Bruce Springsteen Have in Common (HuffPo)
Taking a Page from John Walsh, LA Weekly Slams Expo, Rail Program, Villaraigosa (LA Weekly)
Susanna Schick: DAMM RIGHT I WAS HIT BY A CAR (Blog Downtown)
Garcetti Leading Coalition to Bring Back Park Funding (LAT)
The Horror…the horror. LMU Might Start Charing Students for Parking (Argo)
Helmet Cam Catches Berkeley Hit and Run Drivers (SF Streetsblog)
It’s May Day. Play Nice (LA_Now)

Monday, April 30, 2012 No Comments

Regional Connector Heads to Court (Downtown News via Curbed)
Some of the Best of Expo Coverage (LAT, KPCC, Intersections, NBC4)
LA’s Lack of a TOD Plan for Expo Could Lead to Gentrification (LAT)
The Source’s In-Depth Expo Coverage (Art, Day 1, Zombies, MRT, Bikes, Giants)
Crenshaw Line on the Way! (L.A. Sentinel)
Bev. Hills Courier Celebrates Thursday’s Metro Board Meeting
Majority of Beverly Hills Patch Readers Want to Just Build the Subway
Bev. Hills Walking Group Pushing for Safer Streets (Patch)
Op/Ed: We Need Bike Freeways! (Pasadena Star-News)
Why the Streets of Copenhagen and Amsterdam Look So Different From Ours (Atlantic Cities)

Friday, April 27, 2012 2 Comments

Westside Subway! (LAT,, ABC 7, CBS 2, NBC 4, LAT Again)
Westside SUBWAY, WESTSIDE SUBWAY! (Curbed, KPCC, Patch, HuffPo)
WESTSIDESUBWAYWESTSIDESUBWAYWESTSIDESUBWAY!!!! (The Source, LAist)
Regional Connector (The Source, Curbed, Small Part of Other Article)
Someone Didn’t Get the Memo that Westside Subway is a Zillion Times More Important? (Daily News)
Expo! Expo! Expo! Expo! Expo! (LAT, LAT, ABC 7, City Maven)
Crenshaw? (Daily News)
BHUSD Trenching Study: No Active Fault in Path to Santa Monica Blvd. Station (Courier)
Beverly Hills Bike Route Program (Better Bike)
Riverside-Figueroa Bridge construction a hazard for pedestrians (L.A. Creek Freak)
Apparently Fare Gates Won’t Stop People from Dodging Fares (My Fox DC)
“Does your city have adequate bike paths? If not, consider bitching about it to your local government for the next 40 years.” (The Onion)

Thursday, April 26, 2012 No Comments

Six Visions for Union Station in 2050 (Daily News, The Source, Curbed)
LAPD Sticking to Its Guns, Claim Schick Fell Off Her Bike (Blog Downtown)
Ridley-Thomas Questions Timing of “Measure R+” Movement (LA_Now)
LA Still Number One for Highest Amounts of Ozone in Air (Daily News)
Thumbs Up for San Fran’s “Parking Protected Bike Lane” (SF Streetsblog)
Zev vs. BH Councilman Bruckner on Westside Subway (KPCC via The Source)
Authors of High Speed Rail Report Have Financial Stake in Stopping Fast Train (CAHSR Blog)
Bay Area Uses Strange Thing Called “Process” to Select Bike Share (SF Streetsblog)
More Reaction to My Interview with Damien Goodmon (Curbed)
Bill Setting Cyclist Cell Phone Fine Would Also Increase Fines for Drivers (SF Examiner)