Durham-Orange Light Rail Survives GOP Assassination Attempt in State Budget
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Advocates mobilized quickly to strip a rider that would have killed the project out of the state budget.
The Engineering Manual Everyone but You Seems to Have
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It took only one tweet, and the Manual on Uniform Traffic Engineering Excuses practically wrote itself.
Today’s Headlines
|- The Militant Angeleno‘s Guide To Valley CicLAvia This Sunday
- A Driver’s Guide To Not Being A Jerk To Bicyclists (L.A. Magazine)
- Metro To Accept L.A. Funding To Study Arts District Station (The Source)
- All-Door Boarding Starts Sunday On Vermont Avenue Rapid Bus (Eastsider)
- Metro Warner Center Shuttle Debuts (Daily News)
- Metrolink San Bernardino Line Cuts Fares (The Source)
- Carnage: Car-Truck 14 Freeway Crash Kills One In Santa Clarita (Daily News)
- What It Would Take To House Every So Cal Homeless Person (LAist)
- Tempe Uber Driver In Deadly AV Crash Was Streaming The Voice (Gizmodo, LAT)
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Surprise Attack on Phoenix Light Rail Expansion Reeks of Koch Brother Interference
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The 11th-hour opposition campaign seeks to stop a project supported by 75 percent of neighborhood residents just three years ago.
Talking Headways Podcast: Value Capture and Transit-Oriented Development
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This week we talk with Stan Wall of HR&A Advisors. Stan tells us about his earlier work as director of real estate and station planning for WMATA in Washington DC, including an interesting case study -- the redevelopment at the NoMa transit station -- his favorite projects, and what "value capture" actually means.
Why Affordable Housing Is So Important for Development Near Transit
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What happens when you build housing around transit, but it's not affordable to the people who ride transit the most?
Today’s Headlines
|- CicLAvia Comes To the Valley This Sunday (Daily News)
- Graphic Of Density In Eight L.A. Single-Family Neighborhoods (Reddit)
- Proposed 77-Story Hotel On Figueroa Could Be L.A.’s Tallest (Urbanize)
- Opinion: Downey Needs More Off-Street Parking (Downey Patriot)
- Carnage: Shadow Hills Crash Kills Two (Daily News, LAT)
- LAPD Adds 20 E-Bikes To Fleet (Daily News)
- Some History Of MyFigueroa Redevelopment
- Lyft Offering Free Rides To Cancer Patients (KTLA)
- The Unintended Consequences Of Rent Control (KPCC)
- Study: Widening Roads Is Not Good For Economy (SB Denver)
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Global Business Press Impresario Keith Crain Pens Epic Anti-Bike Screed
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Keith Crain, chief executive of Crain Communications, saw some bike lanes and wants you to know that he's very mad.
Today’s Headlines
|- CiclaValley Previews Sunday’s CicLAvia – Part 1, Part 2
- Metro Switching To Plastic Bus Seats (The Source)
- City Council To Vote Friday On Skid Row Bike Lanes (Curbed)
- Inglewood Residents Sue For Housing Instead Of New Clippers Arena (Curbed)
- Exide Clean Up Is Far From Over (KPCC)
- New Renderings For Santa Monica Airport Park Expansion (Urbanize)
- Metro To Host Safety Telephone Town Hall Tonight (Downtown News)
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Eyes on the Street: MyFigueroa Goes Green, Looks Nearly Ready
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With new green paint in the new protected bike lanes, construction on MyFigueroa appears to be nearing completion.
Making Traffic Signals Fair for Pedestrians
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Traffic engineering conventions deprive people on foot of sufficient time to cross the street. We should change that.