Day: July 10, 2009
Streetsblog LA
Downtown Streetcar Project Opens Website, Seeks Feedback
Activist and blogger Eric Richardson, and indeed the whole Blogdowntown team so some extent, have been heavily involved in advocating for bringing streetcars back to Los Angeles on Broadway and beyond. Thus, it's little surprise that Richardson has the scoop on L.A. Streetcar Inc.'s new website designed to solicit feedback on potential routes for Los Angeles' streetcars of the 21st Century:
July 10, 2009
Republicans Deem Transpo Stimulus — 6% of Total Spending — a ‘Failure’
Republicans on the House transportation panel held a press
conference today to deem the economic stimulus law a failure, citing
low infrastructure spending in the nation's highest-unemployment states.
July 10, 2009
Taking GOP Graphics a Bit Too Seriously
Sen.
Kit Bond (R-MO), one of his chamber's leading opponents of action
against climate change, has swiped the hilariously complicated "chart"
that his House colleagues used last month in a futile attempt to portray emissions reductions as just too complex for the American people to stomach.
July 10, 2009
Introducing: The Greensters
Imagine trying to make a movie while leaving almost no carbon footprint...no batteries used in the lights, no cars or trucks used to haul equipment and public transit, walking and bicycling used to get the actors and crew to every location. That's the task created for themselves by Rebel Without a Car Productions, which include our good friends Stephen and Enci Box; and they need your help.
July 10, 2009
All Aboard the Great Streetcar Debate
Streetcars provoke strong emotions in transpo geeks. A recent post on Human Transit called "Streetcars: An Inconvenient Truth" precipitated a very informed and sometimes heated thread of discussion on the relative virtues of light rail vs. bus rapid transit (a mode that got its moment in the limelight just this morning).
July 10, 2009