Month: March 2010

This is what independence really looks like. (Photo: kamshots via Flickr) Probably all of us have watched as an aging relative fights to keep on driving despite deteriorating vision or other impairments. I know of one case in which a woman essentially stole her mother’s car so that the older lady, who suffered from dementia, … Continued

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"Metro Board unanimously approves funding and master cooperative agreement. Gold Line Foothill Extension set to break ground in June!!" may be the tweet heard round the San Gabriel Valley, as Albert Ho of I Will Ride announced that the Metro Board of Directors approved the construction plan for the Foothill Extension.  The first shovel will go in the ground in June; meaning the Foothill Extension, not Expo Phase II, the Subway to the Sea nor the Regional Connector, will be the first Measure R rail project to begin construction.  Thanks to commenter Dennis Hindman for reminding me that the Orange Line extension already broke ground.

I've railed on General Motors and Segway in the past for the myriad impracticalities of their tandem Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility (P.U.M.A.) prototype. Now they're at it again, making headlines today by unveiling the first three models in their new Electric Networked Vehicle (EN-V, pronounced "envy") line, including the Jiao, which is Chinese for "Pride."

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If you're a regular Streetsblog reader who's been looking for a career in fighting for transportation reform, have I got news for you.  Transportation For America, the organization that's looking out for us in the nation's capital, is looking to hire a field organizer for Southern California.  The requirements?  Knowledge of Southern California's communities, a passion for advocacy, two years of experience as a political organizer and an ability to work with, manage and grow a diverse coalition.

The Senate environment panel today was forced to prematurely shutter its latest hearing on the next long-term federal transportation bill after Republicans invoked a rarely-used right to close down committee work as part of their broader protest against the majority party's health care legislation.

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