Month: August 2012
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North East Trees / Tree Planting Event
North East Trees / Tree Planting Event
Saturday, August 11, 2012
8:00 am - 12:00 noon
at The Glendale Narrows Riverwalk Park located at the intersection of Paula Avenue and Garden Street in Glendale, California 91201
http://northeasttrees.org/volunteer.html
August 5, 2012
Metro Board Meets Monday to Vote on Measure R Amendment Allowing Highway/Transit Funding Swap
The Metro Board of Directors will meet in special session on Monday to debate a motion put forward by Board Member and Duarte City Councilman John Fasana. The motion would allow the Board of Directors to move Measure R funds between projects within a region and makes further funding of the Gold Line Foothill Extension a possibility.
August 3, 2012
Budget For Bike Action Plan Encounters Setbacks, But Progress Continues
Yesterday, the Santa Monica Daily Press published a story documenting "budget adjustments" affecting the city’s Bike Action Plan. The changes being made are driven by a number of factors with declining state revenue to the city being chief among them. The changes went largely unnoticed until planning commissioner Richard McKinnon started digging into the matter and discovered numbers weren’t adding up to prior promises.
August 3, 2012
High Economic Stakes for Pittsburgh as Transit Doomsday Looms
It was a rough few decades, but Rust Belt stalwart Pittsburgh seems to be pulling ahead. This former steel town, its name once synonymous with industrial decline, has rebuilt its economy largely around higher education. It recently attracted a Google corporate office.
August 3, 2012
Today’s Headlines
San Diego Union Tribune: Desert XPress a Second “Bullet Train Disaster” FYI: It’s Technically Not Allowed to Have Unfolded Shopping Carts on Metro Buses (Intersections) Metro Brings in Rail Expert to Look at Problematic Junction (LAT) Another Carmageddon II Warning (The Source, LAT) Daily News Has a Photo Gallery…of the Press Conference Report: Harmful Emissions … Continued
August 3, 2012
Riding for a Cause, They Cast a Shadow Wherever They Pass
(If you want to help Cast a Shadow raise funds for clean water filters in Ghana or a cause closer to home, you can donate here.)
August 2, 2012
Educational Opportunity: Dr. Eric Walsh Discusses Health Effects of High Density Development on Children
This Friday morning, the California African American Museum (CAAM) will play host to a free breakfast talk by Eric Walsh, MD, MPH, on the Adverse Health Effects on Children of High-Density Development in Urban Transportation Corridors. Walsh is Director of Public Health/Health Officer for the City of Pasadena Public Health Department.
August 2, 2012
Governors Get on Board With Smart Growth
As yesterday's post about Oklahoma City's fight to replace a downtown highway with a real urban boulevard illustrated so well, cities are often at the vanguard of smart urban planning and transportation choices while state-level agencies can be laggards. So it's nice to see some governors and ex-governors stepping forward to emphasize the value of smart growth policies.
August 2, 2012
Metro Atlanta’s Sales Tax “Savings” Will Come at a High Price
It's rare that a region attempts a transportation vote as potentially transformative as the one that took place Tuesday in Atlanta. And even though voters elected not to act -- voting down a package of 157 transit and road projects totaling more than $7 billion -- that doesn't mean nothing's going to change for this sprawling, southeastern metropolis.
August 2, 2012