Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Trains

Cutting Train Budgets Could De-Rail Transamerican Routes

By Kathryn Reid Moore | May 17, 2011 | No Comments

The idyllic cross-country train trips that many Americans still take could get derailed by today’s “slash and burn” federal budget policies. Meanwhile, fears for the safety of rail passengers in the post-bin Laden era are drumming up political support for costly security measures and raising, once again, questions about why the federal government funds rail […]

Just for Fun: Vintage Culver City Footage in Rail Training Film

By Damien Newton | May 5, 2011 | No Comments

Via our friends at Culver City Living, comes this 97-year-old training film for Pacific Electric rail car conductors. The eight minute video isn’t just a fun piece of transit history, it also provides some old views of Culver City. The sequence from 1:00 to 1:35 was filmed at the corner of Venice and Sepulveda. Look […]

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Government Shutdown Would Be a Punch in the Gut to Transit Agencies

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 8, 2011 | No Comments

A powwow between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, President Obama, and House Speaker John Boehner last night failed to yield a compromise that would put a budget in place before the government shuts down at midnight tonight. The failure of yet another attempt to negotiate makes a government shutdown all but inevitable. Just a month […]

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A Call to Plan Cities for Tomorrow, While Bracing for Transit Cuts Today

By Alice Ollstein | Apr 5, 2011 | No Comments

USDOT Deputy Secretary John Porcari kicked off the Transportation Equity Network’s “One Nation, Indivisible” conference yesterday with a call to think long-term. By 2050, he said, we can expect the U.S. population to grow by 100 million people, and nearly all of them will live in large urban centers. Problems like crumbling infrastructure, inadequate transit […]

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Buses vs. Rail: Conservatives Do Battle Over Which Mode is Better

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 11, 2011 | No Comments

Bill Lind is a big man. The director of the Center for Public Transportation at American Conservative stands well over six feet tall, and when he really gets going, he seems to loom even larger. Maybe that’s why he hates buses so much. “Those seats designed for garden gnomes,” he said. A roundtable discussion yesterday […]

What now for the West Hollywood Transit Corridor?

By Dan Wentzel | Nov 16, 2010 | 23 Comments

(I noticed an uptick in press discussions about “density and transit” and “density and West Hollywood.” To respond to these articles, many of which are predicting doom for anyone foolish enough to try and densify their cities, I asked Dan Wentzel, a transit advocate who resides in West Hollywood, to take take a turn at […]

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