BAY AREA TRAFFIC AND SMOG: I think it’s high time that other cities/regions get due credit for their lousy traffic and smog. I was in San Francisco area this past weekend and took the above photo on a decidedly un-breezy day when San Francisco’s smog output wasn’t being blown inland [continue reading]
A community update meeting for the L.A. Streetcar project is tonight from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Caltrans building (100 S. Main Street) in downtown Los Angeles. In case you missed it, here’s our post from last week about the new briefing package available on the project and [continue reading]
The Metro team studying the possible resurrection of streetcar service in downtown Los Angeles has released a briefing package [PDF] that details the seven routes now under consideration and compares the pros and cons of each. Metro planners have been winnowing potential routes — “alternatives” in planner speak — since [continue reading]
Metro is holding a public meeting at 5:30 p.m. today in the 1st floor conference room at the Caltrans building (1st and Main streets) to discuss the planning process and possible routes for the return of streetcar service in downtown Los Angeles. Here is a link to a previous Source [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. The Virtues of Investing in Transportation (New York Times) Another day, another article about the need for the U.S. to get serious [continue reading]
A study by AECOM released today reveals that the proposed $125 million downtown L.A. streetcar system would bring major economic returns to the city center in the form of new development, job creation and tax revenue. AECOM is a “a global provider of professional technical and management support services” and [continue reading]
Los Angeles Streetcar Inc. (LASI), the non-profit public/private partnership working to bring a 4-mile streetcar line to downtown L.A., released the above video last Thursday at a fundraising event that raised over $200,000. The money raised on Thursday is just a small drop in the bucket for the proposed project [continue reading]
In the cosmic scheme of things, it’s not a lot of money, but the House of Representatives has set aside $250,000 for further study of a streetcar system in downtown Los Angeles, according to a press release issued by L.A. Councilman Jose Huizar. The project is still very much in [continue reading]
