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A listing of blogs specific to the Los Angeles are that cover alternative transportation including mass transit, bicycling, and walking.

• Blogin Traffic
  Manuel A. blogs about transportation problems and possible solutions in Los Angeles.
• Bottleneck Blog
  Produced by the Los Angeles Times local news staff as a clearinghouse for a topic close to the hearts of all Southern Californians: traffic.
• Brayj Against The Machine
  Bicycle advocacy blog.
• Citizens’ Advisory Council Blog
  The Citizens’ Advisory Council (CAC) was established in 1977. Its membership reflects a broad spectrum of interests and geographic areas of the County. The purpose of the CAC is to consult, obtain and collect public input on matters of interest and concern to the community, and to communicate the CAC’s recommendations with respect to such issues to the Metro Board of Directors. Issues may also be assigned to the CAC by the Board for its review, comment and recommendation.
• Ditch the car, take the Metro
  “I am obsessed with getting a subway built and built right in Los Angeles. Here are my evolving ideas for how that could be done.”
• illuminateLA
  A blog about the Los Angeles Culture, the Communities that connect us and that separate us and also the Ride that makes our every days travel an adventure. The ride on your bike as well as on our public transportation.
• LA Transit Blog
  They have a subway in Los Angeles?
• LA Visions
  Challenges for the Los Angeles region are acute, especially in transportation, housing, Global Warming, and the coming decline of fossil fuels. Explore possibilities to make it more livable and sustainable, and celebrate special places, past and present.
• Los Angeles Transportation Headlines
  A daily journal of transit, transportation, and urban planning information collected from local, regional, and national web sources, published by the Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) or “Metro”.
• MetroPed
  A blog dedicated to bicycling, pedestrian, and public transit advocacy in Los Angeles. In a vast city ruled by the automobile, we will strive to explore the many facets of using alternative modes of transportation, in the hopes that readers will be encouraged to leave their cars at home, reduce fossil fuel consumption, and become involved in an ongoing dialog about improving our quality of life on this planet.
• My Daily Ride
  “Currently I do not own a vehicle and must rely on the MTA. Prior to this situation I have had a car, however I do enjoy riding the bus, the trains and other forms of alternative transportation, even the bicycle every opportunity I get.”
• Pedestrian View of Los Angeles
  “I am one of the few people (four percent) of the residents of Los Angeles who gets entirely around by bus. I just got a new camera so that I could get back into this long-standing hobby of mine and to also use it for this blog.”
• The Pink Line
  Created to support and track progress towards a Santa Monica Blvd. transit line and other matters affecting the renaissance and resurrection of public transit in Southern California.
• Rail Riders Union Headlines
  The Rail Riders Union’s mission is to promote new transportation solutions for Los Angeles. As a not-for-profit mutual benefit corporation, the Rail Riders Union relies on the support of people like you in our efforts to educate Southern Californians on the need for an expanded subway system, identify supporters of new transit projects and mobilize them to give Los Angeles the subway system it deserves as a world-class city. Where it exists, Los Angeles’ subway and light rail system is widely used—but the limited service of the rail system makes it inconvenient for too many Angelenos. The Rail Riders Union represents not just those who are lucky enough to live or work near mass transit, but also those who would take the subway if it came to their neighborhoods.
• SoapBoxLA
  Access and mobility issues from two urban adventurers.
• Streetsblog LA
  Streetsblog seeks to cover the news about life on L.A.’s streets in a way that emphasizes that our roads are a public good, not a means to moving as many cars through a community as quickly as possible. L.A.’s transportation planning has revolved around its car culture for decades, but now that a streets revolution is coming, Streetsblog will be here to chronicle it all.
• Street Heat
  A series of observations about the transportation scene in LA, SoCal, California, and the world.
• The Bus Bench
  A figurative and literal look at life on the metropolitan ground floor.
• The L.A. Metro Mole
  A critique of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority’s management and operations.
• Westside BikeSIDE!
  West Los Angeles bicycle enthusiasm.

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A listing of alternative transportation blogs from all corners of the world, with the exception of Los Angeles.

• 295bus
  Adventures & Opinions in Bay Area Transit
• Bus Chick, Transit Authority
  Carla Saulter is one of a growing number of Seattleites who have chosen to live without a car. Because Seattle still does not have in-city rapid transit, she takes the bus everywhere—really, everywhere—she goes. On any given Saturday night, you can find her running for the number 27 in heels and a backless dress.
• Buses, Trains, and the Media
  Steve Hirano, a former editor of transit/motorcoach and school bus magazines, shares his thoughts on the public transportation industry and how it is depicted in the media.
• California High Speed Rail Blog
  California High Speed Rail support blog, spreading news and info about the high speed trains bond plan going before California voters in November 2008.
• California Transportation & Transit Issues
  Posting thoughts on city and state issues concerning transportation, housing and politics.

• Cap’n Transit Rides Again
  Cars are bad. Transit is good. Walking and cycling are good. Trains are better than buses.
• Carectomy
  Cars are the most inconvenient convenience we have. We’re required to have them, but increasingly, we dislike them. At Carectomy, we’re trying to figure out how to extract cars from people.
• Carfree USA
  A blog promoting the joys of car free life in the USA.
• Carless in Seattle
  I care about global warming, libertarian economics, personal responsibility, density vs sprawl and, frankly, annoyance that I am one of the 1/3rd of people who cross the 520 Bridge every day in just 5% of high-occupancy vehicles (read “bus”), but am jammed into traffic with the 95% of (single-passenger) vehicles that carry just 2/3rds of the people across the bridge.
• Carsharing.US
  Information, issues and ideas for U.S. and North American carsharing services and partners.
• City Transit Advocates
  A pro-transit blog aggregator.
• CTA Tattler
  Seen and heard on the Chicago Transit Authority.
• Dr. Transit
  Dr. Transit advocates for improved non-automobile mobility–buses, underground subway, above-ground streetcars, light rail, commuter rail, higher speed rail, passenger rail, plus biking and pedestrian-centric compact communities. While the blog focuses on the Washington, DC region, it references other areas.
• Free Public Transit
  The beginning of the end of autosprawl.
• Intermodality
  Christof Spieler on highways, transit, roads, bike paths, etc., etc., and how they all fit together.
• Headway
  This blog is about improving public transportation. While the most obvious way to improve transit is to provide more of it, that’s an undertaking that usually requires heaps of money and a great deal of political process. However, there are plenty of improvements that a handful of passionate individuals can achieve on a shoestring budget.
• KC Light Rail
  An independent source for news, information, and analysis of the approved light rail plan for Kansas City, Missouri.
• M1EK’s Bake-Sale of Bile
  Mostly Austin. Mostly transportation. Mostly bile.
• Orphan Road
  Dedicated to anything and everything transportation-related in the Seattle area. Our community is in the process of embarking on a once-in-a-generation infrastructure upgrade. From the Alaskan Way Viaduct to the 520 Bridge to Light Rail, we’re making changes, and making them quickly. We’ll keep tabs on it and keep you informed.
• Permanent Campaigns
  Strategic communications blog for the transit industry.
• Portland Transport
  A conversation about access and mobility in the Portland/Vancouver region.
• Public Routes Blog
  Blog from the transit-friendly web based mapping resource, Public Routes.
• Publitransit.us
  The purpose of Publictransit.us is threefold. First, to provide on-line access to resources such as our transit traffic density and other original transit research. Second, to inform those interested in transit issues with relevant news and informed commentary. Third, to counter those who oppose effective public transportation, and to control the damage done by purveyors of ineffective and/or unrealistic technical solutions.
• RailBlogr
  Everything on rails hauling human cargo: Long-haul passenger rail, short-haul passenger rail, commuter rail, light rail, heavy rail, subway systems and of course, the legendary “L” (or “El,” if you’re from Philadelphia) systems of North America and everything rail everywhere else.
• RailLife
  Light Rail is gaining steam in Arizona. Lot’s of changes are taking place along the 20 mile route. We will be following and commenting on many aspects of the Light Rail line in Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa.
• Rail Transit in Grand Rapids
  Rail-ize Yourself.
• RT Driver
  “This blog is intended as a means to share the good and bad that come with my job as a Bus and Rail operator at RT, as well as to shine some light on the awesome things that I encounter and people I meet almost every day.”
• RT Rider
  Travels of a rookie commuter as he learns the ins and outs of relying on Sacramento Regional Transit.
• San Francisco Cityscape
  No longer a blog, but a collection of (amazing) transit maps, photos, and links to other sites.
• Seattle Transit Blog
  “At this blog, I will attempt to document, discuss, and gripe about the progress and regress that is made in Seattle’s attempt to develop proper transit systems around the area.”
• Second Avenue Sagas
  A blog about the New York City subway.
• SEPTA Watch
  Reporting on the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), Philadelphia’s transit system. According to Permanent Campaigns Consulting, it “takes a somewhat negative but usually respectful (and always engaged) look at the Philly transit scene. Also very funny.”
• StationStops
  New York City Metro Commuter Blog - Mobile Entertainment and Productivity
• Steve Munro’s Web Site
  Transit, Politics, Reviews
• Streetsblog
  Covering the New York City streets renaissance.
• Tampa Rail
  A blog devoted to ongoing commentary and exhibition of Tampa and Hillsborough County Florida’s rail transit development; primarily editorializing and disseminating from an advocacy viewpoint in an attempt to galvanize material public support and imagination for some form of a fixed guide way transportation solution.
• The Boise Bus Blog
  An unofficial blog for public transportation supporters and users in and around Boise, Idaho.
• The N-Judah Chronicles
  Tales of MUNI woe, City life, and more
• The Overhead Wire
  Sending up transit and TOD with a little unconventional wisdom.
• TrainBlog
  Blogging about passenger trains, high-speed rail, Amtrak, Caltrain, VTA, railroads, transit, public transportation, passenger rail advocacy and related politics.
• Trainjotting
  Covers the picayune details about commuting to Manhattan, and back again.
• Trains For America
  This is a rational conversation about good transportation. Much of the public policy discussion centers on the emotions of hard-core “railfans” and greedy corporate interests. The great trains of the 1940’s are dead and gone forever, but America still needs passenger trains for business and personal travel. So far, airlines, highways, and trucking special interests have monopolized the debate. Interstate highways are an essential part of our transportation system, but that’s obvious. Air travel is convenient and cheap. Reliable trains ought to be an option for intermediate length trips and under-served rural areas. Americans should enjoy the same travel options other nations take for granted.
• Transbay Blog
  Transit and urban planning in the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Transit in Utah
  Transit it Utah is dedicated to improving transit in the state of Utah especially along the Wasatch Front.
• Transit Miami
  Transit Miami is dedicated to the Transit and Urban Planning issues which plague the Greater Miami Region.
• Transit Sleuth
  “I’ve named the blog after what it is about, my transit sleuthing of transit history, events, and current happenings. Read, comment, and enjoy the discussion.”
• VTA Watch
  Taking a Close Look into the Offices at 3331 North First Street
• Washington State Transportation
  A blog dedicated to Washington State rail, bus, air, ferry, and road transportation.

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Organizations and groups dedicated to the cause of alternative transportation in Los Angeles.

• Bus Riders Union
  The Bus Riders Union seeks to promote environmentally sustainable public transportation for the entire population of Los Angeles, on the premise that affordable, efficient, and environmentally sound mass transit is a human right. The organizing and public policy work of the Bus Riders Union reflects the principle that the needs of low-income people, and oppressed nationality peoples and communities – Black, Latino, Mexicano/Chicano, Asian/Pacific Islander and Indigenous peoples must be given priority since they suffer systematic racial and national oppression in our society.
• C.I.C.L.E.
  Utilizing a multi-faceted approach which incorporates web-based outreach, social and recreational bicycle rides, festivals and events, and bicycle safety workshops – CICLE educates and encourages people to think about bicycling as an active and healthy lifestyle option, a valid and sustainable transportation choice, and as a means to reconnect with their neighbors and their community.
• Friends 4 Expo
  “We are an all-volunteer group of citizens joined together to support an alternative to L.A.’s world-record traffic: a fast, comfortable, safe, quiet, exhaust-free, high-capacity light rail transit line — with landscaping and bike path — from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica.”
• Mobility 21 Coalition
  A coalition that brings together public, business and community stakeholders to pursue regional solutions to the transportation challenges facing Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura Counties. A nonpartisan alliance, Mobility 21 delivers a unified voice for the region’s transportation priorities and seeks to improve mobility in the region.
• Rail Riders Union
  The Rail Riders Union’s mission is to promote new transportation solutions for Los Angeles. As a not-for-profit mutual benefit corporation, the Rail Riders Union relies on the support of people like you in our efforts to educate Southern Californians on the need for an expanded subway system, identify supporters of new transit projects and mobilize them to give Los Angeles the subway system it deserves as a world-class city. Where it exists, Los Angeles’ subway and light rail system is widely used—but the limited service of the rail system makes it inconvenient for too many Angelenos. The Rail Riders Union represents not just those who are lucky enough to live or work near mass transit, but also those who would take the subway if it came to their neighborhoods.
• Southern California Transit Advocates
  An organization created to discuss issues, disseminate information, advocate, support and encourage all measures and policies deemed necessary for the creation of a truly adequate transit system chiefly throughout the five county Los Angeles metropolitan region. The organization also monitors the maintenance of an efficient transit system for the people of the Los Angeles metropolitan region for their present and future use.
• Subway to the Sea Coalition
  Bringing together environmental, business, labor and community organizations and leaders to champion a vital element of Los Angeles County’s transportation agenda: the Wilshire Corridor subway - the Subway to the Sea.
• The Transit Coalition
  The Coalition works to develop a safe, integrated, cost effective and environmentally sound public transportation system for the greater Los Angeles Region. The Transit Coalition realizes that government must not only look at the tangible cost of running and building a public transportation network, but also the intangible benefits that such a system provides, such as better health, less pollution, reasonable travel time, ease of use, coordinated schedules with a minimum amount of transferring between routes.

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Online tools and resources to help make your Los Angeles transit oriented lifestyle that much easier.

• Clever Commute
  Exchange e-mail messages with your fellow riders to ease and speed your commute. Use your mobile e-mail device to navigate delays via timely info from people making the same trip as you. Get the help of your colleagues who are actually there (or have just come through it). To date, no one has brought together these communities of interest. The Clever Commute is a peer-to-peer forum which changes that.
• LADOT Transit Online
  The City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) currently operates the second largest fleet in Los Angeles County next to LACMTA.
• LA Passenger
  Send and receive train delay alerts on your cell phone or mobile device. Delay alerts come from other passengers like you, so they are timely, informative and accurate. You can also send delay reports when you want fellow passengers down the line to know about an issue.
• Metrolink
  Southern California’s commuter train service.
• Metro Advanced Trip Planner
  Metro’s official trip planner with all the bells and whistles.
• Metro.net
  The official website of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority.
• Public Routes
  Third-party transit directions and transit maps.
• Transit Rider Los Angeles
  Comprehensive list of transit service and agencies in Los Angeles County.
• Transit Talent
  The Career Hub for Public Transportation

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Transit oriented online forums, social networking sites, and other virtual communities.

• Bike Los Angeles! MySpace
  Los Angeles is a beautiful city, but most people never really enjoy it because they are stuck in their cars, stuck in traffic. Fortunately there are many active groups, formal and informal, who are working hard to get people out of their cars and onto bikes. This city is changing so fast, we almost can’t keep up. Join us. Not because it is the right thing to do, but because it is so much fun. This page was born out of Bike Summer 2005 and since exists to keep people up to date on bike stuff in LA.
• Los Angeles Metro YouTube Channel
  A collection of online videos of the Los Angeles Metro.
• Metro Interactive
  Metro’s offical interactive web presence.
• Metro Libray & Archive MySpace
  MySpace page of Metro’s Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive.
• MetroRiderLA Facebook Group
  Facebook group for fans and readers of MetroRiderLA. Discuss posts, meet other MetroRiders, and stay up to date.
• MetroRiderLA Flickr Photo Pool
  A Flickr companion to MetroRiderLA. Los Angeles transit pictures from all sorts of MetroRiders. Newest pictures are streamed on the blog.
• MetroRiderLA Forum
  Transit Oriented Discussion forum from your friends at MetroRiderLA.
• MetroRiderLA MySpace
  MySpace page of MetroRiderLA.
• MetroRiderLA YouTube Channel
  Online videos from MetroRiderLA as well as links to other Los Angeles transit oriented videos.
• The L.A. Transit Riders Community
  Live Journal community for residents of Los Angels County to share their bus and/or rail-riding experiences, as well at to discuss new regarding the MTA and the various municipal agencies located throughout the county.
• The Transit Coalition Forum
  Active discussion forum for members and friends of the Transit Coalition.

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Los Angeles blogs covering Los Angeles in general, not transportation specific.

• angelenic
  A resource to keep Downtowners informed about the construction, retail, restaurants and other organic improvements that are refashioning our neighborhoods.
• Atwater Village Newbie
  “For more than a year I’ve been living in a northeast Los Angeles neighborhood called Atwater Village. I like it here.”
• blogdowntown
  The goal of the site is to cover Downtown from a pedestrian perspective. News to us is what we see in our day to day lives. We feel that Downtown will become what its residents make it. We want blogdowntown to be a place where those of us who live and work here can have a conversation about what Downtown is and what it can become.
• Curbed LA
  From the studio lots to the downtown lofts. From the beachfront bungalows to the canyon views. From the south bay to the valley, from the westside to the eastside—Curbed LA covers our sense of place, and the neighborhoods we call home.
• Dig Lounge
  Dig LA, movies, music, food, politics, gossip and more, in and around Los Angeles
• Emerald City Blog
  Siel follows the road to green living Los Angeles.
• ExperienceLA Blog
  ExperienceLA Bloggers experience the diversity of Los Angeles arts and culture, giving insight on their adventures. This blog is in conjunction with ExperienceLA.com - a free public service and online resource for Los Angeles arts and culture.
• Franklin Avenue
  Mike and Maria eat, drink, shop and live in Los Angeles.
• Go To Green LA
  GoToGreenLA.com is where you’ll find all of the green events taking place in and around Los Angeles. For our purposes here, “green” events are anything with a sustainable, eco-friendly, environmentally-conscious motivation.
• Green LA Girl
  Siel, a grad student and writer, on green living in Los Angeles.
• Here in Van Nuys
  About, but not limited to, Van Nuys, CA.
• L.A. Stories
  Life of a married couple in Los Angeles.
• LA Observed
  Los Angeles media, politics, and sense of place since 2003.
• LAist
  Aist is a website about Los Angeles and everything that happens in it. That means news and events, restaurants and bars, happenings and goings-on.
• Losanjealous
  Losanjealous is Los Angeles’ grassroots Web site, publishing original creative content and the best local independent music and events calendars.
• Metroblogging Los Angeles
  Written from the perspective of people who live, work, and play here every day, Los Angeles is one of over forty five (and growing) blogs in the globe-spanning Metroblogging network.
• Militant Angeleno
  “Why am I making this blog? Because I feel most other L.A. blogs, as celebrated as they are, show a decidedly white, transplanted gentro-hipster point of view of the city. As an American-born member of an unspecified immigrant community from an unspecified third world country, long ignored by traditional forms of media, I’m just tryin to represent.”
• Sean Yoda’s El Lay Centric
  A Jedi Master’s ramblings about where he lives.
• The Foothill Cities Blog
  Blog that covers all aspects of life in the Foothill Cities.
• Toward an Interactive Urban Evnironment
  “I live in the Historic Core of downtown Los Angeles and work in Riverside. I like to walk around and take pictures.”

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