MetroRiderLA

Image courtesy of Payton Chung.

• Getting around Wilshire on Earth Day, car-free of course!
• L.A. Times: Let’s fix our current transit system before trying to build a new one.
• Reasons to vote for California High Speed Rail.
• John Kerczek provides density data for a future Westside transit system.
• Freakonomics and the external costs of personal automobiles.
• Congestion pricing regressive?  HA!  Take a look at how car-culture as a whole is regressive.
• Environmental costs of cars that you don’t think about: the afterlife of tires.

Things got a “little” busy with my billable work last week, thus the lack of updates. Hopefully this week I’ll be able to up the ante to make up for it.

Image courtesy of Coneee.

• Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus celebrates 80 years of service today.
• United Airlines Hemispheres Magazine takes a look at the growing car-free movement.
• Reality Check: Growth in Los Angeles is not going to stop, not matter what.
• Zev on density: “Housing should also be built around subway, bus and light-rail stations.“
• Redondo Beach man gives a car-free commute a try.
• New security checks on the Red Line are part of a larger bum control issue.

• America’s Funniest Transit Videos: Shabby Los Angeles Metro Buses!
• Density must be centralized to be effective.
• The United States poor transportation infrastructure, and lack of a plan for the future, spells trouble for the economy.
• Car Accident: 75-year old woman dies after making an illegal left-hand turn into oncoming traffic.
• Wired takes a look at Metro’s Long Range Plan, and the challenges L.A. faces when it comes to mobility

• “We’ve widened and widened and widened . . . over and over again,” yet the Costa Mesa Freeway remains one of the worst traffic bottlenecks in the country.
• Palmdale Airport and Metrolink connected by new Palmdale Flyer Express Bus, modeled after the FlyAway.
• Parking problems at Los Angeles Coliseum are nothing new.
• Sidestepping Metro to bring Green Line to LAX? Maybe, but funding still the main problem.
• Line 256 is on the chopping block and Councilman José Huizar hopes to save it.
• Los Angeles the third densest city in the United States.

• Commentary on density, growth, and the media in Los Angeles.
• A look at L.A.’s lost “cycleway”.
• Climate change brings planning changes.
• Pasadena residents walk in order to make one of the most walkable communities in L.A. even more walkable.
• Downtown gets a new DASH line, loses the City Hall Shuttle.