MetroRiderLA

• The high price of gas has to be the fault of some greedy corporation or overzealous government, right?
• The United States is stuck in oil based stasis as the rest of the world moves on.
• Transit agencies face increased ridership and increased fuel costs.
• Planners transforming Sepulveda and Lincoln Boulevard in Westchester into pedestrian friendly thoroughfares.
• Starting in July, it may be a lot easier to catch a cab in Downtown and Hollywood.
• Questioning the solvency of the Gold Line in spite of increased ridership.

• A Damien Goodmon video from earlier this year surfaces.  Comments ensue.
• Megabus bids adieu to the West Coast.  We hardly knew ye.
• Don’t worry drivers, money spent on gasoline is just 17% of the total cost of car ownership.
• Republicans don’t realize that money spent on gasoline is just 17% of the total cost of car ownership.
• Even though the cost of gas is only 17% of the total cost of car ownership, the price increase is leading more people to the Gold Line.  If these people choose to dump their cars altogether they could get back the other 83%.

• Valley residents to Metro: We Imagine a future without growth.
• Peter Gordon vs. Bart Reed: Blah blah blah, city planning, blah blah blah, congestion pricing, blah blah blah, sprawl, blah blah blah.
• Gold Line to Montclair bill working its way through Washington.
• Yet another article about the unfairness of congestion pricing. Yawn.

Image courtesy of Thomas Hawk.

• The Bus Bench says no to extending the Gold Line to Whittier.
• Kuruma Banare? Car sales are down in the US, but automakers hope the federal economic stimulus package will get people buying cars again.
• The Daily Breeze prints the exact same stupid opinion piece on Mike Feuer’s Assembly Bill 2558 (the “climate-transit tax”) that the Long Beach Press Telegram printed last week.
• Classic Los Angeles: Intense regulation meant to keep the private car culture flourishing prevents a form of alternative transportation from functioning. Taxi cabs spend most of their time at the curb, not driving people around

• Bus travel making a comeback? Megabus faces new competition with Bolt Bus (on the East Coast).
• CalPIRG students take an extended spring break with a bike tour from San Francisco to LA to promote high speed rail.
• By removing landscaping (who needs it), Dodger Stadium adds 1,000 more parking spaces, but fans are still aprehensive about traffic.
• Livable Places is hosting a Community Workshop to make the Chinatown Gold Line station more pedestrain/bicyclist friendly.

Image courtesy of lazytom.

• Amtrak teams up with Coachella to offer free rides to Indio for 500 concert goers.
• Breaking News! McDonalds Hamburger gets hit by Red Line train!
• Support for transit sales tax falls, tolls and public private partnerships looked at instead.
• Students ask 4 Gold Line to Montclair w/ a kewl website.