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• Cops are cracking down on pedestrains at 7th Street Metro Center.
• Is California high speed rail just a romantic dream?
• Senator Jim Battin, representing Riverside, visits Japan and concludes California high speed rail must be privatized if it is to succeed.
• Despite unified message, politicians continue to ignore San Gabriel Valley residents desire for Gold Line extension.
• Bringing a streetcar to NoHo, sounds great, but would it be safe?
• It wasn’t greedy taxi companies or parking czars that kept the Green Line from the airport, but surprise surprise, politics!

• The L.A. Bicycle Master Plan is a plan all right, just not one that is particularly friendly to bicyclists
• My Super Sweet Sixteen: the car is playing a smaller role in everyone’s favorite birthday milestone
• Cities are working to help pedestrians for once
• Downtown wants their connector underground, no ifs ands or buts
• Is doing more of the same really a 180? Street Heat thinks not

Photo courtesy of alonzoD via Flickr.

• 78 people cited in 3 hours for violating laws around Santa Clarita rail crossings
• Same deal: In a 20-minute period 4 drivers rushed through lowering gates at Santa Clarita rail crossings
• Wired magazine takes a look at the subway to the sea
• Despite opposition, Mayor says Pico and Olympic are becoming one-way streets
• Pedestrians win, 2nd street widening halted in Downtown

The sceninc lounge on an Amtrak Southwest Chief.

• City Beat takes a look at Damien Goodmon and his plan to fix… or halt… Expo
• Cops defend their case in the Koreatown Pedestrian Crackdown 2008
• CBS News takes a look at the growing popularity of Amtrak and its funding challenges versus highways and planes (video)
• The Mayor waits for a 720 and transfers to the Red Line

Pedestrains cross Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles.

• The LA Straphanger provides a great video review that critiques the pedestrian friendliness of a block of Sixth Street in Downtown
• Women-only buses a hit in Mexico City - could a similar idea work to get more women Metro Riders in Los Angeles? Are pervs are problem on Metro?
• Gordon Price talks about Los Angeles’s transit failings compared to Vancouver’s successes
• RT Rider dreams of a multi-modal alliance of transit, bike, and pedestrian advocates to lobby for car-free funding

• Downtown moves a step closer to reviving its streetcars
• Koreatown Kontroversy: peds getting the smack down from cops
• A look at bus rapid transit in Bogota, Columbia
• A look at street cars and light rail in North America, a Canadian perspective