We’ve written before about the financial crunch facing most transit operators in the current economy, but many agencies are countering difficult decisions with new ways to supplement revenue beyond the usual raising of fares and cutting staff and service. Last…
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Sustainability In Transportation: A New International Exhibit And Metro Library’s Up-To-The-Minute Resources
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An international exhibit on sustainable transportation opens today in New York titled “Our Cities Ourselves,” a joint program of the Institute for Transportation and Development policy and the AIA Center for Architecture. Sustainability has become a wide-ranging term inclusive of…
Lost Parkways Of Los Angeles: The 1946 Proposed Interregional, Regional And Metropolitan Plan
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In the long history of transit planning in Los Angeles, early documents focused on relieving congestion with new street plans. Shortly after phenomenal growth in both area and population before World War II, various studies and reports outlined ambitious plans…
Who Let The Data Out?: Comparing Transit Systems’ Open Data Elements
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Washington D.C. is the latest transit agency of note to open its data to the public – and they are going all out to take the lead in this area in order to improve service. The agency is creating a…
Transit Agency Cooperation In Mid-Century L.A. (Or Lack Thereof)…
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How do we increase the appeal of public transit ridership in Los Angeles? Recent Los Angeles Times columns (here, here, and here) suggest that streamlining transfers and passes within and across agencies could go a long way to make transit…