Years before the El Monte Busway became the first dedicated freeway lanes for buses and decades before the Metro Silver Line began running, the Freeway Flyer service was created in response to increasing traffic congestion. The exodus of Los Angeles’…
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Primary Resources
The Key To Transportation Research: Harnessing The Wealth Of Information In The TRB Databases
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) recently conducted a webinar that explored practical tips for searching the Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS), Research In Progress (RIP), and Research Needs Statements (RNS) databases. This 90-minute session, titled “Knowledge Is Power: How TRB’s…
Go Play On The Freeway! Cap Park Proposals And A Look Back At The Highway Relationship To Park Planning In Los Angeles
Over the past few years, large cities have sought to increase the availability recreational space in crowded urban environments. The success of Chicago’s Millennium Park and New York’s High Line show imaginative planning and construction of new places to meet…
From Bad To Worse: Mapping The Transit Funding Crisis
Last summer, Transportation For America published Stranded At The Station: The Impact Of The Financial Crisis In Public Transportation. It reviewed the recent growth in ridership and outlined the numerous benefits of public transit in terms of mobility, economic issues,…
The Beauty Of “Crowdsourcing” From Social Media
Photo credit: James Cridland via Flickr We want to let you know about a correction to a previous post showing a photograph of the Los Angeles Railway W Line in front of the Southwest Museum, dated 1914. Very shortly after…
Hooray For Hollywood: Your Streetcar Is Here, But Your Subway Doesn’t Arrive For Almost 50 Years
Northbound Highland Avenue just south of Hollywood Boulevard, looking northwest. The Hotel Hollywood is at the northwest corner of the intersection which is the current site of the Hollywood & Highland Entertainment Complex and Metro’s Red Line Hollywood/Highland station. Note…
Getting To Dodger Stadium: The Aerial Gondola And Escalators That Never Were
The successful launch of the Dodger Stadium Express this month allows many people to not only fight traffic and reduce air pollution, but to take other public transportation to Union Station to take advantage of the shuttle service. We wanted…
100 Years Before The Gold Line…
Long before the Arroyo Seco Parkway became the first of many iconic freeways in the Los Angeles area, the Los Angeles Railway rolled through the Mt. Washington and Highland Park neighborhoods where the Gold Line now runs.
Economic Impact Study: Measure R Projects, 2009-2038
One driving force behind this blog is the multitude of highway and transit improvement projects being planned and completed over the next 30 years. The Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation has released The Construction Impact Of Metro’s Measure R…
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