Forty years ago today, at 6:01 a.m., an earthquake near San Fernando measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale rolled across Southern California, leaving at least 65 dead and staggering structural damage. While the Northridge Earthquake of 1994 is the largest shaker in recent…
1,000,000 And Counting: Metro Library’s Historic Photo Collection On Flickr Hits A Major Milestone
Today, we achieved something extraordinary: Our online photo collection has been viewed more than one million times on Flickr since implementation. Just over two years ago, we began uploading the first of what is now more than 7,000 scanned images from our historic…
Research Roundup: Which High-Speed Rail Corridors Are Poised For Success? How Does Smart Growth Promote Wealth? Why Is Intercity Bus Travel The Fastest Growing Transportation Mode?
The United States has embarked on a program of building high-speed rail corridors in the nation’s most urbanized corridors and regions. This is a bold step toward meeting the infrastructure needs of the coming century, including providing capacity for economic…
20 Years Ago Today: Groundbreaking For The “Fully Automated” Metro Green Line…But Why Doesn’t It Go To LAX?
Today marks the 20th anniversary of Metro’s Green Line groundbreaking. The 23-mile long rail line connects Norwalk in the east to El Segundo and Westchester in the west. Speakers at the groundbreaking ceremony held at the future Aviation / LAX…
Recent Research: High-Speed Rail And California’s Economic Growth, Reducing Transportation’s GHG Emissions & Do Roads Pay For Themselves?
It seems that each month, we see an increasing number of news stories and blog posts that either champion high-speed rail as the transportation mode of the future or an infrastructure boondoggle wasting money that we don’t even have. Beyond The…