Since its founding in 1965, the California Transit Association (CTA) has been a primary advocate for public transportation in the state. The Association’s team of legislative advocates works to promote multi-year transit funding and to represent transit’s interests before the…
Resources To Know: The MUTCD — A Book In The News This Week You May Never Have Heard Of That Impacts You Every Day
A relatively obscure book is receiving its 15 minutes (or more) of fame this week, The Manual On Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). This set of federal standards for traffic signs, road surface markings, and signals is a primary resource…
Digitization And Transportation: Northwestern University’s Google Books Project
Beginning today, Northwestern University’s Transportation Library begins its Google Books Digitization Project. The University Libraries and Google are partnering to digitize hundreds of thousands of print volumes from their collections, rendering the contents readily available to scholars and researchers worldwide.…
Light Rail On Wilshire? Why, That Would Be Illegal!
The recent selection of a route alignment for the Westside Subway Extension, as well as the release of the Wilshire Boulevard Bus Rapid Transit final environmental impact report started us thinking about something we read aways back regarding Wilshire Boulevard.…
2010 Transportation Ballot Measures: An Examination Of Key Trends And Results
Election Day has come and gone. Yesterday, our daily Transportation Headlines highlighted the Center For Transportation Excellence‘s state-by-state results of all transportation ballot measures in 2010. 43 of 56 measures passed: a 77% success rate. But what does it mean…