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Transportation:
Caltrans announced today it has put in place ways to warn desert travelers of such massive traffic jams like the catastrophic February 12, 2012 backup.
Where We Are:
As cars and trucks become more fuel efficient and more all electric and hybrid vehicles take to the road, states are seeing gas tax revenues shrink.
LA as Subject:
These train depots, long since vanished, provided tourists' and emigrants' first introduction to Los Angeles, helping shape their ideas about the city.
Where We Are:
Californians buy one out of every ten new cars sold in America. Southern Californians buy most of those.The L.A. Auto Show has been packing them in since 1907 to show what their future on wheels will be.
LA as Subject:
A vital link between Los Angeles and points north, the winding Ridge Route traced historical routes through the mountains.
Where We Are:
Mobility's future in a denser city means more walking, but LA's streets, by some measures, are among the most dangerous in the nation for pedestrians.
Where We Are:
Buckling sidewalks, decomposing streets, leaking water mains, and failing sewers add up to a city that's lost focus and is losing the faith of its residents.
Where We Are:
You can still get to the pier in Seal Beach by bus, but it's going to be whole lot harder for riders. The reasons reveal how difficult it is to be "transit oriented."
Where We Are:
A streetcar called Broadway may be the desire of Councilman Huizar, but downtown's loft dwellers will decide.
LA as Subject:
The transportation hub has hardly stood still since it emerged from the bean fields of Westchester in the late 1920s.
Transportation:
It's a first for California cities, but others like San Francisco and Los Angeles are not far behind.
Where We Are:
Does urbanizing L.A. face the "Tragedy of the Commons" when users share a limited transportation resource?
Where We Are:
There is no better place to read than in one of the wide, deep, comforting chairs in the waiting room of Union Station.
Where We Are:
In the competition for transit funding, inequalities, windfalls, and politics.
Environment:
San Luis Obispo is joining a growing number of cities that are taking green paint to pavement to make space for cyclists.
Transportation:
The city will introduce an off-street learning area for new cyclists.
Guest Commentary :
Meet two Angelenos -- a Bus Riders Union employee and an actor -- who survive Los Angeles without a car.
People ask me all the time how I survive, and insist that I will "die" without a car. And to them I say, "Meet two of my Asian Americans friends who don't even have driver licenses!"
Guest Commentary :
People ask me all the time how I survive, and insist that I will "die" without a car. And to them I say, "Meet two of my Asian Americans friends who don't even have driver licenses!"
Commentary:
A team of engineers developed a process in which the manure and other organic waste is heated in the absence of oxygen, creating a gas that can be burned as fuel. An engine burns that fuel and charges a set of batteries, which then provide power through an electric motor.
Where We Are:
With $5 gas, public transit's time has come. But some potential riders will find that the experience lacks an essential value.
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I Am Los Angeles: On His Way Back
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