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The city will introduce an off-street learning area for new cyclists.
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!"
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!"
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.
With $5 gas, public transit's time has come. But some potential riders will find that the experience lacks an essential value.
The vehicle is superior to previous models - using a careful mixture of compressed air, foam solution and water to generate a firefighting agent that uses less water.
"We can connect this thing," says Governor Jerry Brown, fighting off "train to nowhere" criticisms. "It's going to be a lot cheaper than people are saying."
The regional connector is a big deal, but Metro's rail network has all the limitations of the history it's recreating.
The desert route would be a few minutes longer, but would put two more million people on board each year.
Can our ports co-exist with environmental justice for harbor-area residents?
A U.S. House committee hearing about a high-speed train system between Los Angeles and San Francisco had opponents talking in circles for four hours on Thursday.
Up to two-thirds of voters would change their support for California's high-speed rail system, according to a Field Poll released Tuesday.
The most requested on-board feature has arrived on three Amtrak routes in California.
The harbor pilots of the Port of Los Angeles earn some of the city's highest wages. And shippers say that's too much.
"I've chosen public transportation and my own two feet as my preferred means of navigating the city."
A federal agency has approved plans for DesertXpress to use over 800 acres of public land for high-speed train track.
The city's transportation planners have a daunting goal and they want your help.
On a trip from sell-scape to culture-scape.
Plans for the high-speed rail system was endangered after the House approved a spending bill, eliminating federal high-speed rail funding for fiscal year 2012.
Two other California airports are among the least busy.
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