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Tuesday Job Market
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Looking to hire a smart, qualified person for a position in transportation planning, engineering, IT, or advocacy? Post a listing on the Streetsblog Jobs Board and reach our national audience of dedicated readers. Looking for a job? Here are this week’s listings: Program Officer – Country Support and Climate, Institute for Sustainable Communities, Montpelier, VT The Program […]
Thursday Jobs Market
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Looking to hire a smart, qualified person for a position in transportation planning, engineering, IT, or advocacy? Post a listing on the Streetsblog Jobs Board and reach our national audience of dedicated readers. Looking for a job? Here are this week’s listings: Graduate Research Fellow (Part-Time Internship), Transportation Alternatives, New York, NY We are seeking an organized […]
Programming Alert: LA Streetsblog Will Remain on Winter Hiatus Until January
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Dear LA Streetsblog readers, partners and friends, We all at LA Streetsblog hope everyone is having a happy and safe holiday season. Normally after Christmas you’d expect to see us resume our regular coverage and announce nominees for the 2012 Streetsie Awards, but we have decided to postpone returning to our regular streets-blogging until after […]
Comment of the Day: Doing the Math on Metro’s Turnstile Program
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Streetsblog doesn’t usually do a “comment of the day” post, but Erik Griswold decided to put his excellent cost/benefit analysis of Metro’s turnstile program in a comment thread for a story published before Thanksgiving. We wanted to make sure everyone saw it. Long time readers may remember that when Metro suggested adding turnstiles to stations […]
Monday Morning Job Market
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Looking to hire a smart, qualified person for a position in transportation planning, engineering, IT, or advocacy? Post a listing on the Streetsblog Jobs Board and reach our national audience of dedicated readers. Looking for a job? Here are this week’s listings: Director of Government Relations and Advocacy, Active Transportation Alliance, Chicago The Director of Government Relations […]
Streetsblog Jobs Market
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Looking to hire a smart, qualified person for a position in transportation planning, engineering, IT, or advocacy? Post a listing on the Streetsblog Jobs Board and reach our national audience of dedicated readers. Looking for a job? Here are this week’s listings: Transportation Engineer, Sam Schwartz Engineering, Chicago, IL Sam Schwartz Engineering is hiring a Transportation Engineer […]
Metro ExpressLanes and Carpooling: The Facts, the Benefits and More
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(Those of you that follow Streetsblog on Twitter may have noticed the ExpressLanes team at Metro were less than thrilled with our article on the concerns some have with the transponder requirement to access ExpressLanes. We invited them to write a response and Stephanie Wiggins, Executive Officer for the Congestion Reduction Demonstration Initiative, responded. – D) […]
Video: Damien, Metro’s Sotero, LAFD’s Mathis, and Times’ Bloomekatz Talk Carmageddon and the Rising Bike Movement
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This morning, the Los Angeles Times hosted Streetsblog’s Damien Newton, Metro Spokesman Dave Sotero and the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Alicia Mathis for a conversation about Carmageddon and the rising green transportation movement in Los Angeles. The talk was hosted by the Times’ transportation writer, Ari Bloomekatz. The video takes about a half hour, and […]
Westside Mobility Plan Community Workshop
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We want to hear from you regarding solutions for our region’s most congested area! The Westside Mobility Plan project team invites you to a community workshop to hear the latest updates on the project and to review and provide input on four mobility improvement packages developed from community ideas and recommendations received over the last […]
Westside Mobility Plan Community Workshop
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We want to hear from you regarding solutions for our region’s most congested area! The Westside Mobility Plan project team invites you to a community workshop to hear the latest updates on the project and to review and provide input on four mobility improvement packages developed from community ideas and recommendations received over the last […]
Westside Mobility Plan Community Workshop
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We want to hear from you regarding solutions for our region’s most congested area! The Westside Mobility Plan project team invites you to a community workshop to hear the latest updates on the project and to review and provide input on four mobility improvement packages developed from community ideas and recommendations received over the last […]
Gabbard Examines Pending CA Legislation That Would Reorganize Regional Rail Service
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Some 14 years after administration of the Amtrak Capitol Corridor intercity rail service was transferred from the state to a local association of transportation agencies along its corridor; two bills (Senate Bill 1225 and Assembly Bill 1779) have reached the Governor’s desk that would allow similar transfers for (respectively) the Southern California coastal Pacific Surfliner and […]