Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Trains

Newsflash! Westsiders Want Rail (and Bikes)

By Damien Newton | Mar 23, 2009 | 3 Comments

Photos via LA Indy Media A new organization calling themselves "West LA for Change" debuted itself to thousands of drivers on the 405 by unrolling a 100 foot sign calling for a speeded up time table for the Subway to the Sea and Phase II of the Expo Line. The group doesn’t seem to limit […]

Holidays with the Sustainable Transportation Advocates

By Damien Newton | Dec 15, 2008 | 1 Comment

Will Campbell-Claus Delivers Toys at Midnight Then Ridazz in Training Collect Toys in Pasadena Both C.I.C.L.E. and the Midnight Ridazz held and completed their respective charity toy rides this weekend. On the Ridazz front, a few stolen bikes couldn’t stamp out the festivities as literally hundreds of toys were delivered to the Alliance for Children’s […]

Sprawlsville Steps Back From the Edge

By Ben Fried | Dec 12, 2008 | 2 Comments

A section of Tysons Corner slated for infill development. Image: Fairfax County/PB PlaceMaking [PDF] Last week the Federal Transit Administration finally approved the Silver Line, a long-awaited addition to the capital region’s transit system that will extend to suburbs in northern Virginia. There are still a few hoops to jump through to secure the necessary […]

San Francisco Breaks Ground on Transit Mega-Center

By Matthew Roth | Dec 11, 2008 | 2 Comments

A rendering of the Transbay Transit Center with a 5.4 acre park on its roof. At a groundbreaking ceremony for the long-awaited Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco yesterday, Mayor Gavin Newsom asserted the project will be "so much more extraordinary than Grand Central Station." Pointing to the renderings on a projection screen behind him, […]

Trains Under Baghdad

By Ben Fried | Nov 26, 2008 | 2 Comments

Via Transport Politic, some encouraging transit news from Iraq, where the mayor of Baghdad recently announced plans to move ahead with the city’s first subway lines. The Guardian reports: One of the new proposed subway lines would run 11 miles from Shia-dominated Sadr City in the east to Adhamiya in north Baghdad. The other would […]