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SoCal Voices 3: Former Mets Transportation Engineer Marybeth Miceli Looks at Staples Center

By Damien Newton | Dec 31, 2007 | 2 Comments

Have a Very Transit New Year…Or At Least Try As the former transportation engineer for the NY Mets, I was in charge of traffic demand management, VMS, wayfinding, transit, remote parking, shuttles, and general coordination with the zillion different agencies involved with transportation around Shea Stadium and the new Citi Field currently under construction in […]

Update: for a shopping center with 3.8 million gross square feet of leasable area

By Damien Newton | Dec 18, 2007 | No Comments

For anyone working on comments for the Warner Center Mall, I got some sobering numbers for the amount of trips that will be generated by the addition to your local mega-mall. The following chart is from the ITE trip generation manual, for a shopping center with 3.8 million gross square feet of leasable area: Original […]

Santa Monica’s Transportation Plan Hopefully a Preview for LA

By Damien Newton | Dec 7, 2007 | No Comments

Last night I tried to go to a public meeting on Santa Monica’s Transportation and Land Use Plan. Sadly, whenever I get into a car to go to a meeting that’s not local, I don’t actually make the meeting because there’s a ton of congestion. Thanks to the Internet, all was not lost. A poke […]

City Council: Its Time To Think About Our Future Together

By Damien Newton | Nov 28, 2007 | No Comments

EDITED BELOW (10:11 PM) Earlier this morning, the Los Angeles City Council Transportation Committee met to help begin the process of creating a long-range transportation plan for the City. The meeting was held bright and early at 8:30 A.M., giving the council members a chance to hold a press conference outside city hall in time […]

Pedestrian Impressions 2: Walking Downtown

By Damien Newton | Nov 20, 2007 | 2 Comments

A couple of weeks back, I had a meeting in the Metro Building two hours after a meeting in the Downtown Library. I decided to walk to the Metro HQ and back. The route was roughly this, but I took off down side streets a lot. Following the map is another photo essay… Before I […]

Our Friend, The Transportation Engineer

By Damien Newton | Oct 30, 2007 | No Comments

I once read a book about the history of transportation engineers as the arch enemy of the transportation reformer. While it is true that the idea that we can build highways until congestion went away can be traced back to many of the top transportation engineers during the Eisenhower Presidency, but that was half a […]

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