Passenger Transportation

$9 Billion California High Speed Rail Route: The Planning is So Inept That it's Souring Residents from North to South

California bullet train: little rooting for the route​Investigative reporter Tracy Wood writes today about the inept, cloaked, and somewhat creepy PR strategy followed by the California High Speed Rail engineers and Parsons Brinckerhoff, who have not followed basic transparency and outreach ru ... More >>

Officials To Consider Four High Speed Rail Stations In The Valley

​According to the Burbank Leader, officials are set to meet next week to hear reports on possible high-speed rail locations in the San Fernando Valley. California's planned 800-mile high-speed rail system will include one station in the Valley. Representatives of the California High-Speed R ... More >>

Does Rail Have a Future?

L.A. Unemployment Headed Upwards

George Segal Sculpture & LAPL Photo ​​Just when you thought the L.A. Economic Development Corp. had delivered all the bad news we needed to hear about the local economy, now the Chamber of Commerce is weighing in with yet another buzzkill. A study produced for the chamber by Beacon Economics ... More >>

MTA Orders More Handicapped Training After Channel 7 Report

Metropolitan Transit Authority workers are about to receive more training on how to handle handicapped bus riders -- some of whom had been thrown out of improperly secured wheelchairs during sudden traffic stops. The MTA action taken Thursday came in response to a two-month ABC Channel 7 undercov ... More >>

Getting to the Getty: Parking Goes Up to $15

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Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

CalTrans Slammed in Flintridge Crash Laura Olhasso, the mayor of La Canada Flintridge, claimed that CalTrans has ignored her town's concerns about runaway trucks on Angeles Crest Highway. A big rig killed two people and injured 12 Wednesday when its driver lost control and struck several vehicles be ... More >>

Is N.Y. Times' 'Freaknomics' Falling in Love With L.A.?

Talk about your truth and reconciliation commissions -- South Africa's have had nothing on the New York Times, lately. Or at least, that paper's Freakonomics blog, which has been running a six-part series written by UCLA's Eric A. Morris, alluringly called "Los Angeles Transportation Facts and Ficti ... More >>

County's Public Transportation Will Survive State Budget Cuts

Now that the dust from California's epic budget battle is starting to settle, Curbed L.A. has done some quick analysis and found that despite the seeming loss of $136 million in operating funds, L.A.'s transit system will not be as hard hit as first thought. That's partly because of anticipated mone ... More >>

JetBlue Comes to LAX

Cheap, friendly and nonstop. Did we mention cheap? Those qualities have endeared JetBlue to Los Angeles travelers ever since the airline began flights out of Long Beach in the 1990s. Starting June 17, JetBlue is finally coming to LAX, from where it will fly two flight daily to Boston's Logan Interna ... More >>

Two Trains Running -- Or Maybe Not

MTA Headquarters: Have the deciders decided?Photo: Dave Parker/WikipediaDamien Goodmon, South L.A.'s indefatigable public transportation activist, is sounding an alarm about the possible shelving of rail projects in his heavily African American community. Goodmon's group, the Citizens' Campaign to F ... More >>

Weiss' 25 Best Non Hip-Hop Songs of 2008 (A-L)

Graffiti originally spotted on Bedford Ave., Williamsburg in 2002--soon followed by copycat crimes on Silverlake Blvd. and San Francisco's Mission District. Now playing at a Hot Topic near you. For spread-the-wealth reasons, this list was restricted to songs from albums that did not make the Top ... More >>

Coalition of Whatever

Bizarre outcomes in California bond measures, social issues, taxes. Mystery voters have their say.

Visions of Obamaland

I couldn’t help but think that what happened in the row in front of me was one of those amazing moments when you see the present moving into, and helping create, the future.

Oh, That Chickenshit MTA

No one on the governing board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority had the courage to tell it like it is to the warring factions that showed up Thursday to push their pet transit projects. The message to the people who want to extend the Gold Line to mars, via Ontario airport, would have go ... More >>

Villaraigosa blames LA traffic on George Bush

You can tell it's going to be The Silly Season in Los Angeles, from now to November, when Antonio Villaraigosa, whose growth-at-any-cost development beliefs have added tens of thousands of crowded new apartments to this overbuilt city, blames L.A.'s attention-getting traffic on the War in Iraq. Yep ... More >>

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Human Tracks

Forgotten bones dug up by Gold Line project in Boyle Heights

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Sickness and Subways

Time to treat the county's health disaster as a national issue

Boarding Games

People-watching at LAX security checkpoints

Next Time, They Might Be Women

Welcome to El Al

Year-end Scorecard

Two good changes, one sick business-as-usual mess down at Civic Center

Expatriate 2000

Lowest one-way air fares from LAX, November 8, 2000, 12 a.m. PST

The Workers Walk

And belatedly, county officials realize they probably should try to negotiate a settlement

Coming Alive

The City Council figures out its new role

Cattle Call

The Race to Succeed Richard Riordan -- and to Shape the Future of Los Angeles -- Has Already Begun

Farewell but Not Good Riddance

Civic Center crawls on its belly for the crookedest councilman of the decade

Los Dos Richards

Does Alatorre have a future?

Out With the Old

Riordan makes good on vow to topple incumbents

The Grand Finale?

The City Council lines up behind the new charter — but that doesn’t mean it has to like it

Let the Sunshine In

Wachs pushes to end city secrecy

Letters

1997 Timeline

Dig No More

But is this anyway to kill a subway?

Letters

...Some MTA officials have had the audacity to refer to the new coaches as "clean diesel." There is no such thing as "clean diesel," only dirty diesel and less dirty diesel. Both produce cancer-causing emissions...

Clean Air Takes Back Seat

Make Like a Tree

Riordan’s Funny Bone

Upgrades on the Gravy Train

We got laws for jokers like these

Truth Has Consequences at the MTA

Top cop blows Earnest case, bids for good press anyway

Gridlock

A Weekly roundtable discussion on the future of transportation in Los Angeles (that is, on the future of Los Angeles)

Cracked Elvis

Checchi on the Cheap

Limited Access

Ramps and attitudes need fixing on L.A. public transit