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On July 9, 2012 in preparation for the building of West Los Angeles’ latest rail line, The Expo Line to Santa Monica, this 1920’s bridge was torn down on Motor Ave.
Caltrain = romance.
Man Surprises His Girlfriend With a Wedding Proposal on Caltrain
From Request to Rack
LADOT offers a free – and highly utilized – sidewalk bike rack request program that allows any business owner or citizen to request bicycle racks for commercial areas. Getting a shiny new bike rack in a place that you requested can be a fulfilling experience. Find out how your request goes from request to rack below the fold.
The more you know!
Glee partners with the DOT to bring you this distracted driving PSA!
Japanese man travels round the world on public transport
A 106-year-old man has become the oldest person to have traveled around the world using public transportation.
Progress Tracker – We pledged to end the 40 year deterioration of LA’s roads by re-doubling our efforts. Since 2005 we have increased pothole repairs by 150% and pavement preservation by 25%. There’s more work to be done but we’re taking important steps forward.
As the U.S. Presidential Election Begins in Earnest, a Study in Contrasts
On transportation, Mr. Ryan voted against every piece of transportation legislation proposed by Democrats when they controlled the lower chamber between 2007 and early 2010, with the exception of a bill subsidizing the automobile industry to the tune of $14 billion in loans in December 2008. This record included a vote against moving $8 billion into the highway trust fund in July 2008 (the overall vote was 387 to 37), a bill that was necessary to keep transportation funding at existing levels of investment. Meanwhile, he voted for a failed amendment that would have significantly cut back funding for Amtrak and voted against a widely popular bill that would expand grants for public transportation projects. He did vote in favor of the most recent transportation bill extension.
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Translation: All Department of Transportation programs that are not user-fee funded (like TIGER, high-speed rail, and perhaps even transit capital funding) would be eliminated. And ground transportation spending would be limited to revenues from fuel taxes, which he would not increase. Overall, DOT outlays would decline from $95 billion overall in 2011 to a low of $66 billion in 2016, rising to only $72 billion by 2020. As House Republicans showed with H.R. 7, their proposed transportation bill that would have eliminated the mass transit account of the highway trust fund and eliminated aid for bike and pedestrian projects, they are willing to sacrifice non-automobile transportation programs in favor of establishing a “targeted and cohesive” policy, which in this case appears to mean roads-only.
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