Blogosphere: US Officials Seeking to Hop On LA Plan
Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Washington - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's bid to secure federal funds for fast-track expansion of the Los Angeles region's transit system is gaining support from Washington officials who say it could serve as a national model for speeding economic recovery and reducing pollution and traffic congestion....
(March 29, 2010)
Quote of the Day
Wall Street Journal
"It's questionable whether the agricultural land that's in the Bay Area can remain,"
(March 12, 2010)
Blogosphere: Could LA Gambit Help Other Cities?
We reported last night on the glacial pace of discussions yesterday at the Hillsborough County Commission on the proposed one cent sales tax referendum for transit. It came on the same day as our big feature in the current edition of CL on the battle for light rail was published....
(March 12, 2010)
Quote of the Day
Washington Post
"They laughed," says Villaraigosa. "They said they didn't have a program that could do this."
(March 11, 2010)
San Jose: Milpitas Votes Stop Location, Development
San Jose Mercury News
City officials last week supported Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority's vision of greater development at Milpitas' future Bay Area Rapid Transit station site at the southeast corner of Capitol Avenue and Montague Expressway...
(March 11, 2010)
Quote of the Day
Los Angeles Times
"The only option they presented to us was either losing the condo units or losing our train station,"
(March 10, 2010)
Los Angeles: Near Freeway TOD, Black Lungs
Los Angeles Weekly
On a recent afternoon in the Eastside neighborhood of Lincoln Heights, Fay Green stands in the hallway of her apartment complex, which sits just feet above the bumper-to-bumper traffic of the I-5 freeway....
(March 8, 2010)
National: Do Enviro Regs Hurt Economy?
Governing Magazine
Here in California, we are in the middle of not just a recession, but also one of the deepest and most disturbing crises in government finance since the Great Depression. Our state spending is chronically 20 percent above our state revenue...
(March 8, 2010)
Oakland: Resident Growth vs Industrial Preservation
Wall Street Journal
Meanwhile, across the bay, Oakland's doing a bit of soul-searching on downtrodden West Oakland, and thinks it may want to revitalize the area as a clean-tech and manufacturing/industrial hub....
(March 5, 2010)
Blogosphere: The Great TOD Swindle
Fog City Journal
Over the past ten years, The San Francisco Department of City Planning has rezoned much of the east side of San Francisco for greater densities of market rate housing based on the theory of Transit Oriented Development:...
(March 5, 2010)
