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Updated 3/12/07

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• L.A. Daily News   MTA bond plan 9/04
• MTA reports 2000   2001 Draft EIS excerpts   Friends 4 Expo DEIS response   L.A. City Council resolution 6/01  
• MTA   Bond plan 9/04   Design sketches (PDF, 2.1 MB)

Western U.S. Rail Transit Lines and Groups

• Dallas – DART  
• Denver   Transit Alliance
• Houston   
• Las Vegas Monorail   The Monorail Society
• Los Angeles MTA   Programs and Projects   Metrolink  
  Light Rail for Cheviot   Expo Line on Wikipedia
  Metro Gold Line - Foothill Extension   Metrolink
  Southern California Transit Advocates   SFV Transit Insider
  The Transit Coalition   Friends of the Green Line   Friends of the Red Line
  Sierra Club Angeles Chapter Transportation
• L.A. Harbor Red Cars
• Minnesota DOT – Hiawatha Light Rail   Minnesotans for Light Rail Transit
• Phoenix
• Portland MAX   Portland Streetcar   Rail & Real Estate – DJC
• Sacramento RT
• Salt Lake City – UTA TRAX
• San Diego Trolley  
• San Francisco – Muni   Rescue Muni   BART
• San Jose – VTA
• Seattle – Sound Transit   People for Modern Transit
• St. Louis   Citizens for Modern Transit
• Strasbourg (France)   Tramdev photos 1   2   Railway Technology photos

Organizations

• American Public Transit Association (APTA)
• California High-Speed Rail Authority
• California Transit Links
• Caltrans District 7 (L.A. County)
• Carfree Cities
• Center for Transportation Excellence
• la.transportation newsgroup
• Lesstraffic.com – David Engwicht
• LightRail.com
• Light Rail Now – Light Rail Progress
• Light Rail Transit Association
• Metro Magazine's Transit Center for public transport information
• Modern Transit Society
• The New Electric Railway Journal – Free Congress Foundation
• Odyssey (statewide transit rider group)
• Planning and Conservation League
• The Public Purpose – Wendall Cox (opponent)   Cox (down to "Invisible Handyman")
• PublicTransit.us
• Rail Passenger Association of California (RailPAC)
• Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
• Rail~Volution – Building Livable Communities with Transit
• Roadkill Bill – "The weekly comic that looks at cars, technology, ecology and philosophy from the viewpoint of a frequently squashed rodent"
• Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP)
• The Subway Page (many transit links)
• Train Riders Association of California (TRAC)
• Tramways.com
• TransitPeople (educational excursions for children using public transit)
• @LA Transportation and Transit in Southern California

Planning & Smart Growth

• American Planning Association
• Center for Livable Communities (Local Government Commission)
• City of Los Angeles Planning Department
• New Urban News
• Planetizen    The Planning Report    Metro Investment Report
• Reconnecting America
• San Diego Earth Times
• Sierra Club – Sprawl
• Smart Growth Network
• Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse
• Transportation and Land Use Collaborative
• Urban Land Institute
• Victoria Transport Policy Institute

Statistics

• APTA Statistics
• California Traffic Counts
• Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California
• Lightrail Costs 
• Metro current  ridership 
• NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System
• Texas Transportation Institute Urban Mobility Information
• U.S. Census 2000

History

• California Highways
• California Trolleys
• Electric Railway Historical Association of Los Angeles
• L.A. 1963 monorail proposal
• Pacific Electric tunnel – Elson Trinidad
• Pacific Electric 1947-9 – Jim Stubchaer
• Southern Pacific's Santa Monica Tunnel – 1898 movie clip
• Pacific Electric Railway Tours – Tom Wetzel

Busways and Curitiba

• Bus photos – Chaffee Yiu
• Electric transport in Latin America (including Curitiba, Brazil)
• Quito, Ecuador Trolleybus (English)   Map
• Transporte Coletivo (City of Curitiba – Portuguese)   Metro Elevado

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