The new NEVs

Better than a golf cart:
http://www.ev.com/ev-com-guides/ev-cars/neighborhood-electric-vehicles/gm-and-segway-puma-photo-gallery.html

reference

Websites for information:
http://www.rita.dot.gov
http://www.aar.com
http://fastlane.dot.gov

hurray for the obvious

Here is another surprise report, well; not a surprise at all. At least this article has support documentation that validates the non-sustainability of automobile oriented design to our Western culture.

http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/2010/08/15/commuting-is-very-bad-for-you/

Villaraigosa

Like this was hard to predict:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_bicycling_in_la

transportation and land use

A societal change of our car culture can only be accomplished with a viable alternative to the automobile. A change enacted by bureaucratic procedure runs counter to the government juggernaut. The procedure of the governmental planning is to maintain the status-quo.

The only known possibilities of automobile alternatives within the system of traditional transportation planning is to re-implement the old technologies. This includes 150 year old technology of rail travel with trains, trolleys and streetcars. These are wonderful examples of man's ingenuity and entrepreneurial fortitude; in the 1800s.

It is time to realize this is 2010 and move past the mobility options of the past. To even discuss implementation of archaic transportation technology is a vivid example and statement to the foolishness, greed and corruption of politics. Land use follows mobility access. Major urban growth decisions regarding transportation made by political favors and paybacks reveals a broken system.

transit options

The product of a transportation system built by politicians is a network connected by favors instead of a system built to serve the populace who's money is spent.

An update of the CA HSR:
http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/08/01/2025627/investors-shy-from-california.html

LA Mayor

When affected by personal events, politicians are confronted by reality. The phony speeches about trendy subjects that tickle people’s ears and raise campaign coffers actually create a realism of changed attitudes when those in a governmental position of power are pushed by personal motivation.

Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, had a revelation that Los Angeles is designed for cars. Last Saturday Mayor Villaraigosa took a bike ride to the beach. While he was riding in the bike lane on Venice Boulevard, a taxi pulled out in front of him. The Mayor swerved, fell off the bike and broke his elbow.

Will this lead to sweeping change to motorist’s laws regarding bicycle safety?