Web resources (Mostly transit)

Arlington County's great CommuterPage webresource has added a blog.

I came across a blog called Transit Miami, about transit in South Florida (mostly Miami--do they consider Ft. Lauderdale part of Miami these days?) It has an extensive set of transit links as well as non-transit Miami area links.

Portland Transport is a blog-website for the Portland Oregon area. Connected with this blog is flickr account from which I've blogged photos before. (It's the source of the photo of the under construction for DC Trio streetcar in the Ostrava Transit Shop in the Czech Republic.)

And DC's own Stop, Blog, and Roll, focusing on the Woodridge-Greater Brookland area, has an ever expanding set of links, not just for Ward 5, but for the city more generally.

I have been discussing the need for a pan-regional annual conference on transit advocacy. It turns out that there is one coming up in the Greater Toronto Area, the GTA Transit Summit, November 3 and 4. The conference is titled "Building a Network that Serves Riders."

There is the West Virginia Transportation Alliance, which we'll have to talk to, among others, in fostering discussion about Dan Malouff's vision of a regional railroad passenger transportation system.

And even though the State Legislature doesn't seem to be too concerned about the future of mobility in the State of Virginia, it turns out that there is an Annual Virginia Transportation Conference. It was held two weeks ago.

It definitely has a government and academic, rather than an advocacy, orientation, but it's something that needs to be scoped out.

In the same vein, Maryland's Department of Transportation does a road show around the state, discussing the agency's priorities for the next year, holding public meetings, and meeting with County governments. The PG County session was a couple weeks ago. Montgomery County's will be on November 2nd.

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