Transportation Education & Advocacy Resources

Links to Organizations Concerned with Transportation

• Alliance for Community Transit Los Angeles http://allianceforcommunitytransit.org/
• Blue LA (electric vehicles, car sharing) https://www.bluela.com/
• Fight for the Soul of the Cities http://fightforthesoulofthecities.com/
• Fixing Angelenos Stuck in Traffic http://fastla.org/
• LA CoMotion https://www.lacomotion.com/
• LA Metro https://www.metro.net/
• MoveLA http://www.movela.org/
• Multicultural Communities for Mobility http://www.multicultimobility.org/
• Rail Users Network (RUN) http://www.railusers.net/
• Sierra Club Committee on Transportation and Sustainable Communities https://www.sierraclub.org/california/cnrcc/transportation-and-sustainable-communities
• Southern California Transit Advocates https://socata.net/
• UCLA Institute for Transportation https://www.its.ucla.edu/
• The Transit Coalition http://thetransitcoalition.us/index.htm
• Investing in Place https://investinginplace.org/
• LA County Bicycle Coalition https://la-bike.org/
• LA Metro On the Move Program https://www.metro.net/around/senior-tips/move-riders-club/
• RailPAC http://www.railpac.org/
• LA Streetsblo. https://la.streetsblog.org/
• TRAC (Train Riders Association of California)

Bookshelf

• Bottles, Scott L. Los Angeles and the Automobile. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991.
• Caro, Robert. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Rise and Fall of New York. New York: Vintage, 1975.
• Florida, Richard. The New Urban Crisis How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class and What We Can Do About It. New York: Basic Books, 2017.
• Fulton, William. The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles.  Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
• Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Vintage, 1992. [Reissue]
• Schwartz, Samuel. Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars. New York: Public Affairs Press, 2015.
• Speck, Jeff. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a time. New York: North Point Press, 2012.
• Walker, Jarrett. Human Transit: How clearer thinking about public transit can enrich our communities and our lives. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2011.