Today’s Headlines and Last Friday Around the Streetsblogs
Today's Headlines
8:44 AM PST on November 16, 2009
Today’s Headlines
- Story on Pedestrian Safety Includes LAPD Quote That Crosswalks Give Peds. a “False Sense of Security” (Sundial)
- Commuter Rail Suffering Because of Gov.’s Obsession with HSR (Times)
- Debate Over Subway Route “Wilshire or WeHo?” (Times)
- Pimp My Bus Ride (Time)
- Bus Service Getting Slashed in the O.C. (Register)
- How Much Money Did Michael Jackson Memorial Cost City, and When Are We Getting Reimbursed? (Daily News)
- Dutch Drivers Get Mileage Tax (Wired)
- L.A. Cyclists, Take This Survey (Street Heat)
Last Friday Around the Streetsblogs
- Hesitation and Praise Greet Obama’s Transit Safety Plan (DC)
- Portland’s Greenstreets Program a Sterling Best-Practices Model (SF)
- Senate Dems. Still Obsessed with Coal Burning Utilities (DC)
- Transit in Trouble Photo Gallery (DC)
- Cool Gallery of “No Parking” Signs (SF)
- Help Uncover the Truth about Traffic Violence (NYC)
More Headlines at DC Streetsblog. Links on yesterday’s festivities coming momentarily.
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