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Transportation Funding

November 2009
Wed 11: Chrysler: Taking Taxpayer Money and Running Away From Cleaner Cars 2
October 2009
Thu 22: Metro Board Passes Long Range Transportation Plan 21
Wed 14: In Kafka’s Castle: TDM in Action 6
Mon 5: Congress’ Transport Impasse Hits States — and Not Just Their Road Funds 2
August 2009
Tue 18: Transit Cuts Report Underscores Cities’ Congressional Influence Gap 0
Tue 11: Senate’s New DOT Spending Bill Eases One Transit Funding Barrier 1
July 2009
Mon 13: Transit Outsourcing Booms — But Are There Safety Trade-offs? 7
Wed 1: Court Orders California to Stop Robbing Transit (Updated) 4
June 2009
Mon 29: Calpirg, Smart Growth America Slam State Stimulus Spending 6
Fri 26: The Wall Street Tax Shelter That Crashed Your Local Transit Agency 8
Tue 16: Report: Nation’s Cities Getting Stiffed on Stimulus 0
Fri 12: Congress Agrees to Keep Transit Operating Aid in War Bill 0
Tue 2: Bush Transpo Secretary’s Biggest Disappointment: Bush 1
May 2009
Thu 28: Metro Sort of Passes Budget, Punts on Ansaldo Breda, Insults Public 21
Wed 27: Why Buy More Trains If You Can’t Afford to Run Them? 0
Tue 19: Illinois Congressman Pushes For Pro-Bike Transportation Bill 0
Tue 19: Congress Reluctant to Shine Light on Transportation Earmarks 0
Mon 18: LADOT Proposes Eliminating Its Bikeways Department 23
Fri 15: Governor Finds a New Way to Rob Transit Even More 11
Wed 13: A Federal Transportation Bill is Coming… But When? 0
Mon 11: Boxer: Collect Fees on Driving Through ‘Honor System’ 4
Fri 8: City Council Celebrates Bike to Work with Bike-Themed Meeting 4
April 2009
Mon 6: Freakonomics Ponders the Freeloading Cyclist 7
March 2009
Tue 31: California is Setting the Stage for a Tax on Vehicle Miles Traveled 9
Mon 30: Back to the Grid, Part 2: John Norquist on Reclaiming American Cities 0
Tue 24: Gov. Talks Transportation Financing and Expansion on Meet the Press 1
February 2009
Thu 26: Metro (Sort Of) Decides on Its Stimulus List 6
Fri 20: Advocates Launch Effort to Restore State Transit Funding 9
Thu 19: Final CA Budget Cuts Gas Tax Increase, Still Nothing for Transit 11
Tue 17: What Metro and Its Riders Will Lose in State Budget "Deal" 16
Fri 13: Tonight: PBS on Transit, States, and the Stimulus 2
Fri 13: Cal Transit Association on State Budget: Armageddon Is Here 12
Thu 12: Final Stimulus Bill Slaps Transit Riders in the Face 16
Thu 12: State Budget: Higher Fees Won't Lead to Better Transportation 2
Wed 11: Waxman on Stimulus Conference Committee, Call Now 2
Tue 10: Senate Approves Stimulus Bill — On to Conference Committee 0
Fri 6: Senator Jim DeMint Wants to Eliminate Bike Stim Funds: Take Action! 2
Tue 3: Will Senator Boxer Give in to Global-Warming-a-Hoax Inhofe on Stimulus? 2
January 2009
Thu 29: Obama Stimulus Leaves Bus Riders By the Side of The Road 0
Wed 28: Nadler Amendment: The Ayes Have It 4
Wed 28: Call This Morning to Secure More Transit Money in Stimulus 0
Tue 27: Call Now for a Better Transit Stimulus 3
Tue 27: Metro Proposes More Changes to Bus Routes and Schedules 11
Wed 21: Did Team Obama Gut Transit Funds From the Stimulus Package? 0
Thu 15: Dems Release Stimulus Draft: $30B for Highways, $10B for Transit 0
Mon 12: LA Times: State Should Act to Save Transit Funding 3
Thu 8: Tell Congress: Don’t Waste Money on Highway Expansion 1
Wed 7: Measure R Highway Funds Ready to Roll. Transit Funds? Not So Much. 46
Tue 6: Write Governor, Legislature to Stop Raid on Transit Funds 1
December 2008
Mon 22: Tell the Mayor That You Want Better Transportation 5
Mon 15: Stimulus Package on Track to Perpetuate Transpo Status Quo 0
Thu 11: San Francisco Breaks Ground on Transit Mega-Center 2
Tue 9: City Making Its List for Obama Stimulus 6
Thu 4: Uncertainty About Federal and State Funds Tempers Measure R Enthusiasm 9
Tue 2: Tell the Highway Lobby About '09 Transpo Spending 0
November 2008
Thu 20: T 4 America Interviews Denny Zane on Measure R and LA's Future 1
Thu 6: With Election Over, It's Time To Focus on Federal Transportation Policy 5
October 2008
Thu 30: Texas Governor Rick Perry Celebrates 18 Lanes of “Freedom” 0
September 2008
Fri 19: Could State Budget Cuts Derail Late Night Train Service? 3
Thu 18: Governor's Veto of State Budget a Good or Bad Thing? 1
Wed 17: California's Senators Want Better Signals for Rail Safety 0
Thu 11: Gasoline Has Changed LA, But Will It Change Back? 5
Thu 4: Feuer's Office Confident that Governor Will Sign A.B. 2321 2
August 2008
Fri 29: San Gabriel Members of Congress Still Clamoring for Gold Line Extension 2
Wed 27: Good News for Metro? Most Americans Want More Transit Investment 1
Tue 26: Judge Rules Against BRU and NRDC. Fare Hikes Don't Require EIS. 2
Mon 25: Rushed as Usual, A.B. 2321 Faces "Do or Die" Week 0
Wed 20: Study: OC Taxes More Regressive Than Tolls 3
Thu 14: Today's Headlines 4
Wed 13: Senate Committee Passes Ammended Sales Tax Measure 3
Tue 12: Cartoon Tuesday: In Which We Blog About the Other Paris 0
Tue 12: Supervisors Put Sales Tax on Regular Ballot, But Get Their Shots In 0
Thu 7: Senate Still Holding Sales Tax Bill. Board of Supervisors Will Vote on it Again. 4
Wed 6: Times Editorial Shows Who's Holding up the Sales Tax in Sacramento 2
Tue 5: LA County Board of Supervisors Passes Their Confusion on to Voters 12
Tue 5: Hillary Clinton Introduces Senate Version of Transit Relief Bill 0
Tue 5: Former Metro Board Chair Takes Your Questions This Weekend 0
Mon 4: 10 Hours Later, Senate Committee Tables Sales Tax Proposal 5
Fri 1: Reasons Why You Should Vote for Metro's Sales Tax 16
July 2008
Thu 31: House Bill Makes Connection Between Transit Funding and Gas Price Relief 0
Thu 31: BRU 'Blowsback' at Metro's Sales Tax Proposal 27
Tue 29: The U.S. Wants to "Borrow" From Transit to Pay for Highways 2
Fri 25: $36,000,000,000 for Corn. $0 for Transit. 1
Thu 24: Metro Board Passes Sales Tax Proposal 37
Wed 23: Counting Down to Tomorrow's Metro Board Meeting 1
Wed 23: Get Your Signatures in for Bike-Ped Letter to Metro Board 19
Fri 18: City Council Endorses Sales Tax Plan 3
Thu 17: Board Chair Villaraigosa Responds to Bike/Ped. Funding Requests 5
Wed 16: Damn the Gas Prices, Full Road Widenings Ahead 9
Tue 15: Politicians Threaten High Speed Rail Ballot Proposal 7
Mon 14: Bike/Ped. Advocates Want Your Help To Get More Funds From Metro 14
Fri 11: Times Editorial Blasts Molina Over Sales Tax Obstructionism 0
Tue 1: Maryland Senator Ben Cardin: America Needs Transit, Now 6
Tue 1: Metro’s $40 Billion Plan 29
June 2008
Tue 24: Metro: Sales Tax Proposal Has Overwhelming Support 11
Wed 18: Bill Seeking to Reduce VMT Moves Through State Senate 1
Fri 13: Metro Makes the Case for Half-Cent Sales Tax Increase 26
Tue 10: Westsiders Vent at Last Night's Expo Meeting 10
Fri 6: Republicans Stop Feuer’s Efforts to Lower Sales Tax Threshold 2
Thu 5: Schwarzenegger "Peppered" with Questions about Vehicle Licenses 2
May 2008
Wed 28: Feuer’s Greenhouse Gas Tax Bill Passes Assembly 3
Fri 23: Urge Congress to Support Amtrak and Passenger Rail 4
Tue 20: Get Involved with Half Cent Sales Tax Project List 7
Thu 8: Metro's Plans for 2009: No Fare Hike, Completed Gold Line 1
Thu 8: Delaware Senator Dares to Utter the Word "Transit" 0
Mon 5: Sign the Petition at GasTaxScam.com 1
Mon 5: Sneak Peak at Subway to the Sea Alternatives (Updated) 20
Fri 2: How Much Would You Actually Save With a Gas Tax "Holiday"? 1
April 2008
Wed 30: Fix Expo: We’re Going to Court 5
Thu 24: Metro Rejects Service Cuts, Approves Congestion Pricing and Much, Much More 6
Thu 24: Today, Metro Talks Cuts. Tomorrow, Metrolink Talks Hikes 3
Thu 24: Desert Dispatch Letter Defends SUV's and Attacks Carbon Fees 9
Fri 18: Paper: We Love Our Cars! Defeat the Climate Change Bills! 9
Thu 17: Legislators Pushing for Green Line Extension to LAX 2
Tue 15: Mayor's State of LA Not Just About Gangbangers 2
Mon 14: Feuer’s Sales Tax and Climate Change Bills Pass Committee 2
Fri 11: Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez Calls for Snoble to Resign 4
Thu 10: Metro Wants Developers to Pay Congestion Mitigation Fee 2
Tue 8: The City Council’s 25 Ways to Improve Transportation 2
Tue 8: Desert Dispatch and OC Register Add to Anti-Feuer Editorials 5
Mon 7: Daily Breeze Joins the Anti-Feuer Editorial Movement 10
Mon 7: Papers Ganging Up on Feuer Legislation 0
Thu 3: Investor’s Magazine: Hooray for Highways! Boo for Gas Taxes! 5
Wed 2: City Council Backtracks on Free Parking for Hybrids 4
March 2008
Mon 31: Feuer's Funding Bills Head to Hearings Next Week (Updated) 2
Fri 28: March Madness: Bruins, O’Connor Both Win During TV Showdown 1
Thu 27: WeHo to Metro: We Want Subways 14
Tue 25: Metro Takes to the Airwaves to Tout LRTP 0
Thu 20: LADOT Questions Metro's Bus Cuts 5
Tue 18: Blogs Are Buzzing on Metro's Long Range Plan 3
Mon 17: Metrolink Next Up for Fare Hikes 6
Thu 13: Westside Rejects Some Service Cuts 1
Wed 12: A First Look at Metro’s Long Term Transportation Plan 15
Wed 5: State Avoids Blame As Metro Prepares Service Cuts 1
February 2008
Thu 28: Turnstiles Needed to Protect Us From Terrorists 14
Thu 28: Alarcón to Metro: I Don't Trust You Guys 2
Fri 8: Bush Budget "Bad for Transit" 0
Thu 7: Sector Board Also Against Service Cuts 2
Thu 7: San Fernando Valley Service Cuts Hearing Report 1
Wed 6: Expo Board Talking Dorsey High Tomorrow 2
January 2008
Fri 25: Feds Cut Light Rail Language from STC Report 2
Thu 24: Turnstile Plan Delayed 5
Thu 17: Metro Considers Raising "Senior Discount" Age to 65 1
Sat 12: Feuer Seeks To Help LA County Help Itself 0
Sat 12: Professor Donald Shoup: How About Congestion Parking? 2
Fri 11: Overview of "It's Time to Move LA" 0
Wed 9: State of the State: Here Come Public-Private Partnerships 0
Tue 8: Bad Idea of the Year: Taxing Cyclists by the Mile 1
Mon 7: SoCATA Backs Prop 91 0
Fri 4: Transportation Luminaries to Speak on Funding Crunch 2
December 2007
Thu 20: LADOT's Press Release on Downtown Fare Changes Probably Too Late to Control Blame 0
November 2007
Thu 29: Going to a Really Long Metro Board Meeting So You Don't Have To 6
Wed 28: City Council: Its Time To Think About Our Future Together 0
Mon 26: Times Claims Mayor's Affair Cost City $336 Million in Transportation Funds 0
Wed 21: Support the Bridges, End the War! 0
Wed 14: Update on Two Transit Fare Increases... 0
Thu 1: Reminder: Last Foothill Transit Fare Hike Meeting 0
October 2007
Wed 31: What are (aren't) our Senators doing about Transportation Funding 1
Tue 30: Our Friend, The Transportation Engineer 0
Thu 25: Councilman Bill Rosendahl...not an east coast politician... 0