Today’s Headlines
Business Leaders Ready to Back Transportation Sales Tax? (Times) No Gas Price Relief in Sight (Daily News) Community Mourns Loss of Bus Shelter (Metro Rider) Parcel Tax for Alameda County Transit Heads to Ballot (Mercury News) Times’ Blog Looks at Era of Streetcar (Daily Mirror) Toronto Cyclists Form Riders Union (C.S. Monitor) Chicago Cyclist Doored, … Continued
7:34 AM PDT on June 12, 2008
- Business Leaders Ready to Back Transportation Sales Tax? (Times)
- No Gas Price Relief in Sight (Daily News)
- Community Mourns Loss of Bus Shelter (Metro Rider)
- Parcel Tax for Alameda County Transit Heads to Ballot (Mercury News)
- Times’ Blog Looks at Era of Streetcar (Daily Mirror)
- Toronto Cyclists Form Riders Union (C.S. Monitor)
- Chicago Cyclist Doored, Killed During Bike to Work Week (Sun-Times)
- Some “Conservatives” Still Morons When It Comes to Road v Transit (World Net Daily)
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