Today’s Headlines
720 Is the Place to Be (Living Without a Car) Expensive Gas=Full Bike Racks (LAist) Did Gas Prices Reduce Father’s Day Crowd? (Bottleneck Blog) Support for Gas Tax Drops with Price Hikes (Mercury News) Assembly Panel Votes to Extend 91 Express Toll Lanes (PE) Segway Sales at All-Time High (Engadget) Teen Dies When Car Plunges … Continued
7:40 AM PDT on June 17, 2008
- 720 Is the Place to Be (Living Without a Car)
- Expensive Gas=Full Bike Racks (LAist)
- Did Gas Prices Reduce Father’s Day Crowd? (Bottleneck Blog)
- Support for Gas Tax Drops with Price Hikes (Mercury News)
- Assembly Panel Votes to Extend 91 Express Toll Lanes (PE)
- Segway Sales at All-Time High (Engadget)
- Teen Dies When Car Plunges 500 Feet (Times)
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