Today’s Headlines
Battle Over Metro’s Sales Tax Already Hot (Bottleneck Blog) Good Reviews for Dodger Shuttle (Times, BlogDowntown, Militant Angeleno) Expo’s CPUC Hearing Moved to LA (City Watch) Businesses Hate Parking Meter Increae (Downtown News) This Walking Thing Is Pretty Cool! (Times) Streetsblog Favorite Tom Vanderbilt Writes on Traffic Safety and What Drivers Know (Times) Walkable Cities … Continued
7:47 AM PDT on July 28, 2008
- Battle Over Metro’s Sales Tax Already Hot (Bottleneck Blog)
- Good Reviews for Dodger Shuttle (Times, BlogDowntown, Militant Angeleno)
- Expo’s CPUC Hearing Moved to LA (City Watch)
- Businesses Hate Parking Meter Increae (Downtown News)
- This Walking Thing Is Pretty Cool! (Times)
- Streetsblog Favorite Tom Vanderbilt Writes on Traffic Safety and What Drivers Know (Times)
- Walkable Cities Are Fit Cities (TreeHugger)
- NYT Derides Drilling, Ethanol, Gas Tax Holidays, and Blaming Speculators
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