Today’s Headlines
Gas Taxes Down, Bush Admin Wants to Borrow From Transit to Pay for Highways (NYT) City to State: Don’t Rob Local Aid (Contra Costa Times) Truckers Sue Ports Over Pollution Reduction Plan (Times) Tom Vanderbilt Gets Some National Attention (USA Today) MTA More Effective at Fighting Fast Food than LA City Council (LAist) 2008 Will … Continued
7:04 AM PDT on July 29, 2008
- Gas Taxes Down, Bush Admin Wants to Borrow From Transit to Pay for Highways (NYT)
- City to State: Don’t Rob Local Aid (Contra Costa Times)
- Truckers Sue Ports Over Pollution Reduction Plan (Times)
- Tom Vanderbilt Gets Some National Attention (USA Today)
- MTA More Effective at Fighting Fast Food than LA City Council (LAist)
- 2008 Will Likely be the First Annual Reduction in VMT Since 1980 (Bloomberg)
- Montebello Bus Raising Fares (SGV Tribune)
- On Summer Vacation, Density Opponents Go to Dense, Walkable Beach Communities (Next City)
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