Today’s Headlines
A Plea for LADOT to Work with Neighborhood Councils on Speed Limits (CityWatch) A Look at City Density Maps and What They Say About Transportation (Curbed, Bottleneck Blog) Complaints Abound About SoCo Walk Mixed-Use Project (Times) Review of Sustainable LA (Bus Bench) Sales Tax Obstacles (Take the Metro) Seattle-LA AMTRAK Service Growing (BizWire)l Biden VP … Continued
7:55 AM PDT on August 19, 2008
- A Plea for LADOT to Work with Neighborhood Councils on Speed Limits (CityWatch)
- A Look at City Density Maps and What They Say About Transportation (Curbed, Bottleneck Blog)
- Complaints Abound About SoCo Walk Mixed-Use Project (Times)
- Review of Sustainable LA (Bus Bench)
- Sales Tax Obstacles (Take the Metro)
- Seattle-LA AMTRAK Service Growing (BizWire)l
- Biden VP Pick Would Put Rail Advocate on Dem Ticket (Yglesias)
- Contrasts Between Obama and McCain on Surface Transportation (Citiwire)
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