Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

CA Moves to Ban Texting While Driving (LAist, Times) Metro Investing $100,000 a Year in Lockers at Red and Orange Line Stations (Daily News) Big Blue Bus Rolls Out Rapid Lines (SM Lookout) Oil Prices Won’t Dip for Long (Gristmill, Times) Rep. Jackie Speier Proposes Lowering National Speed Limits (SF Chron via Planetizen) D.C.-Area Planners … Continued

By Damien Newton

7:57 AM PDT on August 22, 2008

CA Moves to Ban Texting While Driving (LAist, Times)
Metro Investing $100,000 a Year in Lockers at Red and Orange Line Stations (Daily News)
Big Blue Bus Rolls Out Rapid Lines (SM Lookout)
Oil Prices Won’t Dip for Long (Gristmill, Times)
Rep. Jackie Speier Proposes Lowering National Speed Limits (SF Chron via Planetizen)
D.C.-Area Planners Don’t Want Bike Path Next to Highway Through the Woods (WaPo)
Prodigious Bike Thief “Easily the Most Hated Man in Toronto” (NYT)
Portland Looks to Expand Streetcar Network Despite Lack of Support from Feds (Portland DJC)
Seattle’s Car-Free Sundays Start This Weekend (Seattle PI)
Vancouver Transit Agency Responds to Demand With Huge Service Increase (Vancouver Sun)

Damien Newton

Today's Headlines

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