Today’s Headlines
Villaraigosa Asks Business Leaders to Back Sales Tax (Times) Bike Girl Challenges LaBonge to Ride Cahuenga Pass with Her USC Professor Pushes Personal Rapid Transit (Times) LA Downtown News: Streetcar Plan Has Momentum Port, Truckers, Head to Court (Times) Why LA Won’t Get 80% Funding for Gold Line Extension (Overhead Wire) San Pedro News Hears … Continued
7:04 AM PDT on September 8, 2008
- Villaraigosa Asks Business Leaders to Back Sales Tax (Times)
- Bike Girl Challenges LaBonge to Ride Cahuenga Pass with Her
- USC Professor Pushes Personal Rapid Transit (Times)
- LA Downtown News: Streetcar Plan Has Momentum
- Port, Truckers, Head to Court (Times)
- Why LA Won’t Get 80% Funding for Gold Line Extension (Overhead Wire)
- San Pedro News Hears Crazy Rumor About Congestion Pricing on 110
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