Today’s Headlines

Tuesday

• LAPD Lets Buses, Other Cops, Run Red Lights (Bus Bench)
• Down to the Big Two in Detroit? GM and Chrysler May Merge (NYT)
• California Opens New Ethanol Plant (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Obama Stimulus Plan Would Double Loan Guarantees for Car Makers (NYT)
• Will Americans Stop Believing That Higher Gas Prices Are Here to Stay? (Time)
• NJ Turnpike Authority Votes to Raise Tolls (AP, MTR)

Weekend-Monday

• OCTA Ridership Still Soaring (OC Metro) 
• Are LA’s Parking Minimums Hurting the City? (Curbed) 
• Bus Bench‘s Simon For High Speed Rail and Measure R  
• Transit LA: Yes on Measure R 
• As Gas Prices Fall, Will Car Culture Rebound? (Daily News)

Friday

• LAPD’s War Against Non-Drivers Continues (Angelinic)
• Global Car Sales May ‘Collapse’ Next Year (Reuters) 
• What’s Not To Like About Metro’s “Congestion Pricing? (CityWatch)
• USC Prof.: SoCal Trains Unsafe and Underfunded (Times)
• Shares of Auto Makers Take Huge Hit (NYT)
• Exhurban Nation Predicts Measure R Will Fail
• Bike Commute Benefit Wasn’t Enough to Win Blumenauer’s Support for Bailout (NYT)

Thursday

• Times Backs Measure R
• Measure R or Massive Service Cuts? (MetroRider)
• Some Supervisors Still Mad About Measure R Mailer (RonKayeLA)
• Ports’ Clean Truck Initiative Running Smoothly (Journal of Commerce)
• Feinstein Testifies at Metrolink Hearing (Bottleneck Blog)
• McCain Took Time Last Week to Vote Against Amtrak, DC Metro (WaPo via Planetizen)
• In Buenos Aires, Using Bike Theft Rates as a Public Safety Metric (Reuters)
• Who’s Bucking the Bear Market? Bike Makers (TreeHugger)