Today’s Headlines
Tuesday
8:01 AM PDT on October 14, 2008
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)
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