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Big Three Are Back in DC, Asking for Help and Promising to Restructure (NPR, NYT) Regulators Who Denied Climate Change Science Helped Make Detroit Less Competitive (Grist) Metrolink Crash Update: Maybe It Was the Red Light’s Fault (LA Now) Cop Charged for Assaulting Pedestrian in Fit of Road Rage on Queens Boulevard (NYT) Biden Talks … Continued

By Damien Newton

8:35 AM PST on December 3, 2008

Big Three Are Back in DC, Asking for Help and Promising to Restructure (NPR, NYT)
Regulators Who Denied Climate Change Science Helped Make Detroit Less Competitive (Grist)
Metrolink Crash Update: Maybe It Was the Red Light’s Fault (LA Now)
Cop Charged for Assaulting Pedestrian in Fit of Road Rage on Queens Boulevard (NYT)
Biden Talks Up Rail Investment at Governors’ Meeting (Yglesias)
Greuel Wants All Businesses to Offer Transit Passes (LA Now)
Hawaii Moves to Implement Electric Car Network (NYT)
Can a Wal-Mart Be Reclaimed By Going Mixed-Use? (Where via Streetsblog.net)
Bye-Bye Bottleneck Blog

Damien Newton

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