Today’s Headlines
No Drugs or Alcohol in Chatsworth Train Engineer’s Blood (Times) Obama Stimulus Package Starting to Take Shape (NYT) First Two Measure R Projects on the Way (LA Visions) Metro Blowing It When It Comes to TOD (Soap Box LA) LA’s Billboard Policy Is Pretty Bad, But Enforcement is Worse (CityWatch) UAW Offers Concessions to Keep … Continued
8:19 AM PST on December 4, 2008
- No Drugs or Alcohol in Chatsworth Train Engineer’s Blood (Times)
- Obama Stimulus Package Starting to Take Shape (NYT)
- First Two Measure R Projects on the Way (LA Visions)
- Metro Blowing It When It Comes to TOD (Soap Box LA)
- LA’s Billboard Policy Is Pretty Bad, But Enforcement is Worse (CityWatch)
- UAW Offers Concessions to Keep Big Three Afloat (NYT)
- Carmakers Promise Congress They’ll Boost Fuel Efficiency (Grist, City Fix)
- Americans Want More Transit-Oriented Places to Live (GGW via Streetsblog.net)
- Anti-Transit Forces Are in Retreat (Overhead Wire)
- 7-Year Old Injured in Hit and Run (Times)
- Homeless Man Killed by Hit and Run on PCH (LAist)
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