Today’s Headlines
Auto Industry Faces Across-the-Board Dive in New Car Sales (NYT) While We Weren’t Paying Attention, Sacramento Passed New Driving Laws (Daily News) How about that Downtown DASH? (Blogdowntown) How about that New-Found Cab Culture? (Times) Caltrans Checking Feasibility of 710 Tunnel (LA Now) Gas Prices Rising in L.A.. O.C. Counties (Daily News) UK Debates Safety … Continued
8:36 AM PST on January 6, 2009
- Auto Industry Faces Across-the-Board Dive in New Car Sales (NYT)
- While We Weren’t Paying Attention, Sacramento Passed New Driving Laws (Daily News)
- How about that Downtown DASH? (Blogdowntown)
- How about that New-Found Cab Culture? (Times)
- Caltrans Checking Feasibility of 710 Tunnel (LA Now)
- Gas Prices Rising in L.A.. O.C. Counties (Daily News)
- UK Debates Safety Merits of Automatically Limiting Vehicle Speeds (BBC)
- Columbus Aims to Become America’s Next Great Biking City (Car Less Ohio via Streetsblog.net)
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