Today’s Headlines
Oberstar: Transit Pushed Aside for Tax Cuts in Stimulus Bill (TPM) A Visionary Stimulus Would End Six-Lane Boondoggles, Make Cities More Walkable (Bloomberg) Not Just for Drug Deals Anymore: The Greening of LA’s Alleyways (Grist) Proposed Ordinance Would Ban New Digital Billboards (Times) Metro Board Moves Forward on Four Transit Projects (LA Now) Overhead Wires … Continued
8:58 AM PST on January 23, 2009
- Oberstar: Transit Pushed Aside for Tax Cuts in Stimulus Bill (TPM)
- A Visionary Stimulus Would End Six-Lane Boondoggles, Make Cities More Walkable (Bloomberg)
- Not Just for Drug Deals Anymore: The Greening of LA’s Alleyways (Grist)
- Proposed Ordinance Would Ban New Digital Billboards (Times)
- Metro Board Moves Forward on Four Transit Projects (LA Now)
- Overhead Wires May Soon Be Obsolete (Transport Politic)
- Wheels Pens Another Hydrogen Car Fantasy
- Dangerous Intersection Finally Gets Traffic Signal (LA Now, Daily News)
- Metrolink Board Elects New Leadership (Progressive Railroading)
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