Day: February 18, 2009

In case you missed the broadcast on Friday, watch this episode of NOW. Told mostly from the perspective of Charlotte's Pat McCrory, the Republican mayor who brought light rail to North Carolina's biggest city, the show hits just about every major transportation issue to surface during the stimulus bill debate. Federal policies that discriminate against transit, state DOTs that throw money at politically-driven highway projects, transit agencies in dire need of federal support as local tax revenues shrivel up -- it's all here.

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WAITING FOR THE TRAIN

This conference examines solutions to global warming. For more information email sustainablecities@college.usc.edu

Bringing Back Broadway is pleased to support LA Streetcar Inc and we hope you'll join us to toast this important milestone in the Downtown Streetcar effort! 

Recently, BikingInLA put out a challenge to the five contenders running for City Council in the Fifth District.  The candidates are running to replace Jack Weiss, who is giving up his seat to seek the position of City Attorney.  Three of the six candidates, Adeena Bleich, Robert Schwartz and Robyn Ritter-Simon, responded with cogent, forward-thinking visions of an L.A. that is better for bicyclists.  Based on their statements it's pretty clear that if any of these three succeed Weiss, fifth district residents will see a huge improvement in their representation from a Councilman who's signature transportation policy was backing the controversial Pico-Olympic plan to speed up traffic then refusing to show up to any public forum to defend or explain it.

Now that the president has signed the stimulus bill, members of the Streetsblog Network have thrown themselves into the task of trying to figure out where all that money is going. To that end, we’re featuring Transportation for America‘s “Full Summary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009”, a handy roundup of the … Continued

GM, Chrysler Ask for Another Handout, This One for $14 Billion (NYT) Caltrans Holding Meetings on I-710 Project (Pasadena Star News) Obama Signs Stimulus Bill Into Law (NYT) R’s in State Senate Oust Leader Who Compromised on Budget (Times) Why the Prez Made High Speed Rail a Stimulus Priority (Politico) Transpo Sec LaHood on How … Continued