Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

The Bike Summit Was Awesome (BikinginLA, LA Loyalist, Travelin’ Local, Brayj Against the Machine) U.S. Transit Ridership Hit 50-Year High in 2008 (NYT) Santa Monica Changing Its Taxi Plan? (Canyon News) Mileage Tax Gains Support, Raises Eyebrows, in D.C. (SacBee) UCLA Peds Sick of Dodging Cyclists, Skateboarders and Scooterers (Daily Bruin via Curbed) Lance Armstrong … Continued

By Damien Newton

8:26 AM PDT on March 9, 2009

The Bike Summit Was Awesome (BikinginLA, LA Loyalist, Travelin’ Local, Brayj Against the Machine)
U.S. Transit Ridership Hit 50-Year High in 2008 (NYT)
Santa Monica Changing Its Taxi Plan? (Canyon News)
Mileage Tax Gains Support, Raises Eyebrows, in D.C. (SacBee)
UCLA Peds Sick of Dodging Cyclists, Skateboarders and Scooterers (Daily Bruin via Curbed)
Lance Armstrong Visits La, Leads Hundreds of Cyclists Through Hollywood (Metblogs, LAist)
Disney Hall as Bike Unfriendly? (Urban Hippie via LAist)
With Biking on the Rise, How Should Cyclists Use the Road? (NYT)
Why Developers Like Cul-de-Sacs (Austin Contrarian via Streetsblog.net)
LA Bike Club Promo Photo Circa 1887 (Metblogs)

Damien Newton

Today's Headlines

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