Today’s Headlines
Dodgers: $100 Million for Fancy Spring Training Stadium, $0 for Local Fans Who Ride Transit How to Keep Expanding Transit (Planetizen) L.A. Loses Ruling on Big Billboards (Daily News) Carmakers on the Dole Still Splurging on DC Lobbyists (WaPo via Carfree USA) Cheaper Gas Can’t Last (Times) With Oil Prices Collapsed, So Have Sales of … Continued
7:59 AM PDT on March 17, 2009
- Dodgers: $100 Million for Fancy Spring Training Stadium, $0 for Local Fans Who Ride Transit
- How to Keep Expanding Transit (Planetizen)
- L.A. Loses Ruling on Big Billboards (Daily News)
- Carmakers on the Dole Still Splurging on DC Lobbyists (WaPo via Carfree USA)
- Cheaper Gas Can’t Last (Times)
- With Oil Prices Collapsed, So Have Sales of Natural Gas Cars (Up to Speed)
- Why Is Wisconsin Spending Big on Road Expansion? (Political Environment via Streetsblog.net)
- Bernadino Pols Want All Their Stimulus to Go to I-215 Expansion (Desert Dispatch)
- NYC Streetsblog Talks to City Attorney Candidates
- C-SPAN Has Fresh Senate Testimony on Sustainable Transport (via Grist)
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