Today’s Headlines
Budget Slashing Mayor Needs to Figure Out How Not to Piss Off Labor (Times) CA Cities Need Predictable Source of Funds for Transit (SF Streetsblog) Unbelievably Poor Security in Dodger Parking Lot: Guns, Stabbings on Opening Day (NBC 4) City Council Ok’s More Speed for Police (Times) Obama Boasts of 2,000 Stim-Funded Transportation Projects (WaPo) … Continued
9:33 AM PDT on April 14, 2009
- Budget Slashing Mayor Needs to Figure Out How Not to Piss Off Labor (Times)
- CA Cities Need Predictable Source of Funds for Transit (SF Streetsblog)
- Unbelievably Poor Security in Dodger Parking Lot: Guns, Stabbings on Opening Day (NBC 4)
- City Council Ok’s More Speed for Police (Times)
- Obama Boasts of 2,000 Stim-Funded Transportation Projects (WaPo)
- What Makes People Afraid of Urbanism? (TOW via Streetsblog.net)
- Detroit Pols Want to Tear Down Historic Michigan Central Station (Infrastructurist)
- Utah Columnist Celebrates Biking…By Anyone Else (SLC Trib)
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