Today’s Headlines
U.S. Transportation Secretary Has Trouble Staying Awake in the Afternoon (NYT) Happy 70th Birthday Union Station (LAist, Blogdowntown, ABC7) Orange Line Extension Will Cause Some Business Relocation (Daily News) Surf Santa Monica Reprints SM Press Release on League of American Cyclists Award IL Sen. Wants to Boost Funding for Nation’s Biggest Transit Systems (Progressive Railroading) … Continued
7:53 AM PDT on May 5, 2009
- U.S. Transportation Secretary Has Trouble Staying Awake in the Afternoon (NYT)
- Happy 70th Birthday Union Station (LAist, Blogdowntown, ABC7)
- Orange Line Extension Will Cause Some Business Relocation (Daily News)
- Surf Santa Monica Reprints SM Press Release on League of American Cyclists Award
- IL Sen. Wants to Boost Funding for Nation’s Biggest Transit Systems (Progressive Railroading)
- Infrastructurist Maps Out the Return of the Streetcar (via Streetsblog.net)
- Arizona Motorist Shoots and Kills Speed Cam Operator (Wheels)
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