Today’s Headlines
More on Krekorian and A.B. 766 (City Watch, Glendale News Press) Bad News: The State is Going Broke. Good News: They Can’t Take Anymore from Transit (Times) Five of Six Budget Props. Losing (SD Union-Tribune) Gold Line Eastside Extension Gets $67 Million from Stimulus (Metblogs, Curbed) Another Hit and Kidnap Driver Goes to Court (Fox) … Continued
8:06 AM PDT on May 8, 2009
- More on Krekorian and A.B. 766 (City Watch, Glendale News Press)
- Bad News: The State is Going Broke. Good News: They Can’t Take Anymore from Transit (Times)
- Five of Six Budget Props. Losing (SD Union-Tribune)
- Gold Line Eastside Extension Gets $67 Million from Stimulus (Metblogs, Curbed)
- Another Hit and Kidnap Driver Goes to Court (Fox)
- ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Ain’t Green (Grist)
- Feds Stop Funding Fuel Cell Car Research (NYT)
- Seattle Releases a Pedestrian Master Plan (Seattle Transit Blog via Streetsblog.net)
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