Today’s Headlines
Bike to Work Week Kicksoff with Bart, LaBonge, Huizar and the LACBC (Blogdowntown) Dude, Where’s the Bike Master Plan? (Soap Box) Whittier Cop Talks Cyclists Rights and Responsibilities (Whittier Daily News) Suit Against NYPD’s Critical Mass Policy Goes to Trial Today (Time’s Up) Pew Poll: Americans Still See Cars as #1 Household Necessity (Toll Roads … Continued
9:27 AM PDT on May 12, 2009
- Bike to Work Week Kicksoff with Bart, LaBonge, Huizar and the LACBC (Blogdowntown)
- Dude, Where’s the Bike Master Plan? (Soap Box)
- Whittier Cop Talks Cyclists Rights and Responsibilities (Whittier Daily News)
- Suit Against NYPD’s Critical Mass Policy Goes to Trial Today (Time’s Up)
- Pew Poll: Americans Still See Cars as #1 Household Necessity (Toll Roads News via Planetizen)
- If Cities Don’t Spend Road Funds, They’ll Lose Future Funding (Press-Enterprise)
- Gold Line Foothill Extenstion Left Out of Stimulus Plans (Pasadena Star News)
- Daily News, Fox News Reprint Metro’s Bike to Work Week Press Release
- Build More Parking, Says Parking Lobby (AP)
- The Greatest Threat to the Planet? Try Cul-de-Sacs (Net Density via Streetsblog.net)
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