Today’s Headlines
Metrolink Approves 3% Rate Hike (Ventura County Star) Tom Vanderbilt: Why Trains Run Slower Than in the 1920’s (Slate) George Will Goes Off on Ray LaHood for Promoting Transportation Choices (Newsweek) What Makes a City Bike Friendly? Ask Davis, CA (Wired) Fixed-Gear Culture Finds Home in Venice (Times) Bratton Threatens Less Cops to Councilmen Voting … Continued
7:30 AM PDT on May 18, 2009
- Metrolink Approves 3% Rate Hike (Ventura County Star)
- Tom Vanderbilt: Why Trains Run Slower Than in the 1920’s (Slate)
- George Will Goes Off on Ray LaHood for Promoting Transportation Choices (Newsweek)
- What Makes a City Bike Friendly? Ask Davis, CA (Wired)
- Fixed-Gear Culture Finds Home in Venice (Times)
- Bratton Threatens Less Cops to Councilmen Voting Against Increased Funding (Daily News)
- More on the LAPD’s Handling of Hummer v Bike (Mikey Walley, Brayj Against the Machine, Metblogs)
- Designing Streets for Cars Doesn’t Help the Elderly and Disabled (Cap’n Transit via Streetsblog.net)
- Visit Los Angeles! With It’s Thriving Transit, Pedestrian and Bike Culture (Seattle Times)
- Metro Re-Thinking How to Use Private Security After Series of Beatings (Times)
- Profile Photog Contest Winners! (Streetsblog)
- How I’m Voting for Transportation Tomorrow (Street Heat)
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