Day: June 4, 2009
Streetsblog LA
LaHood Vows to Avert Federal Transpo Bankruptcy and Pay For It
The Obama administration is working on a plan to fill the shortfall
in the nation's highway trust fund by August without adding to the
federal deficit, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told Congress
today.
June 4, 2009
More on the Bike Plan: Strength and Weaknesses
(As you may have noticed, Streetsblog is running a series gathering different people's opinions on the Bike Master Plan. You can read statements by a group of different bike activists from Monday, Dan Koepel on Tuesday, Kent Strumpell in the comments section yesterday and now LACBC Founder and Green L.A. Transportation Working Group Chair Joe Linton today.)
June 4, 2009
“Shovel Ready” High Speed Rail? CA Is Ahead of the Game
Yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden, met with governors from eight different states that are competing for High Speed Rail funding. Streetsblog's D.C. Correspondent wrote a story about the national implications of the meeting available at our New York site. While neither Schwarzenegger nor another representative from California was present, there was good news for California. From today's Times,
June 4, 2009
Transit Planners to Congress: Please Figure Out How to Fund Us
To all but the most ardent transit wonks, the phrase "New Starts"
sounds like a motivational tape sold on late-night TV. But those two
words actually represent Washington's predominant mechanism to pay for
major transit expansions -- everything from expanding an existing rail
station to building a new bus line.
June 4, 2009
Slow Ride, Take It Easy
I've been thinking a lot about slowness lately. Part of my
inspiration has been from necessity: I recently found an old tandem
bike on Craigslist and have been using it to get around Brooklyn with
the kid. It weighs roughly one ton. It has only one speed, and only one
pace: stately. When riding it, I affect a lordly indifference to the
cars and bikes that whiz by.
June 4, 2009
Today’s Headline
Times Announces Bike Maps on LA Now blogsite LABAC Member Kent Strumpell Comments on BMP (Streetsblog Comments) Gold Line Extension Not Opening in June (LAist) Child Cyclist in Hospital after Crash with Car in Thousand Oaks (TO Acorn) Houston’s Light Rail System Is Spurring Progress on Ped-Friendly Streets (Houston Chron) Here’s One Example of How … Continued
June 4, 2009