Today’s Headlines
Nine Dead in DC Metro Crash (NYT, Times, News) Read Oberstar’s Transportation Bill Yourself (DC Streetsblog) City Staff Confused at Caltrans’ Conference on Pedestrian Planning (City Watch) Caltrans’ State Director Take’s Leahy’s Old Job at OCTA (LA Now, Sac Bee) LA Is Full of Dumb Bike Lanes, Thank Goodness for the Bike Plan (LA Examiner) … Continued
8:10 AM PDT on June 23, 2009
- Nine Dead in DC Metro Crash (NYT, Times, News)
- Read Oberstar’s Transportation Bill Yourself (DC Streetsblog)
- City Staff Confused at Caltrans’ Conference on Pedestrian Planning (City Watch)
- Caltrans’ State Director Take’s Leahy’s Old Job at OCTA (LA Now, Sac Bee)
- LA Is Full of Dumb Bike Lanes, Thank Goodness for the Bike Plan (LA Examiner)
- Long Beach Allocates $1.5 Million for Bike Trail Along Pacific Electric Trail (Press Telegram)
- Heartbreaking Pictures of Long Gone American Train Stations (Infrastructurist)
- Savannah Cops: Ped Injury Justifies Jaywalking Crackdown (Sustain Savannah via Streetsblog.net)
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