Today’s Headlines
More headlines over at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
7:49 AM PDT on July 13, 2009
- The Other Side of the Bikes on Trains Debate (Bus Bench)
- Poll Shows Glendale Residents Support Tunnel, Najarian Calls Poll a Joke (Glendale News Press)
- Gov’t-Backed GM Is Out of Bankruptcy and Hoping the New Camaros Keep Selling (NYT, WSJ)
- Call to Turn Shuttered Car Plants Into Rail Car Plants Growing (SF Business Journal via Ped. View)
- Trend: Transit Agencies Outsourcing Service to Private Firms (WSJ – preview only)
- The White House Office of Urban Policy Is Finally Getting Busy This Week (WaPo)
- Who’s Next for Google Transit? (LAist)
- Bus Fares Rising in Ventura County (VC Star)
- Still on the Books: 1950s-era Ban on Bike Parking in Jacksonville CBD (Bike Jax via Streetsblog.net)
More headlines over at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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