Today’s Headlines
Today’s Times Puff Piece on the Efforts to Clean the Ports. No Mention of VMT. Sac. Bee Columnist Really Wants More Highway Expansion, Especially on the 710 Goodmon: How Can Villaraigosa Call for Transit Unity When He’s Shafting South L.A.? (Fix Expo) Scag Boss: Just Because There Is a Recession, There’s No Need to Stop … Continued
8:33 AM PDT on August 24, 2009
- Today’s Times Puff Piece on the Efforts to Clean the Ports. No Mention of VMT.
- Sac. Bee Columnist Really Wants More Highway Expansion, Especially on the 710
- Goodmon: How Can Villaraigosa Call for Transit Unity When He’s Shafting South L.A.? (Fix Expo)
- Scag Boss: Just Because There Is a Recession, There’s No Need to Stop Widening Highways (Press-Enterprise)
- Women Kills Child, Maims Family While Turning Into Crosswalk. No Charges Filed (Times)
- Know Your Transportation Lobbyists, the American Trucking Association (DC Streetsblog)
- High Speed Rail Is Good for the Environment (Curbed)
- Study: Cyclists Cause Fewer Than 10 Percent of Bike/Car Collisions (TreeHugger)
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