Today’s Headlines
More headlines over at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
9:37 AM PDT on October 21, 2009
- County Congressmen Tell Metro Subway to the Sea and Downtown Connector Unlikely to Receive New Starts Funding (Times, LAist)
- But WeHo Pumped for, Ahem, “Fabulous” Subway Line (Examiner)
- BRU Taking Metro to Court Over Fares (Leagle)
- Rutten Wrong Again: Exempting Stadium from Environmental Laws a Great Idea (Times)
- Insiders Favored to Be L.A.’s Next Top Cop (Times)
- UCLA Students, Faculty, Staff Make it to Class Sans Car (Daily Bruin)
- Palmdale Using Parking Lots to Harness Wind Power (Times)
- Deaf and Blind Pedestrians Make Streets Advocacy Headway in Minnesota (Star Trib)
- Jaywalking Crackdowns Don’t Make Peds Safer (Car-Free in Big D via Streetsblog.net)
More headlines over at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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