Today’s Headlines
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8:28 AM PST on March 8, 2012
- Metro Offers Online Interactive Map for New Freeway Project in the Desert (The Source)
- Mobile Billboards Banned in Los Angeles (City Maven)
- Did You Know There Was Controversy Over High Speed Rail? (LAT)
- Planning the Key to Make High Speed Rail Work (Fresno Bee)
- Confusion Still Reigns on What Happens to CRA Money (SacBee)
- Villaraigosa’s “Conference of Mayors” Pushing Transportation Reauthorization (SacBee)
- Is Banning Food Trucks Near Schools an Answer to Childhood Obesity? (LAT)
- Council Still Moving on Mobile Billboards (Daily News)
- Do Real-Time Updates Increase Transit Ridership? (Atlantic Cities)
- Streetsblog Publisher Mark Gorton Takes on Universal’s Lorax Impostor (MNN)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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