Today’s Headlines
High Speed Rail Funding Measure Passes Assembly, Senate Vote Today (Capitol Alert) Bullet Train “Likely to Pass” Despite Divided Senate (Merc-News) Bill Now Includes Local Control Provisions (Capitol Alert) Silicon Valley Paper Warns Senators “Not to Cave to HSR Sweetners” (Silicon Valley Mercury) Meanwhile, Villaraigosa Still on 30/10 aka America Fast Forward Victory Lap (Patch, … Continued
8:37 AM PDT on July 6, 2012
- High Speed Rail Funding Measure Passes Assembly, Senate Vote Today (Capitol Alert)
- Bullet Train “Likely to Pass” Despite Divided Senate (Merc-News)
- Bill Now Includes Local Control Provisions (Capitol Alert)
- Silicon Valley Paper Warns Senators “Not to Cave to HSR Sweetners” (Silicon Valley Mercury)
- Meanwhile, Villaraigosa Still on 30/10 aka America Fast Forward Victory Lap (Patch, LA Observed)
- All Those Trips to Washington Paid Off (KCET)
- Boxer, Zev, Along for the Ride (NBC 4, Daily News)
- Valley Schools Get $1.7 Million in Caltrans Safe Routes Funding (Daily News)
- SGV Still Fuming Over No Gold Line Extension in Measure R+ (SGV Biz Journal)
- Epstein: Orange Line Gives Us One More Reason to Leave Your Car (HuffPo)
- If Your Child Dies in Car Crash without a Car Seat, You Could Lose Other Kids (LAT)
- Police Make 700 DUI Arrests in LA County Over Last Week (Daily News)
- Civil Rights Groups Start Prepping for 2014 Transportation Bill (Streetsblog Cap. Hill)
- Had Enough? Long Beach Readies to Fight 405 Expansion….in Orange County (Gazettes)
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