Today’s Headlines

  • Report on ExpressLanes Show Average, Median Income of Users in Middle Class  (The Source)
  • Curbed Is Convinced (Curbed)
  • Polls Open in CD6 for Martinez v Montanez (LAT)
  • Sorry Folks, JSK Isn’t Coming to Run LADOT (Crain’s)
  • SMMOA Holds Party for the Coming Bergamont Expo Station (Patch)
  • Big Blue Bus Invites Tourists to “Travel Like a Local” (SM Mirror)
  • Cyclist Injured by Driver in SF Where Merchants Fought Protected Bike Lane (Streetsblog SF)
  • Gas Prices Up, AAA Thinks They’re Going to Go Up More (Daily Breeze)
  • Is the I-5 Tunnel Crash a Good Reason to Oppose the 710 Big Dig? Trick Question, There Are No Bad Reasons to Oppose the 710 Big Dig (Pasadena Now)

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill

  • Kenny Easwaran

    The I-5 Tunnel crash seems like a good reason to start dismantling the stretch of the 2 that is south of the 5! Turn it into a normal boulevard during the inevitable reconstruction process they’re going to have to do.

  • Numan Parada

    If anything, the truck fire could just as easily be used as a potent reason to complete the 710 gap, as it paralyzed the 5 Freeway and left motorists with either the 101 Freeway or clogging up Fremont Avenue through South Pasadena (as my buddies and I did when heading to San Diego this weekend), with no other practical options.

  • Erik Griswold

    What about the I-5 truck bypass tunnel fire at the junction with the 14?
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/10/14/at-least-3-dead-10-injured-after-massive-tunnel-fire-on-california-freeway/

    Now that was a mess