TransportGooru Headline News Agrregator Dispatch – March 25, 2009
Today’s Headlines from Los Angeles Transportation Blog
by Los Angeles Metro – Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive
- 3 dead in MTS shootings – Police gun down man who shot co-workers (San Diego Union Tribune)
- Art Leahy, So Long and Thanks For All the Fish (Orange County Progressive)
- BART plans to introduce TransLink in June (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Blueprint America – Stimulus Roadblock? (PBS)
- California’s Wipeout Economy (Washington Post)
- Call List Gives a View of Potential Downtown Transportation Projects (BlogDowntown)
- Cyclists Strike Back at LAPD Commission Meeting (LAist)
- e-Traction Develops Diesel Electric Hybrid Bus ()Ubergizmo
- Gov. Talks Transportation Financing and Expansion on Meet the Press (StreetsBlogLA)
- Hollywood Pitch: Bring the Junkets Back (Hollywood & Vine) (New York Times)
- Is an Italian rail company taking L.A. for a ride? AnsaldoBreda Inc. is promising much in order to keep building light-rail cars for the MTA, but is it all going anywhere? (Los Angeles Times)
- Japan: Blurring the line between bullets and trains (Los Angeles Times)
- Lawsuit against L.A., Long Beach port truck plan is reversed (Land Line)
- Los Angeles and Mass Transit? Designers Can Dream (Fast Company)
- Mass Transit? Meet Your Possible Future (NBC)
- New Plan For An Old Freeway (CalTrans Inside Seven)
- New York City – Do Not Want: Possible New York Subway Fare Hike (Jaunted)
- NY Commuters brace for MTA fare hike vote Wednesday (Newsday)
- NY Mayor: Get ‘Mad As Hell’ Over Transit Fare Hikes – Takes Line From ‘Network’ To Inspire Commuters (New York Post)
- OCTA Makes Worst of Choices – Votes to Slash Bus Service, Eliminate Jobs (Orange County Progressive)
- Open source and open data make for transit innovation (Trillium)
- Pasadena invited to join Foothill Transit (Pasadena Star News)
- Pasadena may join Foothill Transit(Pasadena Star News)
- Proposed Victorville to Vegas train would likely bypass Barstow (Desert Dispatch)
- San Diego’s Smart Growth Fund Dissolved (Smart Growth Online)
- San Francisco Rail: A Living History(Planetizen)
- Supervisors to consider resolution calling for freeway funding(Desert Sun)
- Sustaining the New Urbanism(Planetizen)
- UCLA Anderson Forecast: dark days (Los Angeles Times)
- U.S. Ports Plan Clean-Truck Programs(Journal of Commerce)
- What the Cahuenga Pass Looked Like Before the 101 Freeway (LAist)
Today’s Headlines from Streetsblog
- MTA Doomsday Is Here (NY1, News, 2nd Ave Sagas)
- Everyone’s Telling the State Senate to Wake Up and Rescue Transit (NYT, News, Politicker)
- …Except This Daily News Columnist
- Park Slope Groups Push for Two-Way Streets on 8th Ave, Prospect Park West (Bklyn Paper)
- Gehry: Atlantic Yards Not Gonna Happen (News, Post)
- City Room Launches a New Weekly Column on Cycling
- Police Parking on Sidewalks, the Neverending Story (The Local)
- What a Livable Suburb Looks Like (TC Streets via Streetsblog.net)
- Oklahoma City Needs to Downsize Its Streets (How We Drive)
- How Would You Design a Car-Free Bike Oasis on Governor’s Island? (Gov’s Island Blog)
Note: TransportGooru thanks all the authors for contributing to this headline news summary. This dispatch is made possible by integrating the headline news feeds from the above mentioned sources. At times, you may encounter a repeat of the same headline news since they are captured by various individuals working at different organizations. Please visit respective source websites if you have any trouble viewing the articles behind the URLs.
