TransportGooru Headline News Aggregator Dispatch – April 1, 2009
LA Transportation Blog – Headlines for Wednesday April 1, 2009
- 6th Street Study Expands List of Considered Design Options BlogDowntown
- AC Transit riders’ claim of funding bias tossed San Francisco Chronicle
- Air Board Fines Big Blue Bus Santa Monica Surf/Lookout News
- Artists Asked to Make “Gateway” to San Gabriel Valley CurbedLA
- Best Practices in Transit Service Planning Transportation Research Board
- Big Blue Bus hit with hefty fine Santa Monica Daily Press
- Bob Hope Airport to kick off new valet service today Daily News
- California Bond Sale Could Revive Public Works New York Times
- California steps up its hydrogen plans GasWorld
- Capturing the Value of Transit – New report by Center for Transit-Oriented Development released Reconnecting America
- Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program: A Status Report 2009 Transportation Research Board
- Connecting California: Key Public Transportation Projects and Their Benefits for the Golden State Transportation Research Board
- Curitiba’s BRT: Inspired Bus Rapid Transit Around the World StreetFilms
- Curitiba’s Bus Rapid Transit: 2.3 Million Passengers a Day Alternative Energy Newswire
- EPA Needs to Improve Its Efforts to Reduce Air Emissions at U.S. Ports Transportation Research Board
- Financing Transportation Infrastructure in California Transportation Research Board
- From Long Beach to Pasadena, It Would be One Train Ride LAist
- Gas station owners rebel against pollution rules Los Angeles Times
- Get Ready for Another Set of ‘Subway to the Sea’ Public Meetings LAist
- Logistics may be first to recover from recession Whittier Daily News
- Metro Brings Back Online Chats: Chat This Friday with Carolyn Flowers StreetsBlogLA
- New 37-Mile Hiking Trail to Open on Catalina Island LAist
- Poticha Tells Senate US Needs Transformative Transportation Bill – RA CEO says bill should link transportation to housing, climate change, energy security, green jobs, affordability, equity, health Reconnecting America
- Public Transportation’s Role in Addressing Global Climate Change Transportation Research Board
- Review of Liability and Indemnity Provisions Associated with Commuter Rail Agreements Transportation Research Board
- SANBAG transit plan likely to be delayed again Press Enterprise
- SF MTA Board Will Be Asked to Declare Fiscal Emergency StreetsBlogSF
- Streetcar Economics – Michael Powell explains why he’s become “evangelical” about streetcars Reconnecting America
- Students, Professors Activists Call for Grade-Separated Connector StreetsBlogLA
- Transportation’s Role in Emergency Evacuation and Reentry Transportation Research Board
- Westside transit forum scheduled at MAK Center Los Angeles Times/LA Now
TransportGooru wishes Happy 16th birthday for Metro!
- MTA Rescue Talks in Chaos as Suburban Senate Dems Balk at Payroll Tax (NYT, News, NY1)
- 50-Cent Cab Surcharge Was on the Table (News, Post)
- Tom Robbins Skewers Comrades Kruger and Espada (Voice)
- Bill Hammond: Beware an MTA Plan From Three Men in a Room (News)
- Bike Theft in NYC: How Widespread Is It? Don’t Ask NYPD (City Room)
- NJ Turnpike Widening a Total Waste of Money (MTR)
- House Dems From NYC Aren’t Taking the Metro to Work (News)
- Conservatives Who Bike (Utne)
- The New Haven BRT Line That Might Have Been (DNH via Streetsblog.net)
- 60 Years of Transportation Investment Collapse in Giant Ponzi Scheme (Faking Places)
- Obama Hands TransAlt Critical Task of Rebranding American Car Models
- Bay Area transit officials are ready to declare that the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency is in a state of “fiscal emergency.”
- Paratransit riders in Phoenix face tough times. (USA Today)
- Greenwire looks at the details on emissions standards in the proposed climate bill. (Via New York Times)
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