TransportGooru Headline News Aggregator Dispatch – April 8, 2009
LA Transportation Blog – Transportation Headlines for April 8, 2009
- City Plans to Raise Speed Limits for Valley in the Midst of Deadly Year for Pedestrians StreetsBlogLA
- County Supervisors Approve Design for Civic Park BlogDowntown
- Executive is added to bulk up Port of Los Angeles Daily Breeze
- Getting America to Ride the High-Speed Rails – According to a new study commissioned by HNTB Corporation, more than half of Americans (54 percent) would choose modern high-speed trains over automobile (33 percent) and air travel (13 percent) if fares and travel time were about the same PR NewsWire
- Holmby-Westwood Furious at Jack Weiss’ Plan to Remove Traffic Calming StreetsBlogLA
- “I Love It”: Riders Applaud NYC’s First Bus Rapid Transit Route Mobilizing the Region
- LA Stimulus Money Will be the Most Transparent in the Nation, Says Garcetti LAist
- Los Angeles Rates 14 on ‘Best Walking Cities’ List LAist
- Pico-Olympic Traffic Boards, Final Meeting CurbedLA
- Project for Public Spaces publishes transportation series with AARP The Oregonian
- RailPAC Annual Meeting and NARP Region XII Meeting: “STEEL WHEELS IN CALIFORNIA Rail Passenger Association of California and Nevada
- Staying on track – Can public transit be saved amid state budget cuts? San Diego City Beat
- Steering sales tax to transit proposed – Move might delay county road projects San Diego Union Tribune
- Westside transit forum scheduled at MAK Center Los Angeles Times/LA Now
- Woman snaps photo of subway groper, e-mails to cops NY Newsday
Streetsblog – Transportation Headlines for April 8, 2009
- MTA Releases Timeline of Doomsday Service Cuts (News)
- Dem Leaders Say They Need Republican Votes for Transit Funding Plan (NY1)
- Silver Asks Upstate GOP Sens. to Support MTA Rescue and Gets Rebuffed (Politicker)
- Straphangers Campaign to Leaflet Riders in Carl Kruger’s District (Daily Politics)
- Hit-and-Run Van Driver Kills Queens Grandmother on Jamaica Ave (News, NYT)
- Red Light Cam Expansion Clears Assembly and State Senate (Newsday)
- News Takes Segway Recliner for a Spin, Imagines the Easy Parking; Post Mocks Its Top Speed
- Williamsburg Walks Is Coming Back for Another Summer of Car-Free Saturdays (Bklyn Paper)
- Driving Kills Millions of Animals Every Year, Walking Doesn’t (Salon)
- Orphan Road Ponders the Future of Mixed-Use Development in Seattle (via Streetsblog.net)
Transportation for America – Transportation Headlines for April 8, 2009
- Low bids for construction projects are allowing Maryland to get the bang for its buck through the stimulus. (Washington Post)
- A new study indicates that transportation spending and investment in green jobs brings a huge economic boost. (Oregonian)
- Without have access to adequate public transportation, Alzheimer’s patients face a tough road aheadwhen they give up driving. (Associated Press)
- GM looks to the PUMA vehicle – a self-balancing, two-wheeled scooter – to help solve its business woes. (Wall Street Journal)
- U.S. PIRG looks at the a few of the potential dangers of privatizing roads.
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