TransportGooru Headline News Aggregator Dispatch – April 9, 2009
LA Transportation Blog – Transportation Headlines for April 9, 2009
- 3 council members want to move L.A. Marathon to a new date – They are urging that the race be returned to a Sunday in March starting next year. It is currently set for a holiday Monday, such as Memorial Day, when it will be held this year Los Angeles Times
- BART budget calls for fare hike San Francisco Examiner
- Bikes and Mass Transit are changing Los Angeles Travelin’ Local
- Celebrate National Train Day and Discover the Rail Way PR Newswire
- City Considering Congestion Parking for the Downtown StreetsBlogLA
- Cities Rely On High-Tech Method To Stop Graffiti NPR
- Don’t let buses disappear or fares increase – attend SANDAG public workshop Ocean Beach Rag
- Exposition Construction Authority Votes on Preferred Alignment for Phase 2 of the Expo Line Project Friends4Expo
- Garcetti Asks For Stimulus Input CurbedLA
- Greyhound debuts new logo, upgraded fleet Metro Magazine
- High-Speed Rail Unlocks Intermodal Potential CleantechBlog
- Inland officials list their federal funding priorities Press Enterprise
- Laguna Niguel wants to cover up Amtrak mooning event Los Angeles Times/LA Now
- Long Beach Transit launches new fare tech Metro Magazine
- Los Angeles Infrastructure or Bust – Metro gives second chance to a snafu-riddled Italian railcar builder(AnsaldoBreda) LA Weekly
- Metro Crenshaw Transit Corridor Meeting Held in Inglewood Inglewood Today
- Metro Transportation Planning Objectives Transport Politic
- Metro Westside Subway Extension Facebook
- More Transit Expansion?: Metro Holding Meetings in South Bay StreetsBlogLA
- New High Speed Rail Projects Around The World The Infrastructurist
- Nova Bus completes N.Y. facility Metro Magazine
- Peter Rogoff to be nominated as FTA Administrator Transit Talent
- Propane-fueled Disneyland shuttle bus explodes Daily News
- Public transit getting millions in stimulus funds San Bernardino Sun
- Should buses really compete against automobiles? Buses, Trains and the Media
- U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary LaHood to Speak at ITS America’s 2009 Annual Meeting & Exposition on June 1 PR Web
- Where Trojans are in bloom (scroll down for info on Expo station) Los Angeles Times
Streetsblog – Transportation Headlines for April 9, 2009
- Hit-and-Run Drivers Kill Two Women in Separate Incidents Wednesday Night (News)
- Obama Appoints Federal Transit Administrator (TOW via Streetsblog.net)
- Tom Friedman Wants a National Carbon Tax Instead of Cap-and-Trade (NYT)
- The Economist Has Some Questions About High-Speed Rail in the U.S.
- Brooklyn Paper: Bay Ridge Sidewalk Parking Epidemic Due to ‘Lack of Parking’
- Study: 21 Percent of NYC Cyclist Fatalities Linked to Alcohol (City Room)
- Sprawl Development Shouldn’t Qualify as ‘Green Building’ (City of Lakes via Switchboard)
- Jeff Mapes on America’s Bike Renaissance (Infrastructurist)
- Beijing Extends Car Restrictions Another Year (AP via Planetizen)
- MTA Gets in the Blogging Game (Metro via 2nd Ave Sagas)
AASHTO Daily Transportation Update – April 9, 2008
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