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3/09/2006

Transportation Headlines for Thursday March 9, 2006

Accord Sought on Works Measure: Schwarzenegger and legislators scramble to reach a compromise on infrastructure proposal
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-infrastructure9mar09,1,1670950.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Los Angeles Times

Big Bus Blue Proposes Possible Changes
http://www.smmirror.com/MainPages/DisplayArticleDetails.asp?eid=2714
Santa Monica Mirror

Business leaders lobbying for bond
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_3582494
Los Angeles Daily News

Chicago Transit Workers Authorize Strike
http://www.masstransitmag.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=3&id=423
Mass Transit Magazine

Dems polish $30 billion infrastructure bond for June ballot: GOP says measure lacks necessary policy changes
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/09/BAGSVHKTRA1.DTL
San Francisco Chronicle

Driving Passengers Off Metrolink
http://www.laist.com/archives/2006/03/08/driving_passengers_off_metrolink.php
LAist Blog

Future Bohemia: North Hollywood’s NoHo Commons may be a model for a city learning to love the subway (Transit Oriented Development)
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=3401&IssueNum=144
L.A. City Beat

Looking to the Water to Ease Congestion on Land: Transportation officials seek to boost shipping on coastal and inland routes to provide an alternative to trucking
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ship8mar08,1,2046535.story?coll=la-headlines-business
Los Angeles Times

Michael Dukakis: on why trains trump cars, and how Schwarzenegger is misspending on highways
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=3404&IssueNum=144
L.A. City Beat

Metro Rapid Program
http://www.fta.dot.gov/2396_7279_ENG_HTML.htm
Federal Transit Administration website

MTA Tokens
http://www.2givenow.org/Los_Angeles_MTA_Tokens.htm
2 Give Now website

Pasadena Gold Line Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.ci.pasadena.ca.us/trans/transit/goldline/faq.asp
City of Pasadena, Department of Transportation website

Railway pact to silence train whistles: Placentia will ban the horns for now and hopes safety upgrades will make it a federal Quiet Zone for good
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/atoz/article_1037730.php
Orange County Register

Redlands Trolley Red Line gets low marks in public hearing
http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/news/ci_3581821
Redlands Daily Facts

Trucker Talk (Ports, Freight/Goods Movement, Alameda Corridor)
http://www.laweekly.com/letters/12860/trucker-talk/
L.A. Weekly

Tunnel vision: Retrofit of Simi structure expected to take 200 days (Metrolink)
http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/sv/article/0,1375,VCS_239_4523829,00.html
Ventura County Star