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7/07/2006

Transportation Headlines for Friday July 7, 2006

Agency weighs casino routes: At least one gambling house would subsidize the bus runs
http://snipurl.com/suua
Riverside Press Enterprise

Amtrak enables bookings on mobile devices, upgrades site
http://www.travelweekly.com/articles.aspx?articleid=52140&rbp=1
Travel Weekly

A Year Later, Life in London Mostly Normal
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-britain-bombings-one-year,1,341831.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines
Los Angeles Times

Bus-inspired art wins students recognition
http://snipurl.com/suu5
Riverside Press Enterprise

County Public Works Needs Bond Funds to Invest in County Roads & Mobility: LADPW Director Donald Wolfe describes the vast challenge of maintaining the infrastructure of the nation's largest county
http://snipurl.com/svf5
Metro Investment Report

FibroLAN Fiber-optic Networking Technology Deployed by Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority
http://www.financevisor.com/market/news_detail.aspx?rid=33958
FinanceVisor

L.A.-S.F. train is a quick traffic fix: High-speed rail can crack the two cities' desperate congestion cycle, says Michael Dukakis
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-dukakis7jul07,0,2886325.story?coll=la-home-commentary
Los Angeles Times

LAX Flight Path Museum hours expand to five days a week
http://www.argonautnewspaper.com/articles/2006/07/06/news_-_features/venice/w1.txt
The Argonaut

Integration Highway: Federal, state and local transportation agencies engage in numerous projects to promote data sharing
http://www.public-cio.com/story.php?id=2006.06.12-99812
Public CIO

Omnitrans unveils its new vans: Bus agency getting 25 for disabled passengers
http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_4021407
San Bernardino Sun

Seattle Metro to raise fares 75 cents in 10 years: Also, boost in sales tax sought for bus service expansion
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation/276628_buses06.html
Seattle Post Intelligencer

Surface Transportation Funding: Options for States
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/pubs/summaries/014233-sum.htm
National Conference of State Legislatures

Transit stories: Tales about riding Metro Rail and buses make up a growing subset of the L.A. blogosphere
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2006/07/transit_stories.html
L.A. Observed

Why does the "Vista" bus in the Ventura County Transportation Commission's line of buses have Wyoming license plates?
http://www.toacorn.com/news/2006/0706/Columns/013.html
Thousand Oaks Acorn