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1/04/2007

Transportation Headlines for Thursday Dec. 4, 2007

A fair return for California
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/opinions/ci_4938773
Whittier Daily News

An airport chief who flew high: The mayor might have a difficult time landing another manager as good as outbound Lydia Kennard
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-kennard04jan04,0,4581842.story?coll=la-opinion-leftrail
Los Angeles Times

Bus Rapid Transit BRT NEWSLANE: VOL. 5, NUMBER 4
http://www.calstart.org/programs/brt/archives/BrtNewslaneVol5No4.pdf (pdf file)
CalStart/FTA

Bus Transit Service In Land Development Planning
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/tcrp/tcrp_syn_67.pdf (pdf file)
Transit Cooperative Research Program/Transportation Research Board

Comparative Review And Analysis Of State Transit Funding Programs
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_569.pdf
Nation Cooperative Highway Research Program/Transportation Research Board

Congestion Pricing: A primer
http://tinyurl.com/yl8qdf (pdf file)
U.S. Federal Highway Administration

Future Of Highway And Transit Finance: Steering clear of the breakdown lane
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/trnews/trnews247FutureFinance.pdf (pdf file)
Transportation Research News

Government finalizes rules for port ID card: Background checks to begin in March on 750,000; card to go into effect 18 months later
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_4946341
Press Telegram

L.A.'s unfriendly skies: Kennard offered regional solution to air travel problems
http://www.dailynews.com/opinions/ci_4944552
Daily News

MTA driver killed when bus hits tree
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/regstate/articles/5083091.html
Daily Breeze

Redlands finally gets started updating General Plan
http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/news/ci_4936858
Redlands Daily Facts

Region can't fix key problems, official warns: David E. Janssen, L.A. County's retiring chief executive, makes a pitch for giving his successor more power
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-janssen4jan04,1,5184297.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=1&cset=true
Los Angeles Times

Transportation-bond dollars unlikely to end traffic jams
http://www.capitolweekly.net/news/article.html?article_id=1199
Capitol Weekly

Turning Green Into Gold (see no. 10 on list)
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=4841&IssueNum=187
LA City Beat