Today's Headlines - more at Metro

1/10/2008

Transportation Headlines for Thursday January 10, 2008

Battle Heats Up Over 241 Toll Road Extension
http://www.scpr.org/news/stories/2008/01/09/19_toll_road_010908.html
KPCC 89.3 FM

Cancellations jeopardize California's 'hydrogen highway'
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_7930155
Mercury News

City/Locals Clash on Pico-Olympic Plan
http://streetheatla.blogspot.com/2008/01/citylocals-clash-on-pico-olympic-plan.html
StreetHeatLA

Councilman Hosts Town Hall on Pico/Olymic Traffic Proposal
http://www.venicepaper.net/pmt_more.php?id=402_0_1_0_M
Venice Paper

Deep cuts, closures across the state at heart of budget plan - Beaches, parks, schools and prisons would be hit. Some think the governor's proposal is a ruse to get a tax hike
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-budget10jan10,0,7999922.story?coll=la-home-center
Los Angeles Times

Gov. Schwarzenegger’s Latest Blockbuster Not "T-3" - Introducing "P3" Public Private Partnerships (High Desert Corridor)
http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/victorville_4438___article.html/new_corridor.html
Victorville Daily Press

High-Speed Trains Erode Europe's Borders - A new partnership aims to eliminate current coordination hassles and weld fast rail lines into a seamless network from Barcelona to Bratislava
http://snipurl.com/1x1vo
Business Week

How the Next President Can End Our Oil Addiction
http://www.wired.com/cars/energy/news/2008/01/oil
Wired

Inland transportation officials brace for release of governor's budget
http://snipurl.com/1x2o4
Press Enteprise

L.A., Long Beach port plan inspires similar effort in Washington state
http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2008/Jan08/010708/010908-03.htm
Land Line

Outcome Of Toll Lane Plan Rides On Federal Funds
http://www.knbc.com/traffic/15011799/detail.html
NBC 4 TV

Oxnard devises way to fix streets
http://www.pe.com/ap_news/California/CA_Financing_Streets_322639C.shtml
Press Enterprise

Pico/Olympic meeting...
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/bottleneck/2008/01/picoolympic-mee.html
Los Angeles Times/Bottleneck Blog

Regional, Intermodal Transportation Security Conference
http://www.thesecuritynetwork.org/rits.php
Security Network

Report on Foothill South tollway decried - O.C. agency says the Coastal Commission study of the proposed route was 'inaccurate and one-sided.'
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tollway10jan10,1,2481229.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Los Angeles Times

Sales tax hike eyed by Metro
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_7927647
Daily News

S.B. County OKs wish list for transportation projects
http://snipurl.com/1x2ob
Press Enterprise

Schwarzenegger's `hydrogen highway' runs out of gas
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_7926303
Daily News

State of the State: Here Come Public-Private Partnerships
http://streetheatla.blogspot.com/2008/01/state-of-state-here-come-public-private.html
StreetHeatLA

Taking 'Free' out of freeway: L.A. tolls?
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local&id=5880267
ABC 7 TV

The bike world outside L.A.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-dustup9jan09,0,4507139.story?coll=la-opinion-center
Los Angeles Times

The Smog Propagandist - Too bad for our health that Joe Coto gets less press than Bill Burke
http://www.lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/the_smog_propagandist/6567/
L.A. City Beat

Thousand Oaks voters will decide traffic law
http://snipurl.com/1x2mb
Ventura County Star

Toll lanes on fast-track as planners plot LA freeway demise
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_7922581?nclick_check=1
Mercury News

Too big, powerful - Re "Toll lanes may be price for freeways that move"
http://www.dailynews.com/letters/ci_7898010
Daily News

UCLA faculty experts advisory: transportation and public transit
http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-faculty-experets-advisory-42825.aspx
University of California at Los Angeles

U.S. Panel May Push 40-Cent Gas-Tax Rise
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a2kVk.ivSPUc&refer=us
Bloomberg