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8/25/2009

Transportation Headlines for Tuesday August 25, 2009

California seeks $1.1B rail stimulus
Business Journal

Case For Ending the Freeway
Caltics

Drivers Of All Incomes Using Washington State’s Toll Lanes
Liberty Republican Forum

Ernesto Chavez, Mineta Transportation Institute Graduate Student, Wins American Public Transportation Foundation Award - The Anaheim resident is a planning manager with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Mineta Transportation Institute

Final Applications Submitted for Phase I of High-Speed Rail Stimulus Dollars
Transport Politic

Graffiti is Bad but Vulgar Words Makes Us MONEY
The Bus Bench

Los Angeles International Airport Among Nation's Best for On-Time Flight Arrival and Departure Performance
MarketWire

New TCRP report on transit call centers and 511
The Transit Wire

No Federal Bailout: States, Regions Confront Transpo Funding Woes
Cascadia Prospectus

PCH Closed After Tree Falls on Bus in Pacific Palisades
LAist

Second Life: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Library Headquarters Open To The Public
Designing Digitally

Setbacks bedevil Compass card
San Diego Union Tribune

Social Costs of Car-free Living in Small Cities
LA Streetsblog

Thumbs Up for Transit's Text-Messaging Ban
Journal of Commerce

Transit Wire posts links to transit social networking sites
Transit Wire

Ventura County Transportation Buses to take Labor Day off
Ventura County Star

Who owns transit data?
Cnet