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3/01/2006

Transportation Headlines for Wednesday March 1, 2006

Burke Confirms the Rumors: She Plans to Retire: One of L.A.'s first black politicians, the supervisor is ready to move on
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-burke1mar01,0,4044940,full.story?coll=la-home-local
Los Angeles Times

Bus rules L.A. transit
http://www.metronews.ca/column_in_transit.asp?id=14312&cid=634
Metro News Canada

California legislators want truck-only toll roads
http://www.etrucker.com/apps/news/article.asp?id=51968
E Trucker

Evolution of Transportation: How data management can ensure you don’t miss the bus!
http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/2425?jsessionid=bebf8833ff05ba0b760bdea3ae982584
B Eye Network

Field Poll: Public Works Projects Backed – Governor’s bond plan draws more support than he does
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/14223757p-15048701c.html
Sacramento Bee

Governor steers road plan in his favor: Decisions on state highway projects used to be made by a commission composed of engineers. Gray Davis and others politicized the process and now Gov. Schwarzenegger is doing the same
http://www.dailybreeze.com/opinion/articles/2381286.html
Daily Breeze/Sacramento Bee

L.A.'s road rage needs a bus fix, not a subway
http://www.dailynews.com/theiropinion/ci_3555315
Los Angeles Daily News

MTA Bus Collides with Train
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=3948613
ABC 7 TV

Passenger Transported To Hospital After Train Strikes MTA Bus
http://www.nbc4.tv/traffic/7538420/detail.html?rss=la&psp=news
NBC 4 TV

State of our roads (State Bond)
http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060228/NEWS10/602280341/1024
Desert Sun

Train Strikes MTA Bus
http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_059084200.html
CBS 2 TV

Voters like governor's $68 billion bond plan: Job performance rating still down, latest survey shows
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/01/BAG51HG9SA1.DTL
San Francisco Chronicle