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4/19/2006

Transportation Headlines for Wednesday April 19, 2006

Accord near on state bond, top lawmakers say
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/19/BAGIPIBC0I1.DTL
San Francisco Chronicle

Board to consider new Measure D plan (Santa Barbara County transit sales tax)
http://www.lompocrecord.com/articles/2006/04/18/news/news02.txt
Lompoc Record

Commuting solution may be uplifting (monorails)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/04/18/opinion/strickland/41706192451.txt
Californian/North County Times

Designs Standards Proposed for Toll Plazas
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-toll-plaza-crashes,1,6442503.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines
Los Angeles Times

Florida Looks At Rental Car Tax to Pay for More Transit Projects
http://www.masstransitmag.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=3&id=595
Mass Transit

Full Text of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's State of the City address
http://www.presstelegram.com/ci_3724291
Press Telegram

Gas prices soar – again: You may be paying $3.25 a gallon by Memorial Day.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/business/story/14245045p-15063351c.html
Sacramento Bee

Leaders say deal near on bonds: Democrats drop urban parks, natural resources in exchange for GOP losing water storage
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/14244930p-15063293c.html
Sacramento Bee

Lessons from Hiawatha's First-Year Success Story
http://www.metro-magazine.com/t_featpick.cfm?id=90509628
Metro Magazine

Making Public Highways Private (Requires paid subscription)
http://snipurl.com/pec6
Wall Street Journal (April 17 edition)

Mass Transit Industry Embraces Video Surveillance Technology
http://www.masstransitmag.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=5&id=547
Mass Transit

Undoing a Generation of Driver Shortages (bus operators)
http://www.metro-magazine.com/t_featpick.cfm?id=90509636
Metro Magazine