Today's Headlines - more at Metro

1/25/2007

Transportation Headlines for Wednesday Jan. 24, 2007

22 Freeway project hits more bumps: Some at OCTA want a larger fine if the contractor misses another deadline on 22
http://snipurl.com/187fx
Orange County Register

Airport Commissioners Adopt "Green" Building Policy Standards
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=206304
Market Wire

AQMD: Natural gas will foul air
http://snipurl.com/188f1
Press Enterprise

Amtrak CEO calls for public money for rail capacity
http://snipurl.com/187gq
San Diego Union Tribune

Amtrak chief: Railroad needs image boost
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8MR5J581.htm
Business Week

Blundering MTA - Re "MTA could provide 240 more spaces" (Jan. 18):
http://www.dailynews.com/youropinion/ci_5071585
Daily News

Builder: Sprinter will be finished on time, despite predictions
http://snipurl.com/187fq
North County Times/Californian

City Seeking $55 Million for 11 Transit Projects
http://snipurl.com/187g6
Santa Clarita Signal

Driverless bus: Who wants to be first?
http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/01/23/driverless_bus.html
SciFi

FBI Arrests Subway Mercury Spill Suspect
http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_023192051.html
CBS 2 TV

FBI Questions Man In Mercury Spill Investigation
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/10827466/detail.html?rss=la&psp=news
NBC 4 TV

Man dies in train-car crash
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_5071323
Whittier Daily News

N.J. Transit Proposes 10 Percent Fare Increase
http://snipurl.com/187gd
New York Times

Rebirth of Angels Flight: Six years after it was closed following a fatal crash, downtown L.A.'s landmark railway is slated to reopen
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-angels24jan24,0,524226.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Los Angeles Times

Regulators sue state over 'hot gas': AQMD complains that a Public Utilities Commission policy would allow the import of a natural gas that will increase smog.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/regstate/articles/5332301.html
Daily Breeze

Report: Ground rules needed for bonds
http://snipurl.com/187fv
North County Times/Californian

Right on Westside Gridlock
http://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the_lookout/letters/Letters-2007/January-2007/01_23_07_Right_on_Westside_Gridlock.htm
Santa Monica Surf

Transient held in MTA mercury spill: Authorities say the man told them he found it in trash on the Westside and hoped to sell it for money to buy drugs
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mercury24jan24,1,956833,full.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Los Angeles Times