Today's Headlines - more at Metro

7/28/2007

Transportation Headlines for Saturday July 28, 2007

210 Freeway Opens With Cheers & Jeers
http://www.blackvoicenews.com/content/view/41092/4/
Black Voice News

APTA Applauds Congress for Action on Transit Security
http://tinyurl.com/32j6qe
American Public Transportation Association

Bringing ‘Ugly’ Back - Why an architectural free-for-all no longer works in a dense, gridlocked city
http://www.latimes.com/features/magazine/west/la-tm-space25jul29141916,0,1675274.story?coll=la-home-middleright
Los Angeles Times

California's new diesel emission standards are toughest in nation - Air quality board's ruling will raise the bar of pollution controls for off-highway vehicles
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/regstate/articles/8756762.html
Daily Breeze

Caltrans' Randell Iwasaki Named to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Advisory Committee
http://tinyurl.com/ythlx2
Business Wire

First Residential Adaptive Reuse Project in Downtown LA's Fashion District Sold Out
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,148060.shtml
Earthtimes

Heavy Load - The ports say they have a plan for cleaner, safer trucks. But do they have a plan for the truckers?
http://www.laweekly.com/general/features/a-heavy-load/16876/
L.A. Weekly

House Won't Cut Amtrak Subsidies
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/24/ap3946663.html
Forbes

McKeon Touting Half Million For Cross Valley Connector
http://www.hometownstation.com/mckeon-clarita-roads-2007-07-27-10-20-4.html
KHTS 1220 AM

MTA driver thrown from bus, killed - He apparently wasn't wearing a seat belt when the vehicle was broadsided in an intersection, authorities said
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-driver28jul28,1,5783299.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Los Angeles Times

Neighborhood Project: Van Nuys
http://laist.com/2007/07/27/neighborhood_pr_7.php
LAist

Pasadena's 'green fleet' is growing
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_6440455
Pasadena Star News

Port strike averted
http://www.presstelegram.com/opinions/ci_6473647
Press Telegram

We're trashing our freeways - Motorists' rubbish increases nearly 30 percent; Caltrans' costs jump
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_6482894
Daily News