Today's Headlines - more at Metro

8/28/2007

Transportation Headlines for Tuesday August 28, 2007

$60 million OKd for railroad crossing upgrades in O.C. - The 53 crossings, including 16 in Orange, will allow cities to become 'quiet zones,' where train horns won't be sounded
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-octa28aug28,1,5618768.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Los Angeles Times

6 Injured When Truck, Blue Line Train Collide
http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_239230635.html
CBS 2 TV

Air quality gizmos - Smog busters take to the road
http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_6737036
San Bernardino Sun

AV bridge rates as structurally deficient
http://www.avpress.com/n/27/0827_s9.hts
Antelope Valley Press

Fly friendly skies elsewhere
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/opinions/ci_6733788
Whittier Daily News

L.A. LIVE seeks to make downtown new Times Square - New downtown project will try to liven the area, but it might leave most Angelenos with nothing to do
http://tinyurl.com/34ft8j
USC Daily Trojan

MTA Tests Supersized 100-Passenger Bus
http://www.knbc.com/traffic/13985815/detail.html?rss=la&psp=news#
NBC 4 TV

Nation's longest bus debuts in Valley - 100 can ride new Orange Line behemoth
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_6735772
Daily News

New LAX runway safety breach - The FAA is probing an incident Saturday in which two Boeing 737s passed close to each other on the north airfield
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lax28aug28,1,1754403.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Los Angeles Times

Rails weaved through SB Valley
http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_6736909
San Bernardino Sun

Shanghai's booming subway
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-transit25aug25,0,5699726.story?coll=la-home-center
Los Angeles Times

'Supersized Bus' Starts Operation On Orange Line
http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_239162919.html
CBS 2 TV

Teen drivers may lose phone privileges - With or without a hands-free device, people under 18 would be barred from using cell phones under Assembly bill
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/regstate/articles/9415641.html
Daily Breeze