Today's Headlines - more at Metro

1/16/2008

Transportation Headlines for Wednesday January 16, 2008

Angelenos unhappy with project - One-way traffic flow plan faces opposition
http://snipurl.com/1xj8q
Santa Monica Daily Press

APTA Supports Majority Report of Commission and Rejects Minority View that Fails to Continue Federal Investment in Public Transportation
http://www.apta.com/media/releases/080115_commission_report.cfm
American Public Transportation Association

Blythe City seeks Prop 1B funding to keep rail line open
http://snipurl.com/1xk1x
Quartzite News

Catalina Express halts L.B. service - Temporary move to San Pedro will allow for dredging of silt-blocked waterway
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_7982119
Press Telegram

Drivers see all manner of bad manners
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/highway1/la-hy-wheels16jan16,0,859178.story?coll=la-news-highway_1
Los Angeles Times

Metrolink pushes to extend into Perris, Moreno Valley
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/bottleneck/2008/01/little-train-th.html
Los Angeles Times/Bottleneck Blog

Montclair Planning Commission approves townhome project for downtown (Gold Line Foothill Extension, Metrolink)
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_7981869
Daily Bulletin

New Report Validates Need for Increased Transportation Funding
http://snipurl.com/1xj63
Yahoo! News

Nissan exec: Car culture is fading - Worldwide, people are losing interest in automobiles
http://snipurl.com/1xj6b
Fortune

Rotary uproar - Residents demand airport change flight pattern of copters
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_7982801
Pasadena Star News

San Jacinto Valley commuters will get new service to Riverside, Escondido
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_H_bus16.3380eee.html
Press Enterprise

Schwarzenegger backs O.C. tollway - Formerly neutral, he now urges the Coastal Commission to approve the Foothill South, which would run through San Onofre State Beach
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tollway16jan16,1,5233753.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Los Angeles Times

Secretary Peters Rejects Call for Massive Gas Tax Increase and New Federal Transportation Bureaucracy
http://www.dot.gov/affairs/dot0608.htm
U.S Department of Transportation

State rail safety role questioned - Metrolink tells judges that California doesn't have the authority to determine if the transit service was partly to blame for crash deaths
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-metrolink16jan16,1,4073719.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Los Angeles Times

Surface Transportation Commission Releases Report
http://live.asce.org/blog/1/asce/?permalink=Surface-Transportation-Commission-Releases-Report.html
American Society of Civil Engineers/Our Failing Infrastructure Blog

Top AASHTO Officials Respond to the Release of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission Report
http://www.transportation.org/news/91.aspx
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials

Transportation infrastructure: National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission releases findings to fix U.S. surface transportation systems
http://www.logisticsmgmt.com/article/CA6522887.html?industryid=48468
Logistics Management

U.S. Train Commuters Brace For Nationwide Amtrak Strike
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009727718
All Headline News

Westsiders Get Riled at Pico/Olympic Meeting
http://streetheatla.blogspot.com/2008/01/westsiders-get-riled-at-picoolympic.html
StreetHeatLA