Average gas price tops $4 a gallon in San Francisco
The city becomes the first in the mainland U.S. to cross that threshold.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gasprice28apr28,1,5213045.story
Los Angeles Times
Cities rallying for 60 Freeway route (Metro Gold Line)
http://www.sgvtribune.com/ci_9079339?source=rss
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Coast Rail Coordinating Council Meeting Report
http://www.railpac.org/2008/04/27/coast-rail-coordinating-council-meeting-report-4/
Rail Passenger Association of California & Nevada
Criminal trial to begin in deadly 2005 Metrolink train crash
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-metrolink28apr28,1,7350535.story
Los Angeles Times
Metro Westside Extension – Facebook Group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10040701921
Facebook
National Train Day May 10 - Join Amtrak, the CCJPA, NARP,and RailPAC in celebrating National Train
http://www.railpac.org/2008/04/23/national-train-day-may-10-2/
Rail Passenger Association of California and Nevada
Providers not on board with Wi-Fi in L.A.
Metro, city face a dearth of willing partners for tech ventures
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_9079041?source=rss
Daily Breeze
Purple Surfliner to Indio
http://www.railpac.org/2008/04/26/a-purple-surfliner-to-indio/
Rail Passenger Association of California and Nevada
Recentralization Around the Northern LA Basin
http://takethemetro.blogspot.com/2008/04/recentralization-around-northern-la.html
Ditch the Car, Take the Metro
Rediscovering East L.A.'s core: The new East LA Civic Center features pubic artwork, including Michael Amescua's towering steel sculpture - Latino artists help revamp a place where the community (and freeways) intersects (Metro Gold Line)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-et-culture26apr26,1,4345256.story
Los Angeles Times
Revving Up for Electric: A Culver City-Based Company Converts Gas Cars to Electric
http://www.westsidetoday.com/article.php?articleid=572&edition=1&adsection=0
Westside Today
Road Sage - Widening U.S. 395 in the Eastern Sierra could be a lifesaver
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-roadsage28apr28,1,4047221.column
Los Angeles Times
Trial to start in deadly Glendale train wreck
http://www.dailynews.com/breakingnews/ci_9081216
Daily News
Van Nuys Airport Marks 80th Birthday With Aviation Community Day - Event Gives the Public an Insider's Look at the World of General Aviation
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=848794
Marketwire
Whose Line is it Anyway? Cramming Five Railroads Into Area Barely Big Enough for Two, a “Stretch!” in California
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2008/04/whose_line_is_i.html
California Progress Report
Transit Video/Film from the Library’s Archive:
In honor of Shirley Temple’s 80th Birthday:
Shirley Temple Inaugurates a New Los Angeles Railway Streetcar – filmed during Transit Week 1937 with Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2cwcnTyR2E
