Today's Headlines - more at Metro

5/15/2008

Transportation Healdlines for Thursday May 15, 2008

710 tunnel issues
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/opinions/ci_9262558
Pasadena Star News

A Rough Ride - Bicyclists complain that City Hall shoves them off the road
http://www.lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/a_rough_ride/7029/
LA City Beat

Effort to cut diesel pollution
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/15/MNOD10MDCV.DTL
San Francisco Chronicle

Getting Buses to Crawl a Little Faster; A Los Angeles Program May Have Something to Teach New York
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E5DF133FF933A05750C0A9639C8B63 New York Times

Gold for highways, pennies for public transportation
http://artvoice.com/issues/v7n20/the_oil_crossroads
ArtVoice

Governor's Transportation budget will hit public transit
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/15/MN7H10MF1I.DTL
San Francisco Chronicle

Flashing lights pay off for transit agency
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2008/05/14/flashing_lights_pay_off_for_transit_agency/9994/ UPI

Import dip is disappointing, economist says - PORTS: Despite the setbacks in 2007, improvement is expected in 2009, with exports seen as a `huge opportunity
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_9263981
Press Telegram

John Walsh, Chris Shabel and Miki Jackson - Hollywood gadflies
http://www.laweekly.com/special/la-people-2008/john-walsh-chris-shabel-and-miki-jackson/18885/
LA Weekly

Live internet chat May 21: Join Metro Board Chair O'Connor in Imagining a More Mobile Region http://www.metro.net/news_info/press/Metro_070.htm
and
http://www.metro.net/news_info/livechat.htmLos Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

LRT News: April 2008 Edition
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/lrtnews/LRTv20n1.pdf
Transportation Research Board

Metro Unveils Alternatives for Future Subway Routes
http://www.parklabreanewsbeverlypress.com/Issues/5.8%20issue.pdf
Beverly Press/Park La Brea News (See Page 1 and 22)

MTA displays ads in tunnels
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/me-tunnelads15-2008-may15,0,6367311.story
Los Angeles Times

MTA narrows transit options
http://www.smdp.com/site/archives/051208.pdf
Santa Monica Daily Press (See Page 1 and 10)

New Schwarzenegger budget for California would divert gas taxes
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-budget15-2008may15,0,5652117.story
Los Angeles Times

Oh the Places You'll Go! (Train travel series)
http://www.lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/oh_the_places_you_ll_go/7032/-1/
LA City Beat

Ports Expected to Keep Growing
http://snipurl.com/28z6d
LA Business Journal

Sempra completes LNG terminal in Baja http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080515/news_1n15lng.html
San Diego Union Tribune

Streetcar Workshops Come to Los Angeles Next Week
http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/05/15/streetcar-workshops-come-to-los-angeles-next-week/
StreetsBlogLA

The Cruel Desert Wind Hoax - Rescuing Amtrak from a journey to oblivion
http://www.lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/oh_the_places_you_ll_go/7032/5/
LA City Beat

The Free Way (Miller Free Way Act)
http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/the_free_way/5960/
Pasadena Weekly

Travel through port's history with new book
http://www.presstelegram.com/ci_9263984
Press Telegram

Video: Residents Give Ideas about MTA "Subway to the Sea" possibility
http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/video/ktla-video-metro-santamonica,0,296026.htmlstory
KTLA 5 TV

What should be done to ease traffic between O.C. and L.A.?
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_2042337.php
Orange County Register