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6/12/2008

Transportation Headlines for Thursday June 12, 2008

Are your websites ready for prime time?
http://stevehirano.typepad.com/blog/2008/06/are-your-websites-ready-for-prime-time.html
Buses, Trains & the Media

$757 million port plan draws praise, flak
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_9558646
Press Telegram

AC Transit to pitch $48 property tax
http://www.contracostatimes.com/traffic/ci_9544694?nclick_check=1
Contra Costa Times

AC Transit urges tax hike to fund bus service
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/12/BA89117LOO.DTL
San Francisco Chronicle

Alarcon's daughter re-appointed to Transportation Commission
http://www.dailynews.com/search/ci_9541716?IADID=Search-www.dailynews.com-www.dailynews.com
Daily News

Amtrak’s Coast Starlight train classes up its act
http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/amtraks-coast-starli-2029/
Los Angeles Times

Businesses Back Transit Tax
http://railriders.la/2008/06/11/businesses-back-transit-tax/
Rail Riders Union

City Council rejects Greyhound bus terminal
http://tinyurl.com/4pkcrs
Press Enterprise

Delayed projects offer chance to plan for growth
http://www.dailynews.com/opinions/ci_9544509
Daily News

Editorial: High-speed rail bill is back, but answers are needed before November
http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/1003976.html
Sacramento Bee

Federal funding coming to March Inland Port
http://www.dailybulletin.com/breakingnews/ci_9553074
Daily Bulletin

Fontana, transportation agency to design reconstruction of two bridges over I-10
http://tinyurl.com/3fprrj
Press Telegram

Freeway signs get smart
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/bottleneck/2008/06/more-freeway-si.html
Bottleneck Blog

General Motors and Clean Energy Working to Expand Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure - Hydrogen Station to Open Near LAX
http://tinyurl.com/4q9k9g
Business Wire

Green guru, who led London’s gridlock-fee plan, speaks at MIT
http://www.bostonherald.com/business/automotive/view.bg?articleid=1099788
Boston Herald

Heritage Foundation gets it all wrong
http://trains4america.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/heritage-foundation-gets-it-all-wrong/
TrainsForAmerica

House overwhelmingly passes Amtrak funding bill
http://tinyurl.com/3m7dzl
AP

How Bad Is the Oil Shock of 2008?
http://seekingalpha.com/article/80344-how-bad-is-the-oil-shock-of-2008?source=yahoo
SeekingAlpha

Jampacked transit systems running on fumes - Underfunded buses, subways, trains strand some passengers by the wayside
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25010939/
MSNBC

Los Angeles business leaders interested in tax hike for roads, transit - Members of the L.A. business and labor communities say they may back a sales tax to reduce gridlock
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-roadsage12-2008jun12,0,1065999.column
Los Angeles Times

Mass transit surge: Most riders since 1957 - As gasoline prices rise above $4 a gallon, more Americans are turning to mass transportation systems
http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/11/news/mass_transit/?postversion=2008061112
CNN Money

Metro TweetWatch: Gas is Expensive!
http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/11/metro-tweetwatch-gas-is-expensive/
MetBlogsLA

Model Imagines a Sustainable Downtown
http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/11/model-imagines-a-sustainable-downtown/
StreetsBlogLA

New Yorkers Can Now Find the Best Bike Routes Online
http://www.planetizen.com/node/33427&rf=rss
Planetizen

No gas price relief in sight - $4-plus seen as likely to be average through 2009
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_9557358
Daily News

OCTA looking for solutions to gas prices
http://www.dailypilot.com/articles/2008/06/11/business/dpt-octa061108.txt
Daily Pilot

Oil prices on the upswing again
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-oil11-2008jun12,0,7128245.story
Los Angeles Times

Omnitrans pushes bus use
http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_9545812
Daily Bulletin

Rural U.S. Takes Worst Hit as Gas Tops $4 Average
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/business/09gas.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
New York Times

Sales Tax Increase Gains Support
http://tinyurl.com/6ch88y
San Fernando Business Journal

Senate Nixes Solar Tax Credits
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1744/
EcoGeek

The streetcars
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2008/06/the-streetcars.html
LA Times/Daily Mirror

T.O. shuttle adds third day, moves pick-up site - Goebel Center more familiar to residents, city official says
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jun/11/to-shuttle-adds-third-day-moves-pick-up-site/
Ventura County Star

Wanna save $2 a gallon?
http://www.presstelegram.com/opinions/ci_9544774
Press Telegram

Welcome to the Livable Streets Network
http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/11/welcome-to-the-livable-streets-network/
StreetsBlogLA

We will have our bonds, and therefore speak no more
http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2008/06/we-will-have-ou.html
Los Angeles Times

Video from the Library & Archive
Metropolitan Coach Lines (1953-1958) Television Commercial 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF24IFcSUM8
Metropolitan Coach Lines (1953-1958) Television Commercial 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duZYGBHe4d8