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7/10/2008

Transportation Headlines for Thursday July 10, 2008

110 freeway in Los Angeles may not be totally free for much longer
http://tinyurl.com/56uwh8
KFI 640 AM

$500k earmarked to study Westside traffic
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/07/500k-earmarked.html
LA Now

Bike Sales Skyrocket With Gas Prices
http://www.carectomy.com/index.php/Bikes/Bike-Sales-Skyrocket-With-Gas-Prices
Carectomy

BMW's Building an Electric Mini. You Can't Have One
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/07/bmws-building-a.html
Wired

Budget standoff: That's it for cuts, Dems say
http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/1072334.html
Sacramento Bee

California Finalizes High-Speed Train Route - Approval of Environmental Impact Report on Bay Area Route Clears Way for Voters to Determine Fate of Train in California
http://tinyurl.com/6cfl84
Market Watch

Cityhood backers launch signature drive (East Los Angeles)
http://tinyurl.com/68uw6x
Los Angeles Wave

City of South Pasadena to Present Second Annual Clean-Air Car Show & Film Festival
http://beaconmedianews.com/?p=578
Pasadena Cosmopolitan

City Hopes One-Way Is The Way To Reduce Traffic
http://cbs2.com/local/One.Way.Pico.2.767114.html
CBS 2 TV

CTA to attack bus-bunching with GPS, mobile supervisors
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-city-cta-daley-both-08jul09,0,5851371.story
Chicago Tribune

Do You Trust MTA With $40 billion? - Vast sums spent on West Coast mass transit haven't paid off. Now they want a tax
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/do-you-trust-mta-with-40-billion/19239/
L.A. Weekly

First route for California bullet trains approved
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0935892220080710
Reuters

Freeway connector to close for repairs in Riverside
http://tinyurl.com/5bvuto
Desert Sun

Google Transit for Metro?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/bottleneck/2008/07/google-transit.html
Bottleneck Blog

Guerrilla gardeners dig in to beautify Los Angeles streets
http://tinyurl.com/55mzbl
Ventura County Star

Jury Views Rail Cars Involved In Deadly Metrolink Derailment
http://www.knbc.com/news/16829276/detail.html?rss=la&psp=news
KNBC 4 TV

Long Beach port buys 300 new trucks for $35 million
http://tinyurl.com/6qptza
Land Line

Mercedes to cut petroleum out of lineup by 2015
http://green.yahoo.com/blog/ecogeek/603/mercedes-to-cut-petroleum-out-of-lineup-by-2015.html
EcoGeek

Metro’s VanPool Program Might Be L.A.’s Saving Grace
http://tinyurl.com/6xexn7
LA Cityzine

New Mayor Could Weaken London Congestion Charge
http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/07/09/new-mayor-could-weaken-london-congestion-charge/
StreetsBlog

On the subway with Zev
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/bottleneck/2008/07/on-the-subway-w.html
Bottleneck Blog

Santa Monica: The Gridlock Wars Are Here - The city is an inaccessible moat
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/santa-monica-the-gridlock-wars-are-here/19242/
L.A. Weekly

Senate Appropriators Take on Highway Trust Fund Shortfall
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=cqmidday-000002913162
Congressional Quarterly

Study: Highways Don’t Pay for Themselves
http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/07/09/study-highways-dont-pay-for-themselves/
Streetsblog LA

Take back L.A.
http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/take_back_la_20080709/
The Jewish Journal

Valley's Orange Line has appeal
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_9833361
Daily News

Valuing Transit Service Quality Improvements
http://www.nctr.usf.edu/abstracts/jptv11n2Litman.htm
Journal of Public Transportation

Why trust MTA with more cash?
http://www.dailynews.com/editorial/ci_9822096
Daily News