Today's Headlines - more at Metro

8/20/2008

Transportation Headlines for Wednesday August 20, 2008

2008 Bus Rapid Transit Vehicle Demand and Systems Analysis Update
Transportation Research Board

Around the transpo-sphere: congestion pricing, hybrids and speed cameras
Bottleneck Blog

AltCar Expo, One of Nation's Largest Displays of Alternative Fuel Vehicles, Frees Consumers from Gas Guzzlers
StreetInsider

Bay Area transit agencies start idea-swap forum
SF Business Times

Bus alerts join RTA's high-tech embrace
Valley Chronicle

Bus schedule texting so popular it will be extended countywide
Exeter Express & Echo

Cheaper gas offers limited relief to Inland drivers
Press Enterprise

CHP, Caltrans dedicate HOV lanes in Newhall Pass
Santa Clarita Signal

Driven to ride - Amtrak patronage hits a record in the Valley and the nation
Fresno Bee

Foothill Transit to Legislature: We need money
Bottleneck Blog

Gag order against MIT students dissolved by judge - Three MIT students freed to publicly discuss security flaws they found in MBTA's systems
ComputerWorld

Joint UCLA–USC study shows that toll roads are more fair than taxes
UCLA

Just What Makes a Widening?
BlogDowntown

Lawmaker Calls For Louder Hybrid Vehicles
KNBC 4 TV

Locals Fret About Proposed Stoplight on Silver Lake Boulevard
CurbedLA

Los Angeles bicycle master plan is being updated
LAEastside

Omnitrans offering free bus passes to S.B. County college students
Press Enterprise

Pasadena Walkabout Report: Better Streets Need Slower Traffic
StreetsBlogLA

Picking our poison
Pasadena Star News

Port of Long Beach's clean-trucks loan program is criticized - The plan to replace old, polluting rigs with cleaner ones will put low-income drivers deep in debt, a coalition of groups says
Los Angeles Times

Roads, Rails and Transit: Obama-McCain Contrasts
CitiWire

Santa Monica Traffic Initiative is Now Prop T
LAist

Schwarzenegger's push to hike sales tax riles GOP - The governor says a temporary increase could help close the budget gap. But his party's leaders want to borrow
Los Angeles Times

State Senate sends bills on guns, traffic and bandit taxis to Schwarzenegger
Los Angeles Times

Study finds congestion pricing doesn't hurt the poor
Bottleneck Blog

Tunneling nearly complete for Inland Empire water project
Los Angeles Times

What's on the Mayor's Mind (audio file)
KPCC 89.3 FM/Pat Morrison

Who says we can drive less?
GreenSpace