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12/12/2008

Transportation Headlines for Friday December 12, 2008

Airline-Infrastructure Aid Chorus Grows
The Street

Caution: Work projects ahead: The government is set to spend hundreds of billions on energy, roads, railways and community development projects. Here's how to get stuff we actually want
CNN Money

Chatsworth crash's roots lie 20 years in Metrolink's past
Los Angeles Times

City of L.A. preps a list of projects for Obama
Los Angeles Times

Count Riverside County in, officials say: Agencies are studying options for extending [high-speed rail] service from LA, maybe through Riverside County
Riverside Press-Enterprise

Duke University professor says traffic signs are a big threat to traffic safety in the U.S.
Birmingham News

Emirates Airline Launches San Francisco Service with World's Longest Green Flight Trial
MarketWatch

Los Angeles receives $210 million in federal funds to ease traffic jams
Los Angeles Times

New interstate road map takes shape for bicyclists
USA Today

The right way to spend billions on infrastructure
Reuters

S.F. port leases space far below market rate
San Francisco Chronicle

Some L.A. freeway carpool lanes will become toll lanes
Daily Breeze

State grant OK'd to build bikeway across county
Woodland Daily Democrat

US Sec Mary Peters calls for end to cash tolling by 2014, discussion of $-crisis at IBTTA
Tollroads News

US Sen Baucus Wants Transit Aid Cut From Auto Bailout Bill
CNN Money

Voter-OK'd funds to increase Metrolink safety
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

Why Is Transit Ridership Still Strong?
Sightline Daily