Today's Headlines - more at Metro

5/24/2009

Transportation Headlines for Sunday May 24, 2009

Dan Walters: Constitutional convention may be Cailfornia's only hope
Sacramento Bee

L.A. THEN AND NOW - Business still booming for an old railway restaurant
Los Angeles Times

L.A. River Causes Bad Grades Along Coast
Grunion Gazette

Metro Gold Line Eastside Light Rail Extension Safety (video)
YouTube/Metro Library

Omni to Straphangers: No Barbecue for You!
Riding in Riverside

Rail Company Could Come to Manufacturing Site
LA Downtown News

Rating R - Experts Find That $40 Billion Transit Tax May Not Pay for All They Hoped
LA Downtown News

REGION: SANDAG adopts $1 billion budget - $73.4 million set aside for Highway 76 widening
North County Times/Californian

Slicing up California's budget pie - Leaders in the fields of education, health and human services, and corrections explain how they would make necessary, but painful, cuts
Los Angeles Times

State in search of a leader - Eli Broad and Peter Ueberroth know it's true: California has no one taking charge
Los Angeles Times

State policies work against good fiscal management - Five recommendations could help, including updating the tax structure, ending the two-thirds majority rule, reigning in initiatives, building a serious rainy day fund and getting real oversight
Los Angeles Times

Supply up, demand down, but oil prices rise - Recessions usually bring cheap oil and gasoline. But not now. And that has analysts worried that another fuel-price spike could be on the way
San Francisco Chronicle

WA-CA HSR?
Orphan Road