Transportation Headlines for Thursday July 2, 2009

13 States Adopting California Clean Car Standards Would Reap Significant Economic And Environmental Benefits
Environmental Defense Fund

Administration Releases Their Principles For An 18-Month Transportation Bill
Transportation For America

The Best U.S. Transit Systems You Never Knew Existed
Grist

A Breakdown Of LA’s Stimulus Money Efforts
Public CEO

Court Rejects State Raids On Transit Funding
California Transit Association

Editorial: A Road Map Or A Road To Ruin? The House Committee On Transportation And Infrastructure Has Laid Out A $500 Billion Blueprint Of Highway, Bridge, Rail And Green Projects. The Problem Is, It Hasn’t Found A Way To Pay For It
Los Angeles Times

EPA Targets Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Near Freeways
Los Angeles Times

Glendale City Councilman Najarian Takes Over As Metro Board Chair
LA StreetsBlog

How To Convince A Conservative To Support Public Transportation
Infrastructurist

Metro’s New LRTP Boosts Bike/Ped Funding From 2008 Draft Levels
LA StreetsBlog

Obama Administration’s Transportation Goals: Read Them Here
LA StreetsBlog

Path Clears For Federal Support Of Fast Train To California: Transportation Chief Will Announce Key Designation For Las Vegas Route Today
Las Vegas Sun

Ride Report: Metro Line 632, The Gold Line Emulator
MetroRiderLA

Transit Authorities Testing Site For Future Gold Line Bridge
Pasadena Star-News

Unveiled: First American-Made Streetcar In 60 Years
Infrastructurist

Transportation Headlines for Wednesday July 1, 2009

$20 Billion Needed For Highway, Transit Projects (audio)
NPR

120 Days In, SGA Reviews The Stimulus Spending On Transportation
Smart Growth America

Bikers To Congress: Give Us Some Respect!
Wall Street Journal

Caltrans Working Hard To Speed Up Local Streets
LA StreetsBlog

City Celebrates Groundbreaking Of Bike Path Extension In Elysian Valley
LA StreetsBlog

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa To Be Sworn In At 11 a.m.
Los Angeles Daily News

The Metro Crash: A Nation’s Aging Transit System
Time

Measure R Sales Tax Hike Goes Into Effect Today
Los Angeles Times

MTA To Make Changes For Disabled Riders
KABC-TV

New Installment Of Open Source Transit Coming Next Week
MetroRiderLA

One Small, Green Rail Line Makes Peace At The Ports Of L.A. And Long Beach
Los Angeles Times

Our View: Voters Spoke, Now We Pay
Pasadena Star-News

Report: Transportation Stimulus Decisions Missed Golden Opportunities
PR Newswire

U.S. Must Boost Gas Tax, Transportation Expert Says: More Federal Money Needed For Aging Roads And Bridges
Baltimore Sun

Transportation Headlines for Tuesday June 30, 2009

Bigger Tax Burden Looms: Consumers, Business Owners Will Have To Pay 9.75 Percent In Los Angeles County
Los Angeles Daily News

City Considering New Locations For More Parking Meters
LAist

Harbor Area Neighborhood Councils Form Alliance
Daily Breeze

How Did The Senate’s 2008 Climate Bill Treat Transportation?
DC StreetsBlog

Late-Night Metrolink
Riding In Riverside

Long Beach Launches Bicycle Sharrows With a ‘Green Lane’
LAist

Metrorail Crash May Exemplify Automation Paradox
Washington Post

New Metro ‘Service Enhancements’ In Effect: Gold Line Bus, Rapid Line Canceled
LAist

Officials: El Monte Transit Project In Spotlight, But Still Viable
Pasadena Star-News

Opinion: Besides Rail, We Need Smart Transportation Technology
Silicon Valley Mercury News

Roads Less Traveled: States Spending On Roads, Not Public Transportation
Wall Street Journal

Transportation Safety Board ‘Calls It Like It Sees It’
NPR

West Coast Port Execs Hit DC To Lobby For Freight Funding
Cunningham Report

Who Owns Muni’s Arrival And Departure Times? That Depends On Whom You Ask
SF Weekly

Transportation Headlines for Monday June 29, 2009

BART, largest unions extend contracts to July 9
San Francisco Chronicle

Bay Area transit riders about to pay more
San Francisco Chronicle

California's hands-free cell phone law is increasingly being ignored
Mercury News

Cities prepare for court fight over state’s shift of local funds
Capitol Weekly

District of Columbia launches “Where’s My Bus?”
The Transit Wire

Do Shiny New Roads “Only Make Idiots More Dangerous”?
LA StreetsBlog

Good job, y’all! Rise in annual global CO2 emissions halved in 2008
Transport Gooru

HUD, DOT and EPA Announce Interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities
Smart Growth

New report coming Monday: 120 days into the stimulus
Smart Growth America
Full Report: http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/documents/120days.pdf

Officials: El Monte transit project in spotlight, but still viable
Pasadena Star News

Oil jumps above $70 on Nigerian platform attack
Pasadena Star News

Opinion: Besides rail, we need smart transportation technology
Mercury News

Republicans Highly Critical of House Energy Bill
New York Times

SCAG’s Ikhrata Prioritizes Land Use, Transportation Plans
The Planning Report

'Sharrows' promote road sharing in Belmont Shore
Press Telegram

West Coast ports fearing growing competition
News Tribune

Transportation Headlines for Sunday June 28, 2009

AnsaldoBreda offers to buy vacant Super Steel site
Daily Gazette

BART Looking at Vendors to Boost Revenues
Planetizen

Bicycle Use Surpasses Car Use in Amsterdam
Planetizen

Calif. to pay owners to scrap high-pollution cars
Pasadena Star News

Caltrans catches heat for meters
Crescenta Valley Sun

DesertXpress on right track? Critics say terminus in Victorville, route through national park could stymie LV rail proposal
Review Journal

Governor's last stand: his way or IOUs
Los Angeles Times

LA city forestalls layoffs through cost-cutting measures
Daily Breeze

Metrolink moves toward hiring its own train crews
Los Angeles Times

Overseas air traffic at LAX drops 20.3 percent in May
Daily Breeze

Teamsters Applaud Congress for Giving Transit Agencies Funding Flexibility
PRNewswire

Transit agency to get money for bays
Desert Sun

Transportation funds misdirected, analysis says
San Francisco Chronicle

Who Cares About Transportation?
Tolling Points

Who Should Build America's Rail System?
NewsWithViews

Will Oberstar’s Grand Highway Plan Stall?
CQ Politics