January 7, 2008 — January 13, 2008
Sunday, January 13, 2008
- State's budget crisis curtails legislators' agendas - With money short, little major legislation is expected in Sacramento
Los Angeles Times - P3s improve quality of life in California
Daily Bulletin
Saturday, January 12, 2008
- Overview of "It's Time to Move LA"
StreetHeatLA - It's Time to Move LA!
Flickr - Free Transit For All?
World Changing - Highway Panel to Seek Higher Gas Tax
Wall Street Journal - Is a Higher Sales Tax the Answer to Help Relieve Traffic in LA?
FOX News - Sales Tax Hike could fund Subway to Sea
West Ranch Beacon - You can make it happen (transit sales tax)
AboutLosAngeles
Friday, January 11, 2008
- Hunting a $60 billion transit solution
Daily Breeze - Federal panel could recommend fuel tax increase
Land Line - L.A. County looks for transportation funding
Daily Bulletin - On the Fast Track - Area politicians and Gold Line officials are fighting to get to the end of the line
Pasadena Weekly - Possible sales-tax hike for transit services (includes ABC’s own poll)
ABC 7 TV - Sales tax hike could fund subway to sea - L.A. County voters may decide on the half-cent increase in November's election
Los Angeles Times - Subway tax?
Los Angeles Times/Bottleneck Blog - Voters Back Sales Tax Hike
Boi from Troy
Thursday, January 10, 2008
- Mayor Villaraigosa says It’s Time to Move L.A.
KFI-640 AM - Deep cuts, closures across the state at heart of budget plan - Beaches, parks, schools and prisons would be hit. Some think the governor's proposal is a ruse to get a tax hike
Los Angeles Times - Gov. Schwarzenegger’s Latest Blockbuster Not "T-3" - Introducing "P3" Public Private Partnerships (High Desert Corridor)
Victorville Daily Press - Sales tax hike eyed by Metro
Daily News - State of the State: Here Come Public-Private Partnerships
StreetHeatLA - The Smog Propagandist - Too bad for our health that Joe Coto gets less press than Bill Burke
L.A. City Beat - UCLA faculty experts advisory: transportation and public transit
University of California at Los Angeles - U.S. Panel May Push 40-Cent Gas-Tax Rise
Bloomberg
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
- Governor's budget idea gets cold response
Daily News - Mystery of the Green Line
Daily Breeze - Partnering to build a new California
San Francisco Chronicle - Paying for that subway...
Los Angeles Times/Bottleneck Blog - Report to Congress on the Costs, Benefits and Efficiencies of Public-Private Partnerships for Fixed Guideway Capital Projects
Transportation Research Board - We can't afford Proposition 13 anymore
Los Angeles Times - 'Wolf is back' at state budget door - The governor lays out his plan to pare a $14-billion shortfall. The key is a constitutional amendment to impose a spending cap
Los Angeles Times - Why Green Line stopped short of LAX
Daily News
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
- A Few Choice Words from a Grassroots Advocate: Dear Metro Board
CityWatchLA - Frank Gruber: What I say - And if Denny Zane is 60? Efforts of Santa Monica's former mayor to identify and tap into funding sources for building the Purple Line Subway (all the way to the Sea, we hope) and other L.A. County transportation projects
Santa Monica Surf/Lookout News - How to Pay for L.A. Subway
Boi from Troy - Proposition 91 - Preserving Transportation Funding
Foothill Cities Blog - SoCal polution improves, yet still high risk for cancer
Victorville Daily Press - SoCATA Backs Prop 91
StreetHeatLA
Monday, January 7, 2008
- $50 billion cost a potential barrier to traffic solutions
Daily News - Amid budget gap, 'fantastic' ideas joust with fiscal reality
Los Angeles Times - State's budget outlook is grim - STATE: Looming $14B deficit expected to dampen reforms and stir spending debate between Schwarzenegger, Republicans
Press Telegram