April 21, 2008 — April 27, 2008
Sunday, April 27, 2008
- Local gas prices set another record
Daily Breeze
Saturday, April 26, 2008
- LA MTA board mulls additional transportation sales tax
Progressive Railroading - Metro Board Takes Step Toward Putting New Transportation Sales Tax on November Ballot
Metro Imagine - Metro will set funding priorities
Daily News - MTA to seek half-cent tax - TRANSIT: Board is asking for suggested uses of the expected $700 million
Press Telegram - MTA board will get long-range mobility plan in June
Wave Newspapers
Friday, April 25, 2008
- 'Bring it east!' - Extension of Gold Line gets support
San Gabriel Valley Tribune - Comments on the Metro 2008 Draft Long Range Transportation Plan
MetroRiderLA - Inland Valley the missing link - Funding for extending light rail to the Inland Valley must be made a priority
Daily Bulletin - Metro Playing For Keeps
Curbed LA - Metro Rejects Service Cuts, Approves Congestion Pricing and Much, Much More
StreetsBlogLA - Metro update meeting May 8th on Westside Transit Corridor study
The Argonaut - Price at one pump - $5.26 a gallon
Daily Bulletin - Signatures In for “Anti-Traffic” Initiative
Santa Monica Surf/Lookout News - Villaraigosa Seeks Public-Private Financing For Subway Extension
KNBC 4 TV
Thursday, April 24, 2008
- 10,000 signatures vs. "out of control" traffic
Los Angeles Times/LA Now - Even with L.A.'s budget crisis, drivers must still turn left
Los Angeles Times/Bottleneck Blog - Smog Panel urges EPA to keep weighing the value of human life in setting pollution rules
Los Angeles Times - Stand up, be counted (Metro Gold Line)
Pasadena Star News
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
- Angelenos are learning to go Metro
CSUN Daily Sundial - Earth Day: have you cultivated environmentalists as transit advocates?
Permanent Campaigns - Every Day is Earth Day When You Take Transit
Commuter Page - “Getting California on Track: Seven Strategies to Reduce Global Warming Pollution from Transportation” is Our Site of the Day
California Progress Report (full report)
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
- Oil prices spike to record above $117
Monterey Herald - Road Sage - A public transit system that's a slow-go
Los Angeles Times