Today’s Headlines
Republican Senator from Missouri Wants to Kill High Speed Rail Stim Funding (CHSRB) APTA Urges Congress to Provide $15 Billion in Stim Money for Public Transit (Progressive Railroading) Building Mass-Transit Infrastructure Would Lift the Country Out of Recession (The Nation via Planetizen) Anti-Environmental Legislators Make Some Outrageous State Budget Demands (Ca Progress Report) More About … Continued
By
Bryan Goebel
9:58 AM PST on February 5, 2009
- Republican Senator from Missouri Wants to Kill High Speed Rail Stim Funding (CHSRB)
- APTA Urges Congress to Provide $15 Billion in Stim Money for Public Transit (Progressive Railroading)
- Building Mass-Transit Infrastructure Would Lift the Country Out of Recession (The Nation via Planetizen)
- Anti-Environmental Legislators Make Some Outrageous State Budget Demands (Ca Progress Report)
- More About Bikes on Caltrain and Today’s Board Meeting (SF Examiner)
- NTSB to Investigate This Week’s BART Collison (SF Gate)
- Committee Delays Action on Adding More School Crossing Guards in San Jose (Merc)
- Tagged Ads Featuring Supervisor Bevan Dufty Moved From Some Muni Stations (BAR)
- Schlage Lock Site Gets Okay for Redevelopment (Transbay Blog)
- Santa Cruz Shows Off Its Bicycle Design Creativity in New Exhibit (Merc)
Bryan Goebel is a reporter at KQED Public Radio in San Francisco. A veteran journalist and writer, he helped launch Streetsblog SF in 2009 and served as editor for three years. He lives car-free in the Castro District.
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