Today’s Headlines
CBS5 Raises Questions About Police Costs for Critical Mass (Eye on Blogs) CHSRB Responds to Palo Alto Vice Mayor’s Call for Abolishment of High-Speed Rail Commish BART Moves Ahead with 20-Year Plan to Upgrade Aging Trains (SF Examiner) Professor Questions Whether Bay Area Toll Lanes Will Make Money (East Bay Express) LA Metrolink Agrees to … Continued
By
Bryan Goebel
9:14 AM PDT on May 6, 2009
- CBS5 Raises Questions About Police Costs for Critical Mass (Eye on Blogs)
- CHSRB Responds to Palo Alto Vice Mayor’s Call for Abolishment of High-Speed Rail Commish
- BART Moves Ahead with 20-Year Plan to Upgrade Aging Trains (SF Examiner)
- Professor Questions Whether Bay Area Toll Lanes Will Make Money (East Bay Express)
- LA Metrolink Agrees to Pay Former Spokesperson $135,000 (LAT)
- Bike Portland: “Local High School Does Bike Parking Right”
- Strange Bus Stops from Around the World (Toxel)
- House Dems Agree to Subsidize Car Purchases in Climate Bill (WSJ, NYT)
- CNN Senior Producer Will Become Ray LaHood’s Press Secretary (WaPo)
- Planning Transportation in Abu Dhabi (TOW via Streetsblog.net)
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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