Today’s Headlines
BART Considers Upgrades to Existing Fleet of Rail Cars (SF Gate) (CC Times) (ABC 7) (Daily Cal) BART Pilots System to Pay by Cell Phone (Examiner) Mayor Newsom and Supes Could Clash on MTA Budget (SFBG) Caltrain Looking at Service Cuts, Fare Increases, Bicycle Surcharge (Merc) Sacramento Will Re-Study New Streetcar Line (Sac Bee) Sonoma … Continued
By
Matthew Roth
8:16 AM PDT on May 8, 2009
- BART Considers Upgrades to Existing Fleet of Rail Cars (SF Gate) (CC Times) (ABC 7) (Daily Cal)
- BART Pilots System to Pay by Cell Phone (Examiner)
- Mayor Newsom and Supes Could Clash on MTA Budget (SFBG)
- Caltrain Looking at Service Cuts, Fare Increases, Bicycle Surcharge (Merc)
- Sacramento Will Re-Study New Streetcar Line (Sac Bee)
- Sonoma County Bus Riders Face Service Cuts (Press Dem)
- LaHood: California “Way Way Way Ahead” on High Speed Rail (WSJ)
- Huffington Post Examines Barcelona’s Bicing Bike-Share Program
- Report Finds Ethanol Not So Clean. Surprise Surprise (Merc)
- ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Not So Green, So Says Reasonable People (Grist)
- Feds Stop Funding Fuel Cell Car Research (NYT)
- Seattle Releases a Pedestrian Master Plan (Seattle Transit Blog via Streetsblog.net)
- DC Planning Dept Proposes Off-Street Parking Maximums for Downtown (GGW)
- British Study Shows Safety in Numbers Effect for Cyclists (Guardian)
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