TransportGooru Headline News Aggregator Dispatch – March 31, 2009

March 31, 2009 at 2:31 pm

LA Transportation Blog – Headlines for Tuesday March 31, 2009

91 Express toll lane prices to drop – Press Enteprise
California DOT’s new monitoring systems to speed traffic flow- Traffic Technology Today
California is Setting the Stage for a Tax on Vehicle Miles Traveled – StreetsBlogLA
Calif. port eyes clean truck incentives – eTrucker
Councils Prep for DOT MOU Meetings – CityWatch
County’s polluting buses fined $5,000 – Ventura County Star
Creek Freak on the City’s Plan for Arroyo Seco Cornfields – StreetsBlogLA
EDF Joins EPA in Announcement of Historic U.S. Action to Protect Americans from Deadly Global Shipping Pollution – Fuel from Sea-Going Vessels Is Major Source of Air Pollution at 100+ U.S. Port Cities, New EDF Report Shows – Environmental Defense Fund
Enthusiasm Builds for Helping a Shift to Fuel-Efficient Cars – New York Times
EPA Unveils New Ports Emissions Plan – NPR
L.A. sets meetings on Olympic-Pico traffic plan – The proposal would restrict parking during peak traffic periods on Olympic and Pico boulevards, and signals would be timed in a way that would favor westbound traffic on Olympic and eastbound on Pico – Los Angeles Times
Mayor’s Pico-Olympic Traffic Plan Surfaces Again – CityWatch
National Train Day Means Amtrak is Still Chugging Along – Jaunted
Old West comes alive at Railfest – Heyday of trains saluted – Ventura County Star
Orange County Lowers Toll Rates – Reason
Public Meetings Set for Olympic-Pico Traffic Plan – LAist
Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus not so ‘green’? – Los Angeles Times/LA Now
Short List of Top Logistics Locations – Which locations are ready to handle your next logistics facility? – Area Development
Tech Firms Seek to Get Agencies on Board With Cloud Computing – Washington Post
Toll Lanes On; Air-Friendly Buses Too – CurbedLA
TriMet Metro unveils an online planning tool – Build-a-system tool is designed to involve public in transit corridor development – Daily Journal Of Commerce
Urban Planning with Smart Growth Principles – Sustainable Growth Guidelines for Land Use and Transportation Design – Suite 101
Vehicle Manufacturers Are Leading Intelligent Transportation Systems Efforts with Obstacle Detection Systems Launching in 2009, According to ABI Research – MarketWatch
Welcome to the Valley: Proposed bridge would become region’s landmark – Pasadena Star News
What You Need to Know Before This Week’s Pico-Olympic Meetings – StreetsBlogLA
Winners of A New Infrastructure: Innovative Transit Solutions for Los Angeles – The Architects Newspaper
Winners of A NEW INFRASTRUCTURE Competition Announced – Bustler

Streetsblog – Headlines for Tuesday March 31, 2009

Albany Attempting to Fund Transit and Avoid Bridge Tolls (NYT, Post)
Obama Admin Takes Firmer Approach With GM and Chrysler (NYT, NYT, WSJ, Yglesias)
Brooklyn Bridge Face-Lift Headlines List of NYC Stim Projects (News, Post)
Pols ‘Protest’ MTA Doomsday Measures at City Hall (Bklyn Eagle)
Without Rescue Package MTA Would Cut 3,000 Positions (News)
Rental Housing on the Rise in the Exurbs (WSJ)
How Much High-Speed Rail Does $8 Billion Buy? (MSNBC)
CA Bill Would Set the Stage for Mileage Tax (Streetsblog SF)
WashCycle Wades Into the Bike PR Debate
Albuquerque Getting a Bike Bridge Across Rio Grande (Bike ABQ via Streetsblog.net)

Transport for America – Headlines for Tuesday March 31, 2009

Road work in Baltimore will bring some serious congestion downtown. (Baltimore Sun)
Colorado’s stimulus-funded roadwork appears to avoid any serious sprawl. (Colorado Independent)
The dismal economy pushes road builders to offer some extraordinarily low bids. (New York Times)
As dreams of homeownership slip away for millions, renting moves to the mainstream in far-flung suburbs. (Wall Street Journal)

Note: TransportGooru thanks all the authors for contributing to this headline news summary. This dispatch is made possible by integrating the headline news feeds from the above mentioned sources. At times, you may encounter a repeat of the same headline news since they are captured by various individuals working at different organizations. Please visit the respective source websites if you have any trouble viewing the articles behind the URLs.

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