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• “We are no longer being deprived of the finer things in life like the luxury of not having to drive everywhere.”  I like this article about L.A.’s burgeoning transit awareness… a lot.
• Want to reduces your carbon footprint? Take transit.
• Transit agencies are doing all they can to go green.
• Babes on Bicycles vs. Creeps in Cars
• AAA urges New Yorkers to drive less. Huh!

• Celebrate Earth Day with Metro at  Union Station! Metro is sponsoring a free concert with Latin singer/songwriter Carina Ricco.
• Get a Carectomy this Earth Day!  It’s actually a very painless procedure since a car is not actually neccessary for human survival.
• Attention Metro: Environmentalists are your friends. Identify them, work with them, make them make you look good.
• L.A. takes on San Francisco in the race to be the greenest big city in the state of California.
• Metrolink introduces a new partially electric “green” locomotive just in time for Earth Day.

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• Getting around Wilshire on Earth Day, car-free of course!
• L.A. Times: Let’s fix our current transit system before trying to build a new one.
• Reasons to vote for California High Speed Rail.
• John Kerczek provides density data for a future Westside transit system.
• Freakonomics and the external costs of personal automobiles.
• Congestion pricing regressive?  HA!  Take a look at how car-culture as a whole is regressive.
• Environmental costs of cars that you don’t think about: the afterlife of tires.

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• Cal State Long Beach students love their cars, hate the idea of paying for the damage they cause.
• The Big Blue Bus 10 beats Metro 439 in the Great Bus Race 2008. Gloating ensues.
• Metrolink could be heading to Redlands by 2015.
• Downtown Long Beach pwns Downtown L.A. again.  Pedicabs being introduced this weekend.
• Riverside Transit agency is adding electronic panels with real time bus arrival information to 70 bus stops.
• McCain’s Gas Tax Summer Holiday not such a hot idea.
• An ex-New Yorker takes a ride on the Red Line and shares his opinion.

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• Earth Day is April 22nd: Celebrate by taking mass transit.
• 10 reasons why John McCain is a moron.
• Yes! Los Angeles is on a top three list!  Oh wait…
• Blogging LA and The Bus Bench embark on the Great Snail Bus Race 2008!
• Downtown blogger heads up north to ride streetcars.
• The general manger of the Big Blue Bus gets it: “Young people think it’s really cool to get on an alternative fuel bus.”

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• Presidential candidate McCain proposes giving the gas tax a summer vacation as a way to stimulate the economy.
• Tired of that Expo Line Phase I drama?  Why not build Phase II first?
• A new lengthy, detailed, and highly informative article has been posted over on Metro’s Imagine Blog.  Read it now for shocking information about the future Westside subway.
• Advocates continue to try and get the Green Line to LAX.