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• Above ground or underground? Those are the two remaining choice for the Downtown Regional Connector.
• A look at the remaining alternatives for the Westside Extension.
• How does a bill that would hurt the freight railroads hurt passenger rail too?  Adron has the scoop.
• Wow, a positive editorial on congestion pricing carpool lanes!
• Travel from San Louis Obispo to San Francisco in style on the new Coast Daylight.
• High gases prices are getting Valley students out of their cars and on the bus.
• A closer look at the innovative advertising now seen on the Red Line.
• City Beat interviews Laura Richardson, a new pro-transit congresswoman and champion of the subway.

• Fare gates what? 98% of homeless riding the Red Line have valid tickets.
• Red Line gets some new fangled tunnel ads promoting Speed Racer.
• The Daily News really dislikes congestion pricing.
• Los Angeles needs more sprawl and freeways.
• Amtrak offering 25% off coach fare on California routes on National Train Day, May 10th, 2008.

• Valley residents to Metro: We Imagine a future without growth.
• Peter Gordon vs. Bart Reed: Blah blah blah, city planning, blah blah blah, congestion pricing, blah blah blah, sprawl, blah blah blah.
• Gold Line to Montclair bill working its way through Washington.
• Yet another article about the unfairness of congestion pricing. Yawn.

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• Is car culture reaching its threshold? Freakonomics ponders.
• D.I.Y. bicyclist punks determined to make L.A. bike friendly, politicians be damned.
• Peter Gordon vs. Bart Reed: the congestion pricing battle rages on.
• Economists, and Obama, know that a gas-tax holiday is a joke.
• Black chicks in L.A.: if you wanna get your hair did, eventually you’re going to have to bus it to South Central.  Here’s how.

• Freeways are kind of like restaurants and kind of like government cheese. Either way, congestion pricing has the potential to at last put a price tag on road use.
• Bart Reed and Peter Gordon go at it again. This time they tackle the subway to the sea.
• Pasadena Star-News readers do not like congestion pricing.
• The U.S. Department of Transportation has started a blog!
• Are car-pool lanes fair? Regardless of whether they are priced or free?
• Metro is going back to court courtesy of Fix Expo!

• “God, deliver us from these high gas prices,” Twyman said.
• L.A. transit doesn’t have what it takes to attract wi-fi service providers.
• Take a look at the Coachella Express and its temporary platform in Indio.
• OMG this traffic totally sux! A native Valley Girl speaks out against L.A.’s car-culture.
• Diehard Metrolink riders just want some basic amenities.
• Plan transit with the future in mind to avoid the mistakes of the past.
• Is congestion pricing a gift to the rich?