Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transportation Funding

Study: OC Taxes More Regressive Than Tolls

By Damien Newton | Aug 20, 2008 | 3 Comments

A new study by researchers at UCLA and USC calculates the cost to people of lower income of funding transportation with toll revenue and compares it to other ways of funding transportation. The study concludes that tolls, especially congestion pricing tolls, are among the most progressive ways to raise funds. The study reaches this conclusion […]

Today’s Headlines

By Damien Newton | Aug 14, 2008 | 4 Comments

D.C. Launches Bike-Share Network (WaPo) Think Metro is Wasteful? Check out LAUSD (Daily News) Metro Breaks Ridership Records (Bottleneck Blog, LAist) 115 New Parking Spaces Coming to Abbot-Kinney (LAist) More Than 40 U.S. Cities Exploring Streetcar Systems for Their Downtowns (NYT) D.A. Investigating Cop’s Critical Mass Takedown (Chelsea Now) City Puts in New Parking Meters […]

Senate Committee Passes Ammended Sales Tax Measure

By Damien Newton | Aug 13, 2008 | 3 Comments

The Bottleneck Blog reports that the logjam holding up A.B. 2321 was broken earlier today when the Committee moved an amended motion to the Senate floor. Because the amendments don’t change the list of funded projects, the measure won’t require a new vote by the Metro Board of Directors. It seems Metro’s sales tax measure […]

Cartoon Tuesday: In Which We Blog About the Other Paris

By Brad Aaron | Aug 12, 2008 | No Comments

Click through for this cartoon by Gary Varvel of The Indianapolis Star, referencing the now infamous tussle between John McCain and Paris Hilton. (And click here if you have no idea what we’re talking about.) While the ‘toon itself bears a ring of truth, the bigger irony may be that the presidential candidate who’s […]

Supervisors Put Sales Tax on Regular Ballot, But Get Their Shots In

By Damien Newton | Aug 12, 2008 | No Comments

The Bottleneck Blog is reporting that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has voted to place Metro’s proposed sales tax on the fall ballot with the rest of the elections. Just to make clear that placing the measure on the ballot has to do with the millions of dollars it would cost the […]

Senate Still Holding Sales Tax Bill. Board of Supervisors Will Vote on it Again.

By Damien Newton | Aug 7, 2008 | 4 Comments

First, the good news. It seems the third time is the charm for Metro’s sales tax proposal with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Supervisor Don Knabe, who had been lampooned on this website for his apparently confused views on the sales tax proposal announced via press release that he would introduce a motion […]

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