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Times Covers Coming Metro Cuts, Avoids Mentioning Pols By Name

By Damien Newton | Jan 25, 2010 | 1 Comment

Photo:Biofriendly/Flickr Over the weekend, the Los Angeles Times took a look at the coming budget crisis at Metro. The article just scratches the surface of the issue, correctly noting that there are a lot of reasons for the quarter of a billion dollar operating deficit including the state’s budget grabs, lower than projected sales tax […]

Gov.’s Newest Transit Raid Receiving a Frosty Reception

By Damien Newton | Jan 22, 2010 | 6 Comments

Schwarzenegger at October’s Alt-Car Expo in Santa Monica. Photo: Automobile Blog As Governor Schwarzenegger presses forward with his newest scheme to rob funds dedicated to transit, he’s receiving a frosty response from legislators and opinion makers that could spell doom for this plan to balance the budget. After the State Supreme Court agreed with every […]

Dodd and DeLauro Vow to Get Infrastructure Bank Done This Year

By Elana Schor | Jan 20, 2010 | No Comments

Supporters from every corner of the transportation universe joined Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA), Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) today at a press event aimed at jumpstarting a National Infrastructure Bank (NIB), which the two Connecticut lawmakers vowed to steer to passage this year. Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA), above, founded BAF with […]

LADOT Outlines Massive Cuts, Fare Hikes, for DASH

By Damien Newton | Jan 11, 2010 | 5 Comments

This route won’t be alone in seeing a cut…but at least it survives. Photo: rjmconnel/Flickr For much of the last year, Los Angeles’ transit riders were spared much of the suffering caused by the Governor and legislature’s decisions to eliminate transit funding in the name of partially closing the yawning chasm which is the state’s […]

Statewide/Local Advocates Slam Schwarzenegger’s Rumored End-Around Cut on Transit Funding

By Damien Newton | Jan 7, 2010 | 19 Comments

If the BRU is willing to protest Obama, I can’t wait to see what they have to say about another operating cut from the State. Photo: Streetsblog/Flickr Local transit advocates are reacting with fury to the Governor’s rumored plan to skirt a court ruling requiring that the state stop robbing transit funds dedicated in the […]

Troubling Silence on Transit in Gov’s State of the State Address

By Matthew Roth | Jan 7, 2010 | No Comments

Photo: Justin Short, Office of the Governor Despite continued cash flow crunches facing nearly every transit operator in the state, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said absolutely nothing about transportation or fixing transit’s woes in his State of the State address today. Transit operators are still bracing for the expected budget proposal this Friday that would thwart […]

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