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Investor’s Magazine: Hooray for Highways! Boo for Gas Taxes!

By Damien Newton | Apr 3, 2008 | 5 Comments

The Investor’s Business Daily has written an editorial extolling the virtues of wider freeways and lower gas taxes. It’s a great piece of car culture thinking from the last century. Taken with State Farm’s advertisement bashing bike commuters as poorly dressed losers, it really shows how far we still have to go. At issue is the […]

Yes LA, There Is a Streetsblog

By Damien Newton | Jan 31, 2008 | 1 Comment

For a while now I’ve talked about using this blog as a placeholder until we were ready to launch a version of Streetsblog for Los Angeles. Well, the time for that launch approaches and my first two posts for Streetsblog are now online. Given my obsession with electoral politics, it should be no surprise that […]

Go Green with Street Heat!

By Damien Newton | Jan 25, 2008 | No Comments

Emerald Green that is. Today was the first of my guest posts over at Green LA Girl’s Emerald City Blog over at the Times website. For about the next month, you’ll be able to find a weekly column by me over there on Monday talking about HOT Lanes and Congestion Pricing. Special thanks to Siel […]