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MTA ready to vote on $30 billion sales tax increase initiative today
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority board of directors this morning will vote on whether to place a $30 billon sales tax increase on the November ballot that if approved would spark three decades of road and rail construction, including the first...Tags: Subway Transportation Industry, State Budgets, Road Transportation, San Gabriel, Subway Transportation
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Solar-powered recharge on hybrid cars could be way to go
As someone who "came of age" during the era of Detroit's muscle cars, I've owned my share of high performance iron and, more recently, higher performance European sports cars. To that end, I am overjoyed to the point of giddiness when I pull into the gas...Tags: Vehicles, Honda, Fuel-efficient Cars, Boca Raton, Green and Hybrid Vehicles
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Why you want this tax hike
In 2005, I asked Angelenos to join me in re-imagining their city as a dynamic world capital defined by its flexibility and mobility, not by traffic and smog.
I challenged them to imagine communities connected not by bigger, wider highways but by a...Tags: State Budgets, Vehicles, Subway Transportation Industry, Road Transportation, Subway Transportation
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Summer civility and the promise of more to come
New York in July, hot and breezy, the smell of pizza and coffee in the air, and on the subway one is surrounded by women in light summer dresses, the bare shoulders of elegant, young, urban women whose shoulders tell you they never toted barges or...Tags: Transportation, Central Park, Subway Transportation
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Community Notes
The Maryland Woodland Stewards program (formerly the Coverts Program) is accepting applications. Owners and managers of small (1- to 10-acre) and large forest properties are welcome, as are environmentally concerned citizens. The outreach program of the...Tags: Wildlife, Auction Service, Forests, Academic Progress, Local Authority
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Is Orange County en route to new gas tax?
Sentinel Staff WriterOrange County voters may get to decide this fall whether to impose a new 1-cent-per-gallon gasoline tax to help pay for Central Florida's financially struggling bus system. Commissioner Linda Stewart on Tuesday proposed putting the penny-at-the-pump plan...Tags: Political Candidates, Elections, Referenda, State Budgets, Rich Crotty
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New Yorkers need transit innovations now
Andy Darrell is vice president for Living Cities at the Environmental Defense Fund, a member of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Sustainability Advisory Board and a former member of the New York Traffic MitiWhile the price of gas may drop a few cents here or there, it doesn't look like it's going below $4 a gallon again, and New Yorkers - from suburban commuters to business owners - are struggling to pay at the pump. The fuel crisis has increased the costs...Tags: Diseases, Long Island Rail Road, Parliament, David A. Paterson, Lower House
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Route 11: For Safety, Conservation, Commerce
Critics of the effort to complete Route 11 have mischaracterized the plan as a "new highway," "expansion project" and "new project." It is none of these. When Route 11 was conceived in the 1950s, it was intended to connect southeastern Connecticut to...Tags: Road Transportation, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Transportation, New London (New London, Connecticut)
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Summer civility and the promise of more to come
New York in July, hot and breezy, the smell of pizza and coffee in the air, and on the subway one is surrounded by women in light summer dresses, the bare shoulders of elegant young urban women whose shoulders tell you they never toted barges or lifted...Tags: Transportation, Central Park, Subway Transportation
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Recent Illinois Editorials
Childish lawmakers forced governor to make budget cuts. Lawmakers are playing games with the state budget sending the governor an excessively bloated budget without the revenue to support it, and then complaining about the cuts he had to make. Earlier...Tags: Executive Branch, Regional Authority, Chicago River, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Illnesses
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