Via Congressman Blumenaur's Office:
Secretary LaHood announced today that the FTA will make $280M available for competitive grants for urban circulator's (they don't have to be Streetcars, but...) as part of the administrations urban livability initiative.
A big chunk of the money is previously allocated transit dollars the Bush Administrative never' [...]
Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for November 29th:
The 2009 Holiday Express begins boarding December 4 | Dave Knows: PortlandRail fan Dave has the Holiday Express information: "Now’s your chance to ride on vintage rail cars pulled by [...]
I’d like to extend our congratulations to OC Editor Emeritus and current editor of the excellent The Truth About Cars blog for getting an op-ed published in no lesser a venue than the New York Times. Anyone who said the OC was nothing but a bunch of drunken [...]
Strangely, this story doesn't seem to be getting much play in the American media, but U.K. media manages to report it. MoTown once was famous for music and muscle cars, but now represents something entirely different.
The abandoned corpses, in white body bags with number tags tied to each toe,' [...]
José Pinomesa, Chairman
Oregon Independent Auto Dealers Association
It is now November and the sale of vehicles has slowed down quite a bit. I have always said that those with money will always buy what they want when they want. The problem we have now [...]
Colorado just got the first conviction in the USA based on this technique. A punk did smash-and-grabs on a bunch of cars in an apartment complex. Unfortunately for him, he cut his widdle self during one of them, leaving a bloodstain on a seat. As one wag put it, [...]
