Category: media coverage
Posted by Juan - August 6, 2012 - media coverage
In an August 2nd editorial for the Washington Post, Harold Meyerson highlights Los Angeles’s innovative approach to job creation and congestion reduction. He goes on to point out that Metro’s labor agreement sets aside half of apprenticeships for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan and residents of low-income Zip codes: exactly the innovative job creation [...]
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Posted by Juan - February 1, 2012 - media coverage
When the Mayor and his staff in city hall say that nothing is off the table when it comes to accelerating project development and construction for the transit projects funded by the Measure R sales tax, they aren
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Posted by Juan - July 13, 2011 - media coverage
U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein issued a joint press release on July 6 announcing that the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) was taking a major step
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Posted by Juan - May 26, 2011 - media coverage
Today, thanks to the hard work of Senator Boxer, Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and our leading champion of America Fast Forward, along with Senators Inhofe, Baucus and Vitter we got a first look at the draft legislation to reauthorize our federal transportation programs. And it’s great news for our transportation [...]
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Posted by Juan - May 2, 2011 - media coverage
Along with the federal government’s final blessing upon the Central Corridor light rail project at a spirited ceremony on Tuesday came a nagging sense of ambivalence.
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Posted by Juan - April 7, 2011 - media coverage
The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works discusses America Fast Forward and indexing the federal gas tax to inflation to make up the growing deficit in the transportation Trust Fund..
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Posted by Juan - April 1, 2011 - media coverage
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says that a new transportation and jobs infrastructure plan
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Posted by Juan - April 1, 2011 - media coverage
For over a year now, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been spearheading a “30/10″ initiative, designed to accelerate the construction a range of urgently needed transit projects (mostly rail transit lines).
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Posted by Juan - March 20, 2011 - media coverage
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa continues to pitch his proposal for federal help with transportation loans. The mayor has enlisted support from his compadres from cities around the country. Mayor Villaraigosa says more than 75 mayors have signed on to the effort he calls
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Posted by Juan - March 20, 2011 - media coverage
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