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The Mayor responds to today's sales tax vote Board of Supervisors votes against putting transit sales tax on ballot A 405 poem, speed limits and oil hedge funds; Ramping up, August 5 Congestion pricing and American driving habits

This photo of a scramble crossing at 7th & Broadway ran in the August 22, 1956, edition of the L.A. Times. Photo by L.A. Times. This morning, the Times' transportation guru, Steve Hymon, reported on the city's plan to install scramble crossings at several intersections

Molina, no Foothill Gold Line for John Fasana and Mike Antonovich, and no increase in operating funding for the BRU's supporters," said green blogger Darrell Clarke, who expanded his thoughts on a post, in an e-mail to LAist. Molina, who abstained said the proposal is a "nice concocted scheme... And every single and every step of the way it has made arrangements at how they were going to get more for one side of town versus the other side." She, who represents communities around East LA, is referring to the Westside's

4. "Voters WILL still vote on the sales tax issue. It will just be a separate ballot that voters will get during the same election," says the aide. "This was all clearly explained at the meeting today." Update 2: Steve Hymon gets it right at the LAT's Bottleneck Blog. Update 3: Daily News gets it right the first time, in a story by county reporter Troy Anderson that ably discusses the politics and that says, correctly, that the special election would cost $3 million not the $10 million the Times reported.

Molina while usually a tax and spend liberal was concerned that her district wasn't getting a big enough piece of the pie. Either way, fine with me. UPDATE: Turns out the L.A. Times has a new version of events. The County Supervisor vote complicates things, but this may still be on the ballot

The Dodger Shuttle, well I don’t really associate with people who do or watch sports (I’m assuming they are related to the french manicure and shopping at Bebe set), but apparently it’s not working out. BottleNeck LA Times/ 08-04 Someone or something is murdering cute little porpoises. Enemies of Douglas Adams unite. Planet Ark/ 08-04 “City Hall shuttle services will be terminated.” LADOT/ 08-04 Got a DUI, want to keep driving, well we want your soul first.

caused by overdevelopment without infrastructure -- the tax was rejected on a 3-2 vote with Westsiders Yaroslavsky and Yvonne Burke for it and Mike Antonovich, Don Knabe and Gloria Molina opposed, the Times reported with an expanded explanation at Bottleneck Blog. The San Fernando Valley, San Garbriel Valley and Gateway Cities represented by the three dissenters stood to get far less than a fair share of the $40 billion to be raised over 30 years with much of the money going to the mayor's "subway to the sea"