Transit News Digest
Some stories from the wire..or, my Google Reader.
Local Vegas News
On the quest to burn the ring, an alliance of dwarfs, elves, hob…oh sorry, wrong story. But this is a story about an alliance. The Sun reports that Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Arizona have created the Western High-Speed Rail Alliance dedicated to building high-speed rail between all four states’ major cities. What about California, you say? Well, you can thank them for tanking Nevada’s economy, so proposals are underway for an impenetrable wall on the western most lines of Clark County. (Just kidding about that past part 
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So, if you’re like me and walk around downtown a lot you know that the current Downtown Transit Center pretty much sucks. That’s why they’re building a new one! At $17 million, the RTC is building a multi-modal transit center for pedestrians, bikers and busers.
Neighbor News
Weary Angelenos may say goodbye to this ethnically ambiguous, scantily clad “hot babe:”
I know you’ll be sad. I see her everywhere, even in my dreams. But NO MORE! says LA city councilman Dennis Zine. He’s proposing a ban on these roving billboards that he says block views, clog traffic, and give people the creeps. This sort of thing has been up for legislation at least twice in the last couple of years in Vegas. Nothing has been done, yet. God speed, Mr. Zine.
Food for Thought
Carbon Trace asks an interesting question about statutes that forbid anyone under 21 from texting while driving:
“Do you suppose that people older than 21 are capable of texting and driving?”
If you think you can, please play the NY Times’ game to be sure.
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Tom Vanderbilt has some thoughts on the existentialist dilemma of being a pedestrian.
“The irony, of course, is now that it’s driving that’s become pedestrian, and walking which is novel.”
CLAP.
