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Jerry Brown eases up on push to revamp California's environmental law
SACRAMENTO — As Gov. Jerry Brown toured China over the last week, he repeatedly contrasted that nation's speedy construction of modern transportation systems and other key public works with what he characterized as a lack of vision back home. A...
Tags: Trials, Career and Workplace, Politics, China, Parties and Movements
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Letters: The 405 blues
Re "405 stuck in slow lane," April 25 The Times was kind enough to print a letter I wrote nearly six years ago, on June 23, 2007, on the 405 Freeway widening project. I will take the opportunity to say "I told you so." To recap, I wrote: "Everybody...
Tags: Travel, Road Transportation, Highway Transportation, Transportation
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California 38 may shut down at least a week after tanker spill
California 38 near Angelus Oaks will shut down for at least a week and perhaps several weeks after a tanker truck flipped over Friday, spilling 4,000 gallons of fuel onto the roadway and into a nearby creek that feeds into the Santa Ana River, authorities...
Tags: Google Inc.
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Tanker spill closes State Route 38 to Big Bear until Saturday
State Route 38 near Angelus Oaks will be closed until Saturday after a tanker truck flipped over Friday morning, spilling some of its fuel onto the roadway and into a nearby stream, the California Highway Patrol said. The tanker truck contained about...
Tags: Google Inc.
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Malibu Councilman Peak gets probation in reckless-driving case
Malibu City Councilman Skylar Peak has been sentenced to two years of probation and 30 days of community service after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor count of reckless driving related to a Christmas Day accident. Judge Lawrence Mira on Wednesday...
Tags: Misdemeanors, Trials
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405 project stuck in the slow lane
Elon Musk quips that it's easier getting rockets into orbit than navigating his commute between home in Bel-Air and his Space Exploration Technologies factory in Hawthorne. "The 405 … varies from bad to horrendous," said Musk, who also co-founded...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Satellite Technology, Travel, Employees, Highway Transportation
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Herman I. Kimmel
Herman I. Kimmel Herman I. Kimmel passed away on April 5, 2013. He was born in 1923 and attended local schools in Eagle Rock and Pasadena. He leaves a wife of 34 years, Sharon Baker Kimmel, formerly of Choteau, Montana, and a nephew, David Kimmel of...
Tags: Science and Technology, Technology, U.S. Navy, Engineering, Highway Transportation
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For whom the tolls toll
Angelenos like their freeways to be free (although they differ on what it means for highway access to be free). That's the sentiment expressed by the half a dozen reader responses to USC public policy professor Peter Gordon's letter last Saturday urging...
Tags: Symptoms, Prices, Travel, Marketing, Road Transportation
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Replacing bridge will be some feat
It takes about five seconds to cross by car, maybe double that by foot. Since about 1930, the Park Avenue Bridge has connected Little Balboa Island to its larger, more bustling neighbor, Balboa Island. In the coming years, however, the situation there...
Tags: Science and Technology, Building Material, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Politics, Government
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Letters: Give the 110 toll lane more time
Re "Free way's the slow way," April 10 It's a pity we call them "freeways." Free access means rationing by crowding rather than by price (the way almost everything else is rationed). Everyone gripes about crowding and, as some of those quoted in this...
Tags: Prices, Vehicles, Travel, Road Transportation, Passenger Cars
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Solo drivers could use carpool lanes on off-hours under proposal
A bill by Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Sliver Lake) that would allow solo drivers to use carpool lanes during non-peak hours on the 134 Freeway in Glendale and Burbank has been amended to possibly include other local freeways. Gatto’s bill, AB 405,...
Tags: Mike Gatto
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Living near traffic linked to increased cancer risk in children
Researchers have already uncovered worrying signs that exposure to traffic – and the vehicle emissions that come with it – can increase a child’s risk of developing asthma and autism. Now comes evidence that it may make children more...
Tags: Asthma, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Cancer, Science and Technology, Leukemia
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