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Leo Baeck Temple fosters passionate support for transit improvements in Sepulveda Pass
Jewish Journal
April 13, 2016
In the midst of a hotly contested election season, dozens of community members representing churches and synagogues from across Los Angeles County met on April 10 at Leo Baeck Temple to discuss the very real possibility of getting another name on the November ballot: the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA).
NYC subway covered in Nazi insignia for Amazon ad promotion
Jewish Journal
November 24, 2015
A New York City subway has been covered with the Nazi insignia in an ad promotion for a new Amazon series.
Green transit, Hollywood Jew, New Yorker cover
Jewish Journal
July 24, 2008
\” . . . In the field of education, we already have a monstrous, corrupt, money-squandering, dysfunctional bureaucracy known as the public school system, which robs parents of control over their children\’s education and leaves them powerless and defenseless against the colossus of the state. The last thing we need is to create a similar monstrous bureaucracy to deliver health care . . . \”
Bus Girl
Jewish Journal Staff
April 15, 2004
The fictional Carrie Bradshaw saw her image on a bus placard because she wrote a popular sex column. But Carol Taubman sees her image go by each day on the side of MTA buses for a very different reason.
Suit Filed to Stop MTA Busway
Wendy J. Madnick
April 11, 2002
Opponents of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) East-West Transit Corridor, which was approved by the MTA in February, filed a lawsuit April 2 challenging the MTA\’s Environmental Impact Report (EIR), alleging that the report \”understated the serious effects of the busway on Valley residents and ignored alternative transit projects that could have avoided these effects.\”
The controversial busway is slated to run along a 14-mile route through neighborhoods from Warner Center in Woodland Hills to the Metro Red Line subway station in North Hollywood. Supporters say it is a necessary and welcome means of improving mass transit. Opponents contend that the estimated $330 million project is too dangerous and expensive and that expanding the MTA\’s popular Metro Rapid Bus service would provide almost as many buses at 10 percent of the cost and with far fewer safety concerns.
Taking on the MTA
Wendy J. Madnick
June 14, 2001
Imagine a sunny Saturday afternoon. Families walking home from shul along quiet streets cross a well-worn thoroughfare, once the site of a rail system running through the neighborhood like a gentle stream, now transformed into a freeway for high-speed buses. The light changes and the families begin their journey across the street — but not fast enough.
Transit Torment
Michael Aushenker
October 5, 2000
On Fairfax Avenue, a cursory poll of how seniors were coping with this strike revealed many who were either directly or indirectly inconvenienced.\n
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