Californians rejected a transportation funding measure Tuesday, heeding the plan's authors who put it on the ballot and then abandoned it saying it was no longer necessary. The measure failed 43 to 57 percent, with 41 percent of precincts reporting. The measure would have amended the state's constitution to prohibit California lawmakers from raiding gasoline tax money to balance the budget. SF Chronicle 2/05/08
Today, Thursday and next Wednesday, residents living in or near the place known as "Caltrans land" will have an important say in the massive property's future. The California Department of Transportation began buying a roughly 300-acre ribbon of contiguous land through the Hayward foothills about 50 years ago for a freeway that was never built. Beginning next year, the state agency will dispose of the land, much of which is already occupied by rented houses and apartments. But Caltrans has pledged not to sell its surplus property until Hayward decides exactly what it wants to see there next. Inside Bay Area 2/06/08
On 1st February the U.S. Association of International Automobile Manufacturers (AIAM) issued a statement reiterating its support for a single federal approach to improving motor vehicle fuel economy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by intervening on the side of EPA in a lawsuit brought by the State of California against EPA concerning California's greenhouse gas emissions regulations. EEMS 2/06/08
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