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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's recovery plan for putting its fiscal house in order received the backing of another federal agency Friday. But, like a parent worried about a child continuing to improve on his grades, the U.S. Department of Transportation inspector general recommended that Washington closely monitor the MTA's progress in working out its financial problems.

State and federal transportation officials have volunteered not to spend any money on constructing the Long Beach Freeway extension until a judge decides the merits of an anti-freeway lawsuit brought by the city of South Pasadena. The statement in a recent legal brief was a response to a federal judge's tentative ruling saying he intends to grant a preliminary injunction barring any money being spent on the extension's construction. In the brief, the U.S.

Federal officials today are expected to back plans for the much-delayed Long Beach Freeway extension, contingent on strict conditions to reduce environmental and other concerns for the communities that have battled the project for four decades. The announcement would mark the largest step yet toward completion of the proposed 6.2-mile route, which would connect the San Bernardino and Foothill freeways, split South Pasadena and snake through the Eastside and parts of Pasadena.

A group of San Gabriel Valley cities and associations filed a friend of the court brief in federal court Friday seeking the completion of the Long Beach Freeway extension. Lawyers for the group argued in the brief that an extensive review of the project was conducted and that South Pasadena's proposed alternative was rejected on it merits. The coalition includes the cities of Alhambra, San Gabriel, Rosemead, Monterey Park, Duarte and San Marino. U.S.

A group of San Gabriel Valley cities and associations filed a friend of the court brief in federal court Friday seeking the completion of the Long Beach Freeway extension. Lawyers for the group argued in the brief that an extensive review of the project was conducted and that South Pasadena's proposed alternative was rejected on it merits. The coalition includes the cities of Alhambra, San Gabriel, Rosemead, Monterey Park, Duarte and San Marino. U.S.

State and federal transportation officials have volunteered not to spend any money on constructing the Long Beach Freeway extension until a judge decides the merits of an anti-freeway lawsuit brought by the city of South Pasadena. The statement in a recent legal brief was a response to a federal judge's tentative ruling saying he intends to grant a preliminary injunction barring any money being spent on the extension's construction. In the brief, the U.S.

The Times article regarding the construction of the Century Freeway (Part I, Dec. 27), stated with respect to Prof. Murray Brown: "Brown is paid $35,000 a year for his efforts but none of the lawyers in the case could think of an important problem he has solved." I represent the United States Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration in the case. I was not interviewed, or otherwise contacted, by the authors of the article, and I do not subscribe to the above-quoted statement concerning Brown.

United Airlines, hours before a gala news conference to inaugurate its Chicago-Tokyo service, today was denied permission by Japanese officials to fly the route until a dispute between U.S. and Japanese cargo carriers over an aviation pact is resolved. In October, United was granted the Tokyo-Chicago route by the Department of Transportation. It then applied for landing rights at Tokyo-Narita International Airport.

More than 78% of people killed in motorcycle or vehicle crashes statewide were not wearing safety equipment (seat belts, helmets, child safety seats), according to the most recent California Highway Patrol statistics compiled in 1990. More than 50% of people injured in crashes during the same period were not wearing safety equipment.

Airlines serving intra-European points have their own version of promotional or discount fares sometimes referred to as "creative fares." By combining such fares with discount flights from the United States you can save money while traveling around Europe, as regular European point-to-point fares are rather expensive. The problem may be in learning about such fares because they may not be promoted in the United States.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's recovery plan for putting its fiscal house in order received the backing of another federal agency Friday. But, like a parent worried about a child continuing to improve on his grades, the U.S. Department of Transportation inspector general recommended that Washington closely monitor the MTA's progress in working out its financial problems.

Federal officials today are expected to back plans for the much-delayed Long Beach Freeway extension, contingent on strict conditions to reduce environmental and other concerns for the communities that have battled the project for four decades. The announcement would mark the largest step yet toward completion of the proposed 6.2-mile route, which would connect the San Bernardino and Foothill freeways, split South Pasadena and snake through the Eastside and parts of Pasadena.

On a peaceful morning in February, 1991, a fiery gasoline-tanker crash jolted this Sacramento suburb like a terrorist car bomb. Residents awakened about 3:15 a.m. to a thunderous blast after a fully loaded tanker truck rolled over, skidded 110 feet on its side and landed on a parked car in a field at the edge of a tranquil residential neighborhood. Incredibly, no one died. But property damage spread for blocks, including two homes that burned to the ground.