Today’s Headlines
Featured Headline: Our good friend Don “Roadblock” Ward, the 2010 Livable Streets Person of the Year, has just launched a new column about bicycling in Los Angeles at KCET’s website. An excerpt from the first column: “But back then getting a driver’s license was a rite of passage that almost every kid looked forward to, … Continued
8:36 AM PST on January 19, 2012
Featured Headline: Our good friend Don “Roadblock” Ward, the 2010 Livable Streets Person of the Year, has just launched a new column about bicycling in Los Angeles at KCET’s website. An excerpt from the first column: “But back then getting a driver’s license was a rite of passage that almost every kid looked forward to, especially in Los Angeles where people barely get their mail without hopping in an automobile. The key to a car was the key to the world. In a matter of years I became the typical L.A. driver: fast, aggressive, aggravated at the endless traffic.”
- Father of Slain Child Blasts LAPD for Not Keeping Cars of Unlicensed Drivers (Ron Kaye LA)
- City Not Working with Neighborhood Council’s on Safe Routes to School (City Watch)
- CABO Strikes Back. Bike Group Reacts to Attacks on Biking In L.A.
- LA Badly Needs Freeway Air Monitors (LA Weekly)
- Gov. Blows Off Request to Make CRA Dissolution Easier (Daily News)
- Map Shows Depressing Lack of Trees in L.A. (Curbed)
- Times Weighs in on THE RED LINE, Kind of Misses Point (LA_Now)
- LBUSD Opposes Proposed Freight Rail Yard (Press-Telegram)
- Villaraigosa at Conference in Mayors: US Needs to Invest in Urban Areas (Daily News)
- Not a Lot of Money for Huge Highway Project in Antelope Valley (KABC)
- Caltrans Beautifies Freeway Exit on Route 60 (Eastsider)
- Buscaino’s Election Means 4 LAPD Officers on City Council (LAT)
- Sheriff’s Concerned When Passenger Hit in the Face on a Bus…As Long As They Weren’t the Hitters (LA_Now)
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