Streetsblog Los Angeles

• For God’s Sake, Just Tell Us If There’s Going to Be a Leimert Park Station (The Source)
• Most Expo Passengers Are New to Rail (CAHSR Blog)
• Metro Gets More Than $390 Million for Clean Air, Plans to Spend Most on Regional Connector (The Source)
• Dear Disney, Stop Screwing Up the Anaheim Trolley Plans (Voice of OC)
• Greuel’s Excellent TV Ads Off the Air for Now (LAT)
• The Koch Brothers Would Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to the L.A. Times (Daily News)
• Roadshow: How Drivers Should Turn Right With a Bicycle Rider in the Lane (Mercury News)
• Justin Bieber’s Terribly Unsafe Driving Is Now the World’s Problem (Yahoo)
• Daily Carnage: Six Injured in Multi-Car Crash on the 110 (CBS2)

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• CEQA Reforms a “Work in Progress” Still Moving Through Legislature in Sacramento (SacBee)
• Harbor Commissioner: SCIG Makes Sense for Region Despite Local Opposition (Press-Telegram)
• “Villaraigosa Defends Faulty Subway Science” (BH Courier)
• Today Is Voter Registration Deadline for L.A.’s 5/21 Election (Daily News)
• California High-Speed Rail Board OKs $96M, Two More Years for Contractor (Mercury News)
• Columnist Uses Reason Report to Attach CAHSR, I Lose Interest (Daily News)
• Conference of Mayors Still Love America Fast Forward (The Source)
• Can We At Least Pretend Anaheim Trolley Plan Isn’t Disney Subsidy? (Kitsap Sun)
• Yay! Bike Week! Yay! (The Source)
• Swanky Bev. Hills Hotel Offers Public Bikes to Guests (Curbed)
• Daily Carnage: L.A. Drivers Really Need to Learn How to Drive in the Rain (CBS2)

• Times: Repaint Spring Street with Film L.A. Input (LAT)
• L.A.’s Roads in Really Bad Shape, Sometimes Rich Areas Lag Behind Poor Ones (LAT)
• Comments for Scoping of East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor End Today (The Source)
• Free Ride Is Over, Metro Implementing Locked Gates (NY Times)
• More on Garcetti/Greuel and Plans for Sepulveda Pass (Curbed)
• Eagle Rock Businesses Don’t Want Cyclists to Do Business There or Something (Patch)
• Teamsters Want to Unionize Port Truck Drivers (Daily News)
• CAHSR Responds to Bidding Controversy (CAHSR Blog)
• Local Conservative Talk Show Host Wants Transit in Sepulveda Pass (Daily News)
• Jan Perry and Kevin James Pitch Talk Show (Daily News)
• Daily Carnage: We’re Going to Skip the Burning Limo and Go with DUI Hits Cop Car (Daily News)

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• 2008: LADOT Tries to Remove Crosswalk Before Outrage. 2013: They Put in a Signal. (SBLA, Eastsider)
• Villaraigosa Talks Transportation Legacy at USC Speech (Neon Tommy)
• Making the L.A. Bike Movement Sound As Though It Were Compound Interest (Bicycle Fixation)
• Cute Story About the Little Railroads of Los Angeles (Curbed)
• Two New Bills in CA Legislature Could Make Cycling Investments Along 710, L.A. River (Cycleicious)
• For Lord’s Sake, Just Tell Us We’re Getting a Leimert Park Station Already (Sentinel)
• ZipCar Belatedly Comes to LAX (Curbed)
• Daily News Backs Wendy Greuel for Mayor of Los Angeles
• Good News: Bill’s Getting Better (KPCC)
• Is There a Scary Driver in Your Family? There Is an Anonymous Way to Get Them Tested (Daily News)
• Daily Carnage: 14 Year Old Cyclist Killed by School Bus Driver in Glendale (Biking in L.A.)

• Caltrans: We Were Totally Already Planning to Fix Venice This Summer (Patch)
• City Has Tentative Plan to Buy Civic Center Plot to Add to Grand Park (Downtown News)
• Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council Taks Bike Lanes Tonight (Patch)
• LAPD: Deadly Bike v Car Hit and Run Was Intentional (LAist via Biking In L.A.)
• Chinese Firm Will Build LB’s Electric Buses in Lancaster (Daily News)
• CA Assembly Bill Would Aim to Promote Bike-Ped Greenways Along Rivers (Cyclelicious)
• “City Walk” Premiers Tonight on KCET TV (KCET)
• CA Population Up to 38 Million (Daily News)
• Clarence Picks His Top 5 Streetfilms (Momentum Magazine)

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• Ridley Thomas: Leimert Park Deserves a Train Station (LAT)
• Metro Holds Hearing on May 15 for 2014 Budget (The Source)
• March Planned Today Against Wyvernwood Development (Curbed)
• Grand Park Filming Fees Temporarily Lowered (LAT)
• Garcetti, Greuel Discuss Transit Tunnel Under Sepulveda Pass (CBS 2)
• Greuel Blasts James Endorsement of Garcetti. James Releases Chummy Texts from Wendy (LAT)
• Mayor’s Race Basically Tied (LA Weekly)
• How Does City Attack “Pothole Problem” (KPCC)
• Op/Ed: Proposed Westwood Bike Lane Does Help Traffic (Daily Bruin)
• The Transit Coalition Has a Blog! (Transit Coalition)
• Good News, Rail Hating Randall O’Toole Freaking Out Over New USDOT Sec. (Cato)
• Daily Carnage: 1 Killed, 8 Cars Crushed in South L.A. “Street Racing” Crash (ABC7)

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• Zev: Maybe 405 Widening Isn’t Totally Worth It (Daily News)
• Congress Members Hahn, Lowenthal: SCIG Needs Better Protections (Press-Telegram)
• Buscaino Sort of Sticks His Neck Out Defending Needed Bike Lanes in San Pedro (Daily Breeze)
• It’s Official: Obama Puts Forward Anthony Fox for USDOT Secretary (Streetsblog Cap. Hill)
• You’ve Seen the Video, Here’s the Rest of the Story on the Bike v Motorbike Crash (Biking in L.A.)
• California Bill Would Ban Hands Free Driving (Daily News)
• City Hopes to Extend River Bike Path to Sepulveda Basin (Curbed)
• Public Employee Bike Lane Immunity Bill Tabled in CA Assembly (Cyclelicious)
• $50,000 Reward for Hit and Run Information on March 24 Crash in Valley Glen (Daily News)
• Daily Carnage: Lakers Forward Sued After His Bentley Crashes into Car Dealership (Daily Breeze)

• Obama Taps Mayor of Charlotte to Replace Ray LaHood (Politico, LAT)
• Los Angeles State Historic Park, aka The Cornfield, Could Close for Year for Major Expansion (Curbed)
• Downtown News Plays It Even Covering the Spring Street Bike Lane “Controversy”
• Casden Development Could Swamp Westside in Permanent Carmageddon (L.A. Weekly)
• Heavy Hitters Are Coming to Today’s Public Meeting on SaMo Airport (Curbed)
• Bill Would Allow Some Carpool Lanes to Be Used By All in Off-Peak Hours (SGV Tribune)
• NELA a New Gentrification Capitol, Led by Cafe de Leche? (NPR)
• San Francisco Television Station’s Absurd Anti-Bike Share Argument Is Openly Mocked (Streetsblog SF)
• Super PAC’s Ruin All Meaningful Campaign Spending Limits (LAT)
• Daily Carnage: Motorcyclist Rear Ends Two Bicyclists on Mulholland (YouTube)

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• Metro Ends Monthly Charge for Irregular FastTrack Users of ExpressLanes (LAT, Curbed, The Source, ZevWeb)
• 5 Ways to Irritate Everyone with Barely Coherent Arguments (L.A. Weekly)
• Media Continues to Lionize Distracted Driver Who Plays with Apps While Driving (LAT)
• An Editorial In Favor of High Speed Rail, aka The 4th Sign of the Apocalypse (Daily News)
• How CicLAvia Engaged Angelenos in the Public Space (KCET)
• Wanting an Even Bigger 405 Project, Elon Musk Donates to Angelenos Against Gridlock (Curbed, LAT)
• The Current 405 Disaster is $75 Million Over Budget and a Year Late, Let’s Do It Again! (Daily News)
• Villaraigosa, Mayors, Make Case for CEQA Reform (Daily News)
• Using Traffic Cams to Watch Us…Seems a Little Big Brother (without the Holding Company) to Me (KCET)
• LA Cyclists Look to Rotterdam in the Netherlands for Inspiration (KCRW)
• Tips for the Next Mayor (Planning Report)
• I Honestly Can’t Believe They’re Still Talking About Cracking Down on Fitness Classes in S.M. Parks (Patch)
• Daily Carnage: Bicyclist Shot by LASD Deputy Unarmed, “Suspicious” (LAT, CBS2)

• Momentum Turned in Spring Street Green Bike Lane Debate (Blog Downtown)
• Decision on Leimert Park Station Coming in Early May (Curbed)
• Still Totally Worth It: 405 Widening Over a Year Behind Schedule (LAT)
• Placement of Video Screens at Metro Center Is Nonsensical (Accidental Urbanist)
• The Case of the Bev. Hills Road Rage Hit and Run Makes the Times (LAT)
• State Senate Appoints Malcolm Dougherty to Head Caltrans Despite “Repeated Problems” (Merc)
• Conservative Paper in San Diego Fuming Over CAHSR Bidding Process (Union-Tribune)
• CA Assembly Committee Passes Two Bills to Tighten Restrictions on Teen Drivers (Sac Bee)
• Sustainable Transpo to Get Largest Share of Cap-and-Trade Funds, and More Updates From Sac (GC)
• Study: Driving With Voice-Activated Texting Is Still Dangerous (CoCo Times)
• Everybody Seems to Love Richie Trimble (L.A. Observed, ABC National, Yahoo News, The Post Game)
• I Don’t Even Know What Language Some of These Stoopid Tall Articles Are In (Sopitas, Vecernji, News Now)
• Daily Carnage: Pedestrian Killed by Car Driver in Sylmar (Daily News)

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