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		<title>Happy Independence Day</title>
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This will be my last post until Monday barring something unbelievably major happening over the weekend.  Happy Independence Day everyone.  Hopefully we can all celebrate our independence from Car Culture in our own ways this weekend.

Above is a Streetfilm from New York where a community has taken back ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/07/03/happy-independence-day/</link>
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		<title>Christmas in July: Griffith&#8217;s Park Controversy Starts Early</title>
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The Entrance to the Festival of Lights, 2007&#160;The Griffith Park's annual Festival of Lights is supposed to be one of the highlights of the holiday season for thousands of Angelenos.&#160; The park is festively lit up by the Department of Public Works in an effort to make the park visible ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/07/03/christmas-in-july-griffiths-park-controversy-starts-early/</link>
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		<title>Contented Streets: Why Copenhagen Is the World&#8217;s Happiest Capital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Why have Danes again been named the happiest people on the planet? Early this year ABC News cited bikes as &#34;perhaps ... the best symbol of Danish happiness,&#34; and in this clip from &#34;Contested Streets&#34; it isn't hard to see why. Here, livable streets guru Jan Gehl and others ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/07/03/contented-streets-why-copenhagen-is-the-worlds-happiest-capital/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Headlines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SFV Businesses Wants Red Line Extended to Burbank Airport (Bottleneck Blog)&#160;AAA Spokesperson: Gas Prices Not Really Changing Holiday Travel (Daily News)&#160;More on Good Metroquette (LAist)&#160;Gentrification Study: Hipsters Effects Overblown (Time via Curbed)&#160;Cops Net Stolen Van, Crazy Person During Cell Phone Bust (Times)&#160;The Liposuction Solution to Oil Dependence (SF Gate)
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		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/07/03/todays-headlines-113/</link>
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		<title>Senator Romero Won&#8217;t Support Anything Without Guarantees for SGV</title>
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Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero is taking a stand.&#160; Romero tells the Times that if she doesn't get she wants for San Gabriel Valley, at no extra cost to her constituents, she'll vote to make sure all of LA County is denied the opportunity to to vote to increase everyone's ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/07/02/senator-romero-wont-support-anything-without-guarantees-for-sgv/</link>
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		<title>From the Comments Section: CHP and KNBC Endanger Pedestrians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the comments section, Streetsblogger M reported yesterday that in their rush to get footage of traffic KNBC, with an assist from the CHP, blocked the sidewalk forcing pedestrians onto an unsafe piece of LA roadways.&#160; It's great that California's hands free requirement went into effect yesterday, but couldn't we ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/07/02/from-the-comments-section-chp-and-knbc-endanger-pedestrians/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Headlines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Car Sales Plummet in June (CNN, NYT)Car Commute Times Getting Shorter in LA County (Times)&#160;Cops Enforcing Cell Phone Laws (Daily News)&#160;Car Strikes Motorcycle Cop (Times)&#160;High Gas Prices Spark Interest in Adult Bike Lessons (Boston Globe)It's Official: Denmark Is the World's Happiest Nation (Evening Standard)Bikes on a Train!&#160; Also Sharrows and ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/07/02/todays-headlines-112/</link>
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		<title>Cartoon Tuesday: A Modern Day Paul Revere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
&#160;Over at NYC Streetsblog they're calling this strip &#34;The Modern Day Midnight Ride.&#34;&#160; Of course, on this coast we have a different idea of what constitutes a Midnight Ride.&#160; Other than that, Ben Fried introduces the strip perfectly.Paul Revere embarked on his midnight ride from Boston to Lexington more than ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/07/01/cartoon-tuesday-a-modern-day-paul-revere/</link>
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		<title>Maryland Senator Ben Cardin: America Needs Transit, Now</title>
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The $1.7 billion in public transportation funding promised by the Saving Energy Through Public Transportation Act would be a step in the right direction, but it pales in comparison to what might have been. The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act -- the cap-and-trade bill that died in the Senate last month ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/07/01/maryland-senator-ben-cardin-america-needs-transit-now/</link>
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		<title>Metro’s $40 Billion Plan</title>
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Metro's Plans Are Big on Expansion, Not So Big on Increasing Bike/Ped. Access to Their StationsBefore Metro can place a half cent sales tax increase on the fall ballot, it needs to tell us how it’s going to spend the $40 billion the increase would raise over the next thirty ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/07/01/842/</link>
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		<title>¡Arriba Sevilla!</title>
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I was in Seville last week for the first time since February 2007, and in the intervening year there's been something of a transportation revolution in the city. It's most visibly evident in the Sevici bike-share bikes (bicis in Spanish) that are everywhere. The system launched in April 2007, and ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/07/01/%c2%a1arriba-sevilla/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Headlines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Garcetti's Sharrows Legislation Gaining Support (Times)&#160;Will Old Spaghetti Factory Be Replaced by Public Park? (LAist)&#160;Ticketing Hands Free Scofflaws on a &#34;Case by Case&#34; Basis (Times)&#160;McCain's Anti-Amtrak Stance May Come Back to Bite Him (Boston Globe)Police File Murder Charges Against Drunk Who Slaughtered Biking Family (Daily Bulletin)&#160; Four Car Carnage on ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/07/01/todays-headlines-111/</link>
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		<title>Will Rush Hour Trains Be the Next Bike Battleground?</title>
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Crowded Bike Racks Below Metro HQ.  Picture Taken at 9:00 A.M.


It is long standing of Los Angeles MTA to not allow bikes on trains from 6:30-8:30 every morning and 4:30 to 6:30 every evening.  However, the law is never enforced and when I've asked LA County Sheriffs checking ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/30/will-rush-hour-trains-be-the-next-bike-battleground/</link>
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		<title>Riding the Westside with Venice Critical Mass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Editor’s note: this is third in a monthly series of ride reports on Critical Mass from throughout the region.&#160; In April it I rode Pasadena.&#160; In May, Los Angeles.&#160; This month was going to be Costa Mesa, but I decided to put it off until the fall so instead it’s ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/30/riding-the-westside-with-venice-critical-mass/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Headlines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[City Council Approves Buses to Dodger Stadium (Bottleneck Blog)Handsfree Requirement Won't Make Roads Safer (Times)&#160;EDAW Envisions Giant Park Downtown (Angelinic)&#160;Columnist Blasts Metro Board, BRU, and John Walsh (Pasadena Star-News)&#160;Media Unhappy with Metro Board's Delay Strategy (MetBlogs, LA Weekly)Westsiders &#34;Relieved&#34; with Gold Line Stall (West LA Online)Laying Tracks for the Expo ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/30/todays-headlines-110/</link>
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		<title>Streetfilms: (Portland) Bike Box!</title>
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&#60;sigh&#62; Another Streetfilm about how awesome Portland is.&#160; It's time to take a stand, Angelenos!&#160; You Portlanders might have your complete streets, balanced transportation system, colored bike lanes and bike boxes; but I get to ride my bike on the sidewalk!&#160; Whenever I want to!&#160; So, there! &#60;/sigh&#62;Like Brad Aaron ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/27/streetfilms-portland-bike-box/</link>
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		<title>Meet the New Metro Board Chair&#8230;Same as the Old Metro Board Chair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Pam, we hardly knew ya.Unless I'm reading my Metro Board Rules and Procedures incorrectly it appears that Metro Board watchers will be experiencing a little back to the future next week, because on Tuesday, July 1 current Metro Vice Chair and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will succeed Pam O'Connor ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/27/meet-the-new-metro-board-chairsame-as-the-old-metro-board-chair/</link>
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		<title>Introducing: Bike Un-Friendly Destination of the Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I Can't Give the 3rd Street Farmer's Market Too Much Grief.&#160; There Was An Empty Bike Rack 100 Yards Behind Me.I've been planning for awhile to start a weekly column about how bike unfriendliness of LA culture is reflected in the poor to terrible bike amenities at public places.&#160; Given ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/27/introducing-bike-un-friendly-destination-of-the-week/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Headlines</title>
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Metro's Tax Plan Moves Forward (Daily News, Times)Metro Delays Action on Gold Line (SGV Tribune)&#160;CA Introduces Plan to Slash Emissions.&#160; Transit and Bikes Not Mentioned (Reuters)&#160;Metro Hiring More Supervisors to Improve On-Time Performance (Times)&#160;Is Idling a Reason for Metro's High Fuel Costs? (LAist)&#160;33 New Miles of Bike Lanes in Santa ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/27/todays-headlines-109/</link>
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		<title>Obama, Ethanol, and the &#8220;New Metropolitan Reality&#8221;</title>
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In a weekend speech to the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Senator Barack Obama continued to distinguish himself on urban policy, talking up cities as vital economic centers worthy of investment. Harry Moroz of DMI Blog has the story.Obama opened with a reference to his time as a community developer in ...]]></description>
		<link>http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/26/obama-ethanol-and-the-new-metropolitan-reality/</link>
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