Today's Headlines

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By Damien Newton

6:51 AM PDT on March 16, 2010

Traffic Fatalities Down in USA and CA (LAT)
How’s This for a Switch? L.A. Teaching Rest of Country About Transit? (HuffPo)
The Bus Bench Absolutely Destroys the Ongoing TAP Fiasco at Metro
LAPD Getting More Aggressive on Bike Thieves (LAist, blogdowntown)
Council Moving Fast on Proposed DWP Rate Hike. First Hearing Today (Daily News)
Time to Get Rid of the Redundancy and Lack of Production That Is LADOT (City Watch)
Angels Flight Rides Again (LAT)
How Do You Get a Crosswalk Installed? Let Me Walk You Through Some Steps (Good)
The FDR Drive Is Built on the Ashes of London (Bldg Blog)

Lots more headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill

Damien Newton

Today's Headlines

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