Today’s Headlines
Map Shows How Slow L.A. Buses Go (LAist, map above…red and black are the slower speeds) Pile-On Mayor’s Measure R to Fix Roads Proposal Begins (LAT, Daily News, City Watch) But One Columnist Sees Potential, if the City Takes Its Time and Does It Right (City Watch) Fly Over the Proposed Highway Cap Park (Curbed) … Continued
8:54 AM PST on November 15, 2011
- Map Shows How Slow L.A. Buses Go (LAist, map above…red and black are the slower speeds)
- Pile-On Mayor’s Measure R to Fix Roads Proposal Begins (LAT, Daily News, City Watch)
- But One Columnist Sees Potential, if the City Takes Its Time and Does It Right (City Watch)
- Fly Over the Proposed Highway Cap Park (Curbed)
- “Bike Stop” Opens in Burbank Metrolink Station (The Source)
- WaPo: California High Speed Rail Going Nowhere Fast
- Huizar Sees Streetcars (and Department Stores…) in DTLA’s Future (Downtown News)
- Reminder: More Trains Running Between 8:00 P.M. and Midnight (The Source)
- One-Third of Drivers Admit to Driving While Asleep (CBS 5)
- Robert Caro: Janette Sadik-Khan Is the Anti-Moses (Observer)
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