Today’s Headlines
7:54 AM PST on January 3, 2012
Has Everyone Seen This By Now?
- Orange Line Extension Coming Early, Under Budget (Daily News via Curbed)
- FTA Gives Thumbs Up to Enviro. Documents for Crenshaw/LAX Line (The Source)
- Court Upholds State Assault on CRA’s (LA_Now, SF Chronicle)
- Daily News: Hooray! CRA’s Stink
- But Not Everyone, Including a Lot of Cities, Is Happy (LAT)
- Mayor’s Delayed Payments Plan Pushes $100 Million in Debt to the Future (LAT)
- OC Road Builders Look for New Back Door to Enviro Rules, Build Highways Piecemeal (LAT)
- Mayor Says the Chinese Think Our Planning Stinks. Hollywood Residents Don’t Car (LAT)
- L.A. Magazine Profiles Parking Rock Star Donald Shoup
- Curbed Hands Out Its “End of the Year” Awards: Bikes, Trains, Broad
- Driving Has Lost Its Cool for Young Americans (GRIST)
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