Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

By Damien Newton

8:36 AM PST on January 19, 2012

Featured Headline: Our good friend Don “Roadblock” Ward, the 2010 Livable Streets Person of the Year, has just launched a new column about bicycling in Los Angeles at KCET’s website. An excerpt from the first column: “But back then getting a driver’s license was a rite of passage that almost every kid looked forward to, especially in Los Angeles where people barely get their mail without hopping in an automobile. The key to a car was the key to the world. In a matter of years I became the typical L.A. driver: fast, aggressive, aggravated at the endless traffic.”

Father of Slain Child Blasts LAPD for Not Keeping Cars of Unlicensed Drivers (Ron Kaye LA)
City Not Working with Neighborhood Council’s on Safe Routes to School (City Watch)
CABO Strikes Back. Bike Group Reacts to Attacks on Biking In L.A.
LA Badly Needs Freeway Air Monitors (LA Weekly)
Gov. Blows Off Request to Make CRA Dissolution Easier (Daily News)
Map Shows Depressing Lack of Trees in L.A. (Curbed)
Times Weighs in on THE RED LINE, Kind of Misses Point (LA_Now)
LBUSD Opposes Proposed Freight Rail Yard (Press-Telegram)
Villaraigosa at Conference in Mayors: US Needs to Invest in Urban Areas (Daily News)
Not a Lot of Money for Huge Highway Project in Antelope Valley (KABC)
Caltrans Beautifies Freeway Exit on Route 60 (Eastsider)
Buscaino’s Election Means 4 LAPD Officers on City Council (LAT)
Sheriff’s Concerned When Passenger Hit in the Face on a Bus…As Long As They Weren’t the Hitters (LA_Now)

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