Today’s Headlines
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8:44 AM PDT on May 8, 2012
- Mocking the Beverly Hills PTA Video Goes Mainstream (CBS2, LAT, City Watch)
- Cue the Panic. Mayor Wants to Increase Parking Ticket Costs (LAT, LAT)
- Pasadena Weekly Pulls No Punches, Parrots BRU Line on Transit Racism
- Little Movement on 30/10 (Neon Tommy)
- Unsafe Expo/Grammercy Bike Crossing Gets a Little Better (LADOT Bike Blog)
- Centinella/Pico Getting New Expo Adjacent Apartments (Curbed)
- Metro Still Taking Heat for Rail Car Contract with Cars Built in Japan (Intersections South L.A.)
- Do “Three Foot Passing Laws” Actually Work? (Atlantic Cities)
- Metrolink CEO John Fenton Leaves for Job in Florida (LAT)
- Homeless Advocates Fight City Hall Attempt to Ban Tents in Parks (Daily News)
- Long Beach Proposes Bike Safety School for Cycling Scofflaws Instead of Tix (Facebook)
- Scenes From SF’s “Sunday Streets” in the Mission (Mission Local)
- Mitt: I Fixed the Auto Industry (Yahoo)
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