Today’s Headlines
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8:30 AM PDT on May 21, 2012
- Metro Bus Driver Shot and Killed – Allegedly by Passenger (LAT, Daily News, The Source)
- Suspect Identified, Booked (LA_Now, Daily News)
- Is Expo Unsafe at the Washington Blvd. & Flower St. Blue Line junction? CPUC Inspectors Move In (LAT)
- Sports Carmageddon in DTLA Also Not an Issue (Daily News, Press-Telegram)
- Hollywood’s Pedestrian Alley Doing Great (Curbed)
- Small Turnout, Mostly Big Dig Opponents, at Recent Meeting in El Sereno (El Sereno Sun)
- Metro Considering Cell Service, Wi-Fi on Trains (Blog Downtown)
- Prediction: New NELA Bike Lanes Won’t Get a Lot of Use on Steep Via Marisol (BIKAS)
- Curbed Learns It’s Really Hard to Coordinate City to Improve and Complete Streets
- More Art for the Orange Line Extension (The Source)
- Sacramento Bicycle Advocates Chalk Up Successes of Bike Month (SacBee)
- A Mocking Quiz on the State of the Mayoral Race (Downtown News)
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