Today’s Headlines
State Senate: Cars That Drive Themself? What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (LAT) Metro Staff Says “No Thanks” to Beverly Hills Proposed Routes (Curbed, The Source) NRDC: Farmers Field Enviro Docs Ignore Health Impacts of More Traffic (LAT) Vigil Held for Slain Metro Bus Driver (The Source) Bicycling Magazine‘s Profile of Los Angeles It’s Time to … Continued
7:57 AM PDT on May 23, 2012
- State Senate: Cars That Drive Themself? What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (LAT)
- Metro Staff Says “No Thanks” to Beverly Hills Proposed Routes (Curbed, The Source)
- NRDC: Farmers Field Enviro Docs Ignore Health Impacts of More Traffic (LAT)
- Vigil Held for Slain Metro Bus Driver (The Source)
- Bicycling Magazine‘s Profile of Los Angeles
- It’s Time to Raise the Gas Tax (Frying Pan)
- CA Bike Coalition’s Dave Snyder: Senate Transpo Bill Would Preserve Vital Bike/Ped Funding (Sac Bee)
- After Seeing Un-Marked Pit Bull on Bus, Writer Wonders What Constitutes “Service Animal? (Opposing Views)
- Top 5 Places to Eat Off the Expo Line (LA Weekly)
- Draft Plan for “Orange Line,” Union Station to Santa Ana, Surfaces (Curbed)
- Man Driving with Zebra, Parrot, Charged with DUI (Daily News)
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