Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
8:53 AM PDT on July 12, 2012
- Alarcon Aide Who Killed Pedestrian with Car Skates on Felony Charges (Daily News)
- Flaw at Blue Line Junction Causes Derailment Risk. Metro Welds. (LAT)
- OC Confuses Drivers on Toll Rules. LA Shouldn’t Follow Suit (Daily News)
- Skelton: Bullet Train Vote a Show of Working Politics (LAT)
- A Look at How Business and the Economy Can Get More People on Bikes (Green Octopus)
- Sepulveda Pass Project Still Totally Worth It! But Rampture Stinks (UCLA News)
- Of Course People Will Ride California HSR (SFGate, SF Examiner)
- Glendale Considers One Mile Road Diet (News-Press)
- After High Speed Chase on the 170, Suspect Crashes Into Metro Bus in NoHo (Daily News)
- “Horrifying Drumbeat” of Cycling Fatalities Rolls On (Biking In L.A.)
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