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By Damien Newton

5:56 AM PDT on August 24, 2012

But the Fix Totally Isn’t In! Metro Staff Recommends Which 710 Options to Explore, Less Than a Week After Hundreds of Comments Submitted in Public ~~Charade~~ Outreach (The Source)
Huizar Wants City to Oppose All 710 Options Except Tunnel Under SoPas (Patch)
Villaraigosa Cuts Ribbon on Two South LA Parks. Promises 50 More (LAT)
New Long Beach Bike Share Plan a “Two Wheeled Revolution” (Press-Telegram)
Many Stakeholders for USC Redevelopment Project. They Don’t Agree (Our Weekly)
Metro Gearing Up to Lock Turnstiles, Convert to TAP (Blog Downtown)
Patch Readers Split on Measure J (Patch)
Legislature OK’s Increase in Texting-While-Driving Fines (LAT)
OnCentral: “How To Not Run Out of Gas and Get Shot”
SPUR: Bay Area Should Follow LA’s Lead in Re-Envisioning Boulevards
Get Your Carmageddon Countdown Clock! (The Source, Daily News)
Zev, You Should Have Copyrighted the Word While You Had a Chance (Salon)

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