Today’s Headlines
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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
CharadeOutreach (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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