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By Damien Newton

8:18 AM PDT on September 6, 2012

Editorial: It’ a Good Thing That Cities Have to Cut Trees for Shuttle Parade (LAT)
California Cities Frontiline in Soda Wars Thanks to Tax Initiatives (Reuters)
LADOT Leading on New Sharrows Design (LADOT Bike Blog)
Labor Groups Seek to Stop Wal-Mart Construction (Biz Journal)
Actress Amanda Byrnes Faces a Year in Jail for Hit and Runs (LAT)
“Jerry Browned” by a Hollywood Tour Bus (Biking In L.A.)
Another Suicide by Train Story, This Time with Metrolink (Daily News)
Metro Staff Don’t Want You to Get Hit by Trains (The Source)
It’s Looking Like 710 Big Dig Could Be Denied, Again (Eastside Sun)
Why Does Bike Theft Persist? Because There’s No Enforcement (Streetsblog NYC)

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