Today’s Headlines
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8:50 AM PDT on October 18, 2012
- Behold! Metro unveiled two new platforms serving Metrolink and Amtrak at Union Station yesterday (The Source)
- Do you like Goonies? How about streetcars downtown? This might be your weekend (Downtown News)
- Turning land at east edge of downtown into hub for green jobs and cleantech companies proves challenging (Downtown News)
- Should I stay or should I go? LaHood seems to be weighing the options (Politico)
- Mapping the potential for solar power on every roof (Atlantic Cities)
- Want to know more about the historical relationship between securing access to oil and foreign policy? Feeling nerdy? Check out the release of govt. documents from the Energy Crisis (1974 – 80) (U.S. Dept. of State)
- 7 plans for turning parking spaces into parks (L.A. Curbed)
- A TOD site anchored by a car dealership? Only in L.A. (L.A. Curbed)
- A housing development that puts cyclists and pedestrians first? Only in Echo Park. (The Architect’s Newspaper)
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