Today’s Headlines
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8:04 AM PDT on May 16, 2013
- Metro’s Long Range Funding Forecast Shows Fare Hikes Coming…Just Not Next Year (The Source)
- L.A. Weekly Profiles Jennifer Klausner in Their 2013 People Issue
- Living Close to Busy Streets Bad for Kidneys. South L.A. Has a Lot of “Busy Streets” (OnCentral)
- New DMV Web Page, Video Show Drivers How to Share the Road With Cyclists (Cyclelicious)
- SF Subway Project Not Going Smooth. Westside, Are We Next? (Observed)
- Never Trust a Study from the University of Minnesota. Greater L.A. “Best” Place to Car Commute (Curbed)
- You Can Go Carfree in Los Angeles, But It’s Not Easy (KCET)
- LASD Arrests Man for Stabbing of Metro Bus Driver (The Source)
- Is It OK to Vote for Wendy Because She’s a Woman? (Daily News)
- Daily Carnage: Cyclist Killed by Driver Fleeing Gunfire in Florence (LA_Now)
- Bonus Carnage: Cyclist Killed in Hit and Run in the Valley (Nixie)
- Mmmmm, This Is Delicious Cake I Have. I Think I’ll Have Some (The Same People That Said Cyclists Aren’t “Special”)
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