Today’s Headlines
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8:16 AM PDT on August 23, 2013
- 20/20 Looks at L.A.’s Hit and Run Crisis Tonight (ABC via L.A. Weekly)
- HUGE METRO FAN Takes Poke at Agency Over TAP (My Fox LA)
- Metro Wins Case Against Contractor Who Overbilled on Red Line Construction (Law 360)
- Metro Info Not Available on Google Transit…But It Will Be Soon (The Source)
- Op/Ed: Treat Every Day As Though It Were Carmageddon (LAT)
- 1261 Agriculture Plots in L.A. Limits (Imperial Valley News)
- Gas Prices Fall for 35th Straight Day in L.A. County (Daily News)
- Curbed Has a Laugh at One BH City Council Member’s Plan to Rename SM Blvd.
- Green Caltrain Wonders if Electrification Will be Affected by CA HSR Ruling Setback
- Alpern: Transportation Funding Now on Attack from the “Radical Left” (City Watch)
- Car Crashes Into West Mills Post Office (Daily News)
- Cyclist Injured in Tarzana Earlier This Year Dies, 11th Bike Death in LA in 2013 (Biking in LA)
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