Today’s Headlines
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By
Ted Rogers
9:33 AM PDT on August 27, 2013
- Metro Promises Safer — and Prettier — Trains (LA Curbed)
- Meanwhile, LA Promises a More Pleasant Walk from Union Station to DTLA (LA Curbed)
- Drunk Driving Arrests Up Statewide Under CHP Crackdown (Daily News)
- D.J. Waldie Considers 47-Years of Living Car-Free in LA (KCET)
- Tesla Becomes One of State’s Leading Luxury Cars; No Surprise To Anyone Watching Streets (LAT)
- Could a Subway/Expressway Tunnel Under the 405 Be the Solution to Westside Traffic? (FoxLA)
- Remarkably, Damian Kevitt is Back on His Bike 7 Months After Zoo Drive Hit-and-Run (KABC7)
- Maybe LA is the Hit-and-Run Capital Because We Lead in SUVs and Driver Stress (NPR)
- Outrage Continues Over SFPD’s Failure to Investigate Bike Rider’s Death (SFGate)
- Walk or Ride to Celebrate LA’s 232nd Birthday; City Doesn’t Look a Day Over 205 (KNBC4)
- Pharrell Arrives at VMA’s by Bike, Complete with Two-Wheeled Entourage (FitPerez)
- Daily Carnage: Yet Another Fatal Collision and Freeway Shutdown on the Grapevine (LAT)
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