Today’s Headlines

• Today’s Top Story: There’s Oil in ‘Dem Dere Hills! (LAT)
• Today’s Top Story: Conservation Good for the Environment (Daily News)
• The Emerald Necklace: A Greenway Along the San Gabriel River (KCET)
• A Look At Last Week’s National Open Streets Summit (Zevblog)
• CicLAvia A Big Hit, Plenty of Valley Attendees (Daily News, KPCC, KTLA, KNBC, CBS2)
• L.A. Times posted multiple CicLAvia articles, but didn’t quite get the story:
  “Where else does a major city shut down a major street for bicycles? [all over]
  Benefits to Business: Lemonade Stands [what about 1000s of businesses along route?]
  Aggressive Riders Used Bicycle Bells To Scold Slower Riders [do bells scold?]
  Nonetheless, Organizers Claim Success [don’t 10s of 1000s of attendees look like success?]
• A Look At Occidental College’s Bike Share Program (Oxy Weekly via BikinginLA)
• Why There’s No Beverly Hills Freeway (KCET)
• Temple City’s Rosemead Blvd Protected Bikeway Opening Set for May 10th (RosemeadBlvd.Com)
• There’s a Mayoral Race in Long Beach (LAT)
• Twitter Hashtag Fun: #ReplaceBikeWithCar – examples:
   @zachshan Cars don’t need a lane on Avenue A, there’s already one on Avenue D! #ReplaceBikeWithCar
  @MagBebronne “The driver, *who was not wearing a helmet*, died in the collision with the truck” #ReplaceBikeWithCar

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