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By Joe Linton

8:06 AM PDT on April 7, 2014

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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