Today’s Headlines
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By
Joe Linton
9:01 AM PDT on April 24, 2014
- Metro Board Meeting Today: Regional Connector, First/Last Mile, Express Lanes (The Source)
- Also at Metro: State Active Transportation Program ATP (Safe Routes To School CA)
- Car-Free Angeleno Makes Great Case Against Cars (Vice)
- New Map for Bicycle Tourism Explorations in Downtown Long Beach (DTLB)
- Sky-High Rent? Raise Minimum Wage and More (LAT)
- Jury Awards $3M To Victims In Texas Fracking Case (LAT)
- Connect LB to the San Fernando Valley: LA River DTLA Gap Closure Proposal (Longbeachize)
- Taking A Safe Cycling Class (KCRW)
- L.A. Highway Toll Lanes Work (LAT)
- Silver Lake Hillside Stairway Poetry (Eastsider)
- 2 Dead, 5 Injured in Irvine Freeway Crash (LAT)
- Guardian UK Earth Day Hero: Santa Monica’s Pam O’Connor (Santa Monica Next)
- LADOT Video Wants Drivers To Stop Before the Crosswalk (YouTube)
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