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By Joe Linton

9:01 AM PST on December 16, 2014

Express Park A Success: Cheaper Meters, More Occupied, Less Cruising (LAT)
Why Freeways Are the Right Place To Protest Ferguson (Zocalo)
LA and LB Receive Bloomberg Grant, Could It Mean More JSK?!?!? (KPCC)
Westsiders Want Fewer Cars, Instead ~~Commit to Walk and Bike~~ Complain (Curbed)
South El Monte, 5th Of 5 Cities, Approves SGV Regional Bike Plan (Bike SGV Fb)
KPCC Interviews Uber Drivers
After Improvements, Metro Blue Line Is Looking Spiffier (The Source)
Tales Of Crappy Bike Parking (Orange 20)
SF Gate Debunks Petroleum Industry’s Gas Tax Rhetoric
Low Oil Prices Making For Bumpy International Economy (LAT)
Price Tags On the Ethics Of the Engineering Profession
NYC CitiBike Bike Share Audit Woes Misleading (SB NYC)
Satire: 3 Million Car Collisions On L.A. Rainy Day (Daily Currant)

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