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By Damien Newton

9:13 AM PDT on October 8, 2015

Brown Signs Legislation Giving Metro the Greenlight for Measure R 2.1 (The Source, LAT)
MTA Is Storing $1.3 Million in Expired TAP Cards (LA Weekly)
USC Needs Bikes, So Why Is Campus Not More Bike Friendly? (Daily Trojan)
Englander Wants City to Take Cars of People Watching Others Live Fast and Furious Fantasies (LAT)
NFL Owners May Decide What SoCal City to Overwhelm with Car Traffic Soon (Curbed)
CicLAvia! Next Week! Hooray! (LAist)
Meet Metro’s Chief Innovation Officer, If You Didn’t Meet Him at Transportation Camp (The Source)
Conservatives Slam Brown Over Vetoing Legislation That Would Allow Solos in Carpool Lanes (PJ Media)
LAT Readers: Kudos to Metrolink!

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