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By
Joe Linton
8:33 AM PDT on May 13, 2016
- Phil Washington’s Record For His First Year As Metro CEO (The Source)
- Downtown Glendale Looks To Raise Parking Meter Rates (LAT)
- Affordable Housing TOD Rising At Mariachi Plaza (Urbanize)
- WeHo Opening Its 200-Space $18-Million Robo-Car-Parking Garage May 24 (WeHoVille)
- All-Door Boarding Coming To Metro Silver Line June 26 (Metro presentation)
- Richard Platkin Explains the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative (Lisa Schweitzer)
- Army Corps Crews Removing Flood Barriers Blocking L.A. River Bike Path (@CorpsLADistrict Twitter)
- Boom Photographs Latino Urbanism
- Driving While Pregnant Is Riskier Than You Think (NPR)
- Car-Share Bridges Gap Between American Egotism And American Salary (New Yorker via Price Tags)
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