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By Damien Newton

8:48 AM PST on January 4, 2017

LA News Group Agrees, Big Transpo Stories of 2016 : New Rail, Measure M
But It Was Also a Big Year for Bike Share (Argo)
Is the Drought Over? Not Yet. But We Like the Trend (LAT)
Bike/Ped Fatalities Up in Long Beach, Nationwide (LB Post)
Don’t Call L.A. Housing Growth A “Boom” (Abundant Housing)
Hawthorne Plans Bike/Ped “Safety Sting” Today (Daily Breeze)
LA Playground Law Aimed at Adults w/o Kids Not the Right Fix (Daily News)
We May Not Always Like Everything Metro Does, But At Least They Don’t Passive-Aggressively Block People on Twitter (NY Post)

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