Today’s Headlines
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By
Joe Linton
9:10 AM PDT on May 12, 2022
- Streets for All Alert: Tell Metro To Stop Widening Freeways
…Metro’s Proposed Budget: Freeway Expansion Up 33%, Transit Expansion Down 8% - USDOT Announces Plans To Fund Much Of San Fernando Valley Light Rail Line (@numble)
- More On Pasadena L Line Rider Attacked, Set On Fire (LAT)
- Council Committee Approves Plan To Inventory L.A. Sidewalks (Investing in Place Twitter)
- Sheriffs Dept. Whistleblower Disputes Villanueva Account Of Head-Kneeling Cover-Up (Witness L.A.)
- Carnage: Hit-and-Run Drivers Kill Two People – In Harbor Gateway, Torrance (Daily Breeze)
…14 Freeway Two Car Rollover Crash Results In Multiple Injures (SC Signal) - 25-Home Supportive Housing Project About To Open In Watts (Urbanize)
- L.A. City Seeks Measure A Funds To Improve Parks (Daily News)
- Burbank Plans $22M Infrastructure Package, With Some Sidewalk and Bike Projects (Leader)
- Historic Filipinotown Arch Debuts (Urbanize)
- E-Scooter Ridership Hasn’t Fully Recovered Pandemic Losses (SMDP)
- SMDP Ignores 40+ Cars In Photo To Blame Slow Scooter For PCH Traffic Jam
- Lost L.A.: Who Killed L.A.’s Red Car Streetcars? (KCET YouTube)
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