Wednesday’s Headlines

10:05 AM PDT on July 19, 2023

Why hype untested tech when, for decades, Metro rail has demonstrated highly efficient zero-emission electric mobility? Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog

Metro Honored For Rail Transit Expansion, Fostering Equity (The Source, Pasadena Today)
Residents Who Lost Homes In Botched LAPD Fireworks, Demand Officers Be Fired (LAT)
Knock L.A. Inventories Decades Of Sheriff Department Shootings
Feds Investigate Fatal Tesla Head-On Crash In Tahoe (KTLA)
600+Apartment Complex Planned at Bundy Station (Urbanize)
Heat Worsening Air Pollution (LAT)
- Death Valley Heat Goes Off the Chart (LAT)

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