Thursday’s Headlines
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By
Joe Linton
9:16 AM PST on January 11, 2024
- 2023 L.A. City Traffic Deaths [330] Surpassed Murders [327] (NBC4)
- Traffic Violence Die-In Protest Announced For Jan 27 (SAFE)
- Metro Scales Back LinkUS Union Station Run-Through-Tracks Project (Urbanize)
- Supervisors Support Palmdale Rail/Bus Manufacturing Center Proposal (AV Times)
- Slow Progress On City Park Construction Under 6th Street Bridge (Urbanize)
- Advocates Push For More Parks In Black Communities (Sentinel)
- Feds Announce Electric Car Charging Infrastructure Grants (ABC, CA list)
- Carnage: Motorcyclist Killed In Redondo Beach Car Crash (KTLA)
- Governor Proposes Budget Cuts To Bike/Walk/Climate Programs (Biking in L.A.. LAist)
- LAT Blames Budget Woes On Mother Nature [meaning: human-induced climate disasters]
- More State Budget Headlines at SBCA
- Daily News Opinion Calls Metro A Boondoggle Bigger Than High-Speed Rail
- Neither Metro rail nor CA High-Speed Rail are boondoggles
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