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9:16 AM PST on January 11, 2024

Last night’s traffic violence: deadly car crash on First Street in Koreatown. Photo by Jamie Penn

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)
- Driver Strikes/Kills Pedestrian In Palmdale (AV Times)
- GoFundMe Successful For Santa Clarita Car Crash Victim (SC Signal)
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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