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By Joe Linton

8:45 AM PDT on July 19, 2024

Yesterday U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited L.A. touting federal infrastructure. Photo via Mayor Bass Twitter

Buttigieg and Locals Tout $77M For Metro Electric Buses (KABC)
What Next For Metro and Caltrans’ 605/5/etc. Freeway Expansion (LAT)
Representative Waters Seeks To Stop Inglewood PeopleMover Project (LAT, 2UrbanGirls)
Metro Board Chair Janice Hahn Makes Point Of Riding Metro More
SaMo Electronic Signs Block Views Of Pedestrians (Santa Monica Next)
Yonah Freemark: Avoid Freeway Transit Stations, For Example Metro C Line (Urban Institute)
LADOT Plans For Six-Way Hollywood/Sunset/Hillhurst/Virgil Intersection (Eastsider)
LB Raises Belmont Shore Parking Rates From $1.75 to $2 (Watchdog)
L.A. Installing New Bus Shelters (BH Beat, Eastsider)
LAX PeopleMover Opening Officially Pushed to January 2026 (KTLA, Urbanize)
Carnage: One Killed, Another Seriously Injured In Head-On La Tuna Canyon Crash (KTLA, Daily News)
- Hit-and-Run Driver Charged In Deadly Soledad Canyon Crash (SC Signal)
- DUI Driver Charged In 3-Fatality Castaic Crash (SC Signal)
Whittier To Revisit Controversial Tree Removal Plan (Whittier Daily News)
Port of LB Breaks Ground On $1.7B Railyard (Watchdog, LB Post)
Relentless Hazardous Heat Forecast Across the West (LAT, CBS)

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