• LADOT Shared Photo Of Under Construction 7th Street Curb-Protected Bikeway (Twitter)
• Time To Stand With Low-Income Street Vendors and Support S.B. 972 (L.A. Taco)
  …LAist Explains S.B. 972
• Metro Planning Bus-Only Lanes On Sepulveda In San Fernando Valley (@numble Twitter)
• Street Racing Crashes, Deaths Are Rising (Daily News)
• Sierra Madre Removed Bike Lane To Add Parking (Biking in L.A.)
• Traffic Deaths Are At A 20-Year High. What Makes Roads Unsafe? (NPR)
• Carnage: Ex-CHP Officer, Who Killed Pedestrian While Speeding To Work, Faces Charges (LB Post)
• Thieves Steal Prius Catalytic Converters (LAT)
• LAT Editorial Gets Whiny About NYC Congestion Pricing
• KTLA5 Gets Whiny About NY State “Ending Speeding”

Calendar extra:  Thursday 9/7 – L.A. City Councilmember Nithya Raman, the Department of Recreation and Parks, the Griffith Park Advisory Board, the Hollywood United Neighborhood Council, and the Los Feliz Neighborhood Council are hosting a Griffith Park Safety and Mobility Improvements Open House. The in-person event will be tonight from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Friendship Auditorium at 3201 Riverside Drive in Los Feliz. There will be a presentation on the latest work in the ongoing study, with a viewing of presentation boards, plus questions and answers. Details at Raman Twitter. Go to event webpage to RSVP.

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• CA’s Broiling Heatwave Is Different Than Previous (LAT)
  …CA Sets Record For Power Usage (LAist)
  …When Will This Infernal Heatwave End? (Daily News)
• Beverly Hills Is Doing A Transit Feasibility Study
• Caltrans Clearing Unhoused Residents, Trash, and Hardscaping L.A. Freeway Margins (NBC4)
• L.A. Mulls Creating Office Of Unarmed Response (Beverly Press)
• Apply To Serve On Metro’s Youth Council (SMDP)
• Carnage: Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Pedestrian In Northridge (Daily News)
  …Newhall Area 14 Freeway Crash Sends Four To Hospital (SC Signal)
• Westwood Vacant Tiny Homes Are Another VA Failure (Knock)
• Torrance Tiny Home Village A Success Two Months In (Daily Breeze)
• 68-Unit Mixed-Use Planned Near Santa Monica/Vermont Station (Urbanize)
• 77-Unit Mixed-Use Nearly Complete On Venice In Mar Vista (Urbanize)
• Why CA Parking Reform Matters For Climate and Housing (Governing)

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• Climate Emergency New Normal: Record-Breaking Heatwave Continues (LAT, Daily Breeze, LB Post, KTLA5)
• L.A. Move To End Neighborhood Oil Drilling Moving Too Slowly (LAist)
• LAist on Portantino Bill S.B. 457 Incentive For Car-Free/Light Families
  …in covering car-free incentive, article assumes reader has a car
• LAT on CA Banning Future Gas Car Sales
• Carnage: Two People Killed In Valinda Car Crash (SGV Tribune)
  …Driver Killed In Lancaster Crash (AV Times)
  …Three People Transported to Hospital from 14 Freeway Crash In Acton (SC Signal)
• Washington Neighbors Calls For Street Safety Improvements (LB Post)
• 278-Home 19-Story Supportive Housing Tower Construction Goes Vertical (Urbanize)
• ICYMI: LAPD Sergeant Fired at Jermaine Petit from Inside Patrol Vehicle. While Driving. (SBLA)

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• Climate Apocalypse Watch: Severe Heatwave Breaking So Cal Records (LAT, CNN, Guardian)
  …And It’s Not Letting Up Before Next Wednesday (Daily News)
  …The Hillsides Are Burning – (LAT: Castaic – San Diego – Yosemite, NPR, CBS)
  …And It’s Too Hot For Firefighters (LAT)
  …reminder: about half of L.A. County greenhouse gas emissions are from transportation, about 4/5ths of that is from car tailpipes (Metro)
• LAPD Releases Video In Petit Shooting (@sahrasulaiman Twitter)
• Bicycling Profiles Jimmy Lizama and His Koreatown Shop Relámpago Wheelery
• Metro Running Football Game Shuttle From C (Green) Line Hawthorne/Lennox Station (The Source)
• Carnage: One Dead In Car vs. Truck Crash In Palmdale (KTLA)
• Whittier Approves 52-Apartment Complex, Despite Parking Concerns (Whittier Daily News)
• A Tour Of Some L.A. Red Car Relics (The Reid Less Traveled YouTube)
• L.A. Gas Prices Set Labor Day Weekend Record (LAT)

For the Labor Day weekend, Streetsblog L.A. will publish lightly today and return on Tuesday.

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