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Every time Cynde Soto leaves her home in Long Beach, and commutes to work in downtown Los Angeles, she takes a big risk.  “It is like falling off a cliff… that is how it feels to…

Every time Cynde Soto leaves her home in Long Beach, and commutes to work in downtown Los Angeles, she takes a big risk.  “It is like falling off a cliff… that is how it feels to me, to use the sidewalk,” says Soto, who works for …

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