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    Green Spaces, Bus Design and Radical Cars for LA

    Sustainable cars, public parks and a transit system to make us proud? Could this be the LA you know? We hear from Grand Avenue Civic Park designer Mark Rios about visionary green spaces planned throughout the Southland. Plus, a bus-riding design writer reports on the makeover of the buses, and LA Times auto critic, Dan Neil, has news about  radical cars coming up at the LA Auto show.

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    By Frances Anderton • Nov 21, 2006 • 30m Listen

    Sustainable cars, public parks and a transit system to make us proud? Could this be the LA you know? We hear from Grand Avenue Civic Park designer Mark Rios about visionary green spaces planned throughout the Southland. Plus, a bus-riding design writer reports on the makeover of the buses, and LA Times auto critic, Dan Neil, has news about radical cars coming up at the LA Auto show.

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      Frances Anderton

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