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Report: Waze Turns Echo Park Street Into A Nightmare

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Waze , the Google-owned navigation app, apparently has turned a street in Echo Park into a nightmare, according to the LA Times' Steve Lopez. Apparently, Waze's algorithms have been increasingly diverting drivers onto the extremely steep street--particularly in rainstorms--resulting in a litany of pileups and accidents.

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Mayor Garcetti Launches BlueLA, New EV Car Sharing Program

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The new program, which is being run by Blue Solutions , will initially offer up electric vehicles in the Westlake, Pico Union, Koreatown, Echo Park, and Downtown Los Angeles areas of Los Angeles, and specifically is aimed at expanding access to electric vehicles to low-income and disadvantaged communities.

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Chris Hollod On Investing With Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Ron Burkle

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They think I live in Hollywood, but there's Santa Monica, Venice, Echo Park, Silverlake, there's a scene downtown, I can go for a walk in the hills, I can go take a walk on the beach, there is just so much going on. I try to tell my friends that all the time. It forces you to not have a myopic view of the world.

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Interview with Mike Macadaan, Urbandig

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For example, there's a bar in Echo Park called the Good Luck Club, which is modeled after a club in Chinatown, and has something called "double happiness", which is Tsingtao and some king of borderline illegal liquor.

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