Today’s Headlines

• New Gold and Expo Rail Lines Entering Final Stages For 2016 Openings (SGV Tribune)
• “Route Performance Index” Metric For Every Metro Bus Line (Better Institutions)
• Read/Watch Don Ward’s Great Glendale-Hyperion Bridge Speech (L.A. Walks)
• Renderings Of Planned Affordable TOD At Red Line MacArthur Park (Urbanize)
• Communities Vs. Fuel Tanker “Bomb Trains” Along L.A. River (KCET)
• Tim Papandreou Welcomes the Shared Transportation Revolution (NRDC)
• LADOT Builds Accessible People St Project Mapping Tool (Esri Press Release)
• Long Beach To Get Metro Call For Projects Funding For Great Stuff (LongBeachIze)
  Call For Projects To Fund Bike Infrastructure In SFV (CiclaValley)
  Bike Coalition E-News Metro Call For Projects Summary Below – after the jump
  Full Countywide Call For Projects Recommendations (Metro PDF)
• Carnage: Speeding Ralphs Parking Lot Crash Kills Two (Glendale News Press)

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From the L.A. County Bicycle Coalition e-newsletter:

Metro Announces $200 Million for Multimodal Transportation Projects

 Last week, Metro released their funding recommendations for their biennial Call for Projects, one of the main sources of funding for local transportation projects in Los Angeles County. Bicycle projects secured $30 million, including some very exciting new bike paths and protected bike lanes, including:

• Complete streets enhancements for Colorado Blvd in Eagle Rock
• Bike-friendly business districts throughout Los Angeles
• New access points and amenities along the San Gabriel River and Rio Hondo bike paths
• Bike share in Pasadena, West Hollywood and Beverly Hills (Congrats WeHo Bicycle Coalition!)
• Protected bike lanes in downtown Pasadena and along Chandler Blvd in the San Fernando Valley
• Bike-friendly streets for Mid-City in Los Angeles (Congrats Mid-City West NC!)
• Connecting the new Bixby Memorial Bike Path in the Port of Long Beach to the LA River bike path
• 17 miles of new bike lanes from the Downey Bicycle Master Plan (Congrats Downey Bicycle Coalition!)
• 9 miles of new bikeways from the Pomona Active Transportation Plan (Congrats Pomona Valley Bicycle Coalition!)
• A new bike path along Railroad Ave in Newhall (Congrats Santa Clarita Valley Bicycle Coalition!)

Unfortunately, this funding continues to fall far short of the demand with a large number of high-scoring bike projects going unfunded. Less than 1% of the county’s transportation funding goes to walking and biking combined. LACBC continues to work with our partners to advocate for more funding for biking and walking projects at the local, regional and state level.