Today’s Headlines

  • Metro (With SCAG) Updating Long Range Plan (LRTP), How Process Works (Investing in Place)
  • EnviroMetro Coalition Urges R2 To Avoid Highways, Benefit Low-Income and Environment (Move L.A.)
  • Response to LAT: No, Downey Is Not the Mexican Beverly Hills (Downey Patriot)
  • Misleading Title, But Scary: 1 in 14 Metro Riders Report Sexual Harassment With Physical Contact (LAT)
    …Usually Sensationally-Titled Curbed: Sexual Harrassement Slightly Down on Metro
  • UCLA Study: L.A. Market Has Least Affordable Housing in USA (KCET)
    …Lack Of Affordability and Evictions Are Spurring Tennant Activism (KCET)
  • Metro Crenshaw Line Aviation/Century Station Falsework Taking Station Shape (Urbanize)
  • Photo Essay On Southern California’s Oil Derrick Strewn History (KCET)
  • Big Blue Bus System Overhaul Begins August 23, Getting Ready For Expo (Santa Monica Next)

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  • In addition to Metro, SANBAG has also released a Draft Long Range Transport Plan which is open for comment until the 12th of August. Unfortunately, it includes such gems as not a single cent for active transportation and relying on widening roads that are already hideously wide to move the county over the next 25 years. If you life, work, or play here in San Bernardino County, you should definitely make a stop by and leave even just a couple words on the proposals.