Friday’s Headlines
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By
Joe Linton
9:11 AM PST on March 1, 2024
- Metro Claims 710 Freeway Plan with 4 Miles of New Freeway Lanes is “Not Expanding the Freeway By Any Means Whatsoever” (The Source)
- SBLA reviewed the plan, which reduced Metro and Caltrans’ major illegal 710 expansion to smaller questionably legal 710 expansion, but would not rule out home demolitions for expansion
- Supervisor Hahn tells Metro to stop tearing down homes for 710 expansion
- Metro and Caltrans keep using dubious “Auxiliary Lane” loophole to claim adding more freeway lanes is not expansion
- Metro report: Metro’s freeway expansion worsens greenhouse gas emissions more than Metro transit improves
- L.A. Podcast Talks Gondola, Elections
- Santa Monica Will Improve Bike and Vision Zero Plans (SMDP)
- Santa Monica Big Blue Bus Deploying Private Security (SM Mirror)
- LAPD Crashes Car Into Metro Bus In Chatsworth (KCAL)
- Carnage: LB Hit-and-Run Driver Injures Parent and Child (KTLA, KABC)
- New LB Street Vending Rules Take Effect (LB Post)
- Positive LAT Profile Of L.A.-Vegas High-Speed Rail Plans
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