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High-Speed Rail and Large Asphalt Repair.

By Damien Newton, Joe Linton and Joe Anthony

11:46 AM PST on December 18, 2025

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Since tomorrow is a short day heading into the holiday week, we’re going to do The Week in Short Video a little early this week.

Here’s This Week’s Videos:

Tuesday: California wins the opening round of its lawsuit that would require the federal government to live up to its funding commitments.

@streetsblogcal
California wins round one in their lawsuit to try and restore over $4 billion in high speed rail funds stolen by the Trump Admin. highspeedrail Trump transportationfunding lawsuit
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Thursday: As the debate over “large asphalt repair” continues, Joe tries to explain in lay terms what this newly invented term means…and how LADOT uses it to avoid the voter mandate to create safer streets.

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L.A. City stopped fully resurfacing streets and instead is just doing what they call “large asphalt repair”. Why?? #largeasphaltrepair
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