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Open streets, transit rider for Metro board, Santa Monica, Mayor Karen Bass, D Line, homeless count, parking, LAPD, ICE, Pasadena, car-nage, and more

By Joe Linton

10:52 AM PDT on July 24, 2026

CicLAvia in 2025. Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog

More On Metro Finding Funding For Open Streets (KCAL, Biking in L.A.)
More On Getting A Metro Transit Rider On the Metro Board (LAist, Daily News)
More On Santa Monica Automated Bike Lane Enforcement (LAT)
More On Bass Metro Priorities (Sentinel)
More D Line Under Construction (SBLA Instagram Reel)
L.A. Keeps Forcing New Development To Widen Streets (opusgary Instagram)
L.A. Homeless Count Increases (LAist, KCAL, Westside Current)
LAPD Rarely Acts On Racial Bias Complaints (LAT)
Parking Scarce On the LB/Paramount Border (LB Post)
New Bike Lanes Installed On Terra Bella Street (LADOT Instagram)
Anti-ICE Protests At NoHo Station (SFV Sun)
Pasadena CSC Urges Cyclists to Sidestep Culture Wars
Carnage: Driver Killed In Pico Rivera 605 Freeway Crash (Eastsider)
So Cal Heat Wave Continues (KTLA, GNP, Spectrum1)

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