Why Cities Need More “Agile” Streets
When projects are routed through a full capital-improvement workflow, solutions tend toward expensive, permanent interventions - not alternatives that might achieve 80 percent of the benefit at 10 percent of the cost
Metro Committee Again Sides with Nimbys, Postpones Key North K Line Rail Decision
K Line delay empowers anti-rail voices opposed to Metro tunneling far deep beneath homes
Monrovia Seeks Input on Draft Bike Master Plan
The deadline for public comment is this Friday, March 27 2026
Featured Reporting
They Came to Mourn. LAPD Came in Force. Now Two Men Could Face Serious Consequences Because LAPD Won’t Acknowledge They Were Wrong.
The July 7 vigil for Kenny Hall had been peaceful until LAPD arrived and began pushing people around. When peacemaker Shamond "Lil AD" Bennett tried to intervene and de-escalate LAPD, officer Evan Mott assaulted him. When Dontreal Washington protested, officers punched him in the face. Then LAPD arrested them both.
Measure HLA at Two Years: a Timeline of How L.A. City has Resisted Safer Multimodal Streets
With just 300 feet of HLA upgrades in two years, L.A. City's main effort has been to actively block HLA progress
Metro Responds to Missing Downtown Connector Bikeways: Agency Followed Undefined Plans, Prioritized Getting Drivers to Freeway
Metro didn't follow its own designs or city-approved CEQA-approved street standards - instead implementing not clearly defined changes that added car capacity - and omitted bike and walk facilities
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Pasadena Seeks Input for Transit Service Overhaul
Several lines could be condensed on the north side of town, a new line is proposed from Huntington Hospital to JPL, and Dial-A-Ride could give same day service.
