Jessica Meaney
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Today’s Headlines
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Mark Ridley-Thomas Found Guilty of Corruption (Daily News) L.A. County Keeps Shrinking. Will There Be a Rebound? (LAT) Video Shows ‘Idiocy’ of Re-Move Culver City (Biking in L.A.) Intersection Named After Founder of El Cholo Restaurant (Daily News) County Officially Ends COVID-19 Emergency (LAT) Motorists Blame Bike Infrastructure for Own Bad Driving (Jalopnik) There’s a […]
Sponsored Post : Seven Reasons to Embrace Open-Loop Ticketing Now
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Open-Loop Ticketing Systems have been slower in getting established in the U.S. compared to Europe, but new bankcard technologies and rising consumer expectations have been quickly changing that. Covid-19 health concerns have added urgency to the need to quickly find and adopt contactless and flexible payment systems.
Alhambra Planning to Reconfigure its 710 Freeway Stub
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The city presented a batch of ideas that increase capacity and use of the 10 Freeway, but also includes some protected active transportation facilities
Talking Headways Podcast: The Annual Prediction Show with Yonah Freemark!
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This week, Yonah Freemark of the Urban Institute is back for our annual Prediction Show. This year, we chat about our predictions from last year and next year of course, but also regional rail in France, interesting transportation projects around the world, and the high cost and management of big transit projects.
Today’s Headlines
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7 CHP Officers Charged in Driver’s Death After He Was Pulled Over for DUI (LAT) Regional Connector Train Testing Is Underway (The Source) Bel Air Association Sues Metro Over Subway Public Records Request (@numble Twitter) Police Union Files Suit Demanding Website with Cops Pics Be Taken Down (Daily News) Transit Must Convince Public, Policymakers They […]
Eyes on the Street: Anti-Street-Racing Treatment at Polk and Glenoaks in Sylmar
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L.A. City Councilmember shepherded this centerline hardening pilot treatment as a response to the rampant illegal street racing
Today’s Headlines
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Metro Nearing Completion of Regional Connector Subway (Downtown News) Carnage: Reward Offered For Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Person In Hollywood (KTLA) …Driver Dies In Solo Crash In Whittier (2UrbanGirls) …Person Killed, Two Injured, In Corona Rollover Crash (Daily Bulletin) Rain Means Lots Of Potholes (LAT) E-Scooter Rider Bemoans Ticket For Sidewalk Riding He Blames On […]
Digging a Little Deeper Into Metro’s FY23-24 Proposed Highway Budget
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Metro shuffles budget items around, which obscures how much its freeway expansion budget is increasing
Today’s Headlines
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LB and Pasadena Using Federal Freeway Takedown Funding (LAist) City Removing Echo Park Anti-Homeless Fence (LAT, LAist, KTLA, Daily News, Eastsider) Progress On LAX PeopleMover (Urbanize) Inglewood Requests Metro Move Centinela Grade Separation Funds To PeopleMover (2UrbanGirls) CA Fails Oil Profits Tax, Passes Oil Company Transparency Bill (LAT, LB Post, LAist) 76-Apartment Affordable Complex Under […]
This Week In Livable Streets
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Metro Budget Theater, construction updates for Purple Line and Rosecrans Marquardt Grade Separation, "Western/Slauson Bus Station" meeting, and more