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Joe Linton

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710 Freeway. Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

Metro Committee Expected to Vote to Not Build Lower 710 Freeway Widening Project

By Joe Linton | May 17, 2022 | No Comments
Metro and Caltrans plan to formally reset their 710 Freeway corridor plans by approving the 'No Build' alternative, as the new Locally Preferred Alternative for their 710 Environmental Document, reversing a 2018 approval of a freeway widening alternative.
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This Week In Livable Streets

By Joe Linton | May 16, 2022 | No Comments
Metro budget, Metro committees, bike week, South Pasadena projects, and more
Wider and wider freeways brought to you by Metro and Caltrans. Sign on the 5 Freeway widening from OC to the 605. Photos by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

Metro FY23 Budget: Those Freeways Metro Plans to Widen

By Joe Linton | May 13, 2022 | No Comments
Last year, Metro increased its annual freeway expansion budget by a whopping 80 percent. This year, the agency has proposed an 33.5 percent increase on top of last year's. Here's a list of Metro big widening projects.
Cyclists at CicLAvia in front of L.A. City Hall. Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog

L.A. Mayoral Candidates on Transportation

By Joe Linton and Sahra Sulaiman | May 13, 2022 | No Comments
Candidates Bass, Buscaino, Caruso, de de León, Feuer, Greiwe, Viola, and Wilson in their own words
The 710 Freeway in Long Beach. Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.
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Does the Building Trades Council Really Believe Freeways Are More Important than Homes?

By Melanie Curry and Joe Linton | May 10, 2022 | No Comments
Labor is prioritizing a few hours of labor over people's lives, and homes.
Metro's glossy FY23 Budget Summary

Overview of Metro’s Proposed Fiscal Year 22-23 Budget

By Joe Linton | May 10, 2022 | No Comments
Metro's $8.8 billion FY22-23 budget includes transit service hours returning to pre-COVID levels, but so did the FY21-22 budget. Metro is also increasing annual funding for freeway expansion, while decreasing annual funding for transit expansion.
Cross section rendering of Santa Monica & Vermont Apartments project currently under construction - via Little Tokyo Service Center

Affordable Housing Breaks Ground above Santa Monica/Vermont Metro Station

By Joe Linton | May 4, 2022 | No Comments
Little Tokyo Service Center's Santa Monica & Vermont Apartments will be 187-units, 100 percent affordable, with half low-income units and half permanent supportive housing for unhoused Angelenos - plus ground floor retail
Metro is planning new bus lanes on Florence Avenue. Image via Google Street View

Metro and LADOT Planning Bus Lanes on Florence Avenue in South L.A.

By Joe Linton | May 3, 2022 | No Comments
New Florence Avenue bus lanes would extend 5.3 miles from Crenshaw/LAX Line Fairview Heights Station (West Boulevard) to the A (Blue) Line Florence Station
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This Week In Livable Streets

By Joe Linton | May 2, 2022 | No Comments
Council District 15 candidates forum, Metro Public Safety committee, Metro Vermont corridor transit, Metro 10 Freeway Express Lanes, and more
626 Golden Streets - photos by Joe Linton/Streetsblog

626 Golden Streets Mission to Mission 2022 – Open Thread

By Joe Linton | May 2, 2022 | No Comments
At the first San Gabriel Valley open streets event since the start of COVID, tens of thousands of attendees biked, skated, scooted, walked and ran on five miles of car-free streets
UNITE HERE Local 11 representative Isela Ramos speaking alongside boxes containing over 98 thousand signatures for United to House L.A. - photos by Joe Linton/Streetsblog

United To House L.A. Proponents Submit Signatures To Qualify For November Ballot

By Joe Linton | May 2, 2022 | No Comments
United to House L.A. gathered 98,171 signatures, well above the roughly 62,000 needed to qualify for the L.A. City November 8 ballot
Metro now anticipates starting Rail-to-Rail path construction this May. Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

Friday Bike Stories Round-Up: Recent Lanes, Metro Bike Share, Rail2Rail

By Joe Linton | Apr 29, 2022 | No Comments
Metro Bike Share funded through mid-2023, Rail-to-Rail path construction now expected in May, and new bikeway on Burbank Boulevard and Second Avenue
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