Joe Linton
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Metro Committee Expected to Vote to Not Build Lower 710 Freeway Widening Project
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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.
This Week In Livable Streets
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Metro budget, Metro committees, bike week, South Pasadena projects, and more
Metro FY23 Budget: Those Freeways Metro Plans to Widen
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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.
L.A. Mayoral Candidates on Transportation
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Candidates Bass, Buscaino, Caruso, de de León, Feuer, Greiwe, Viola, and Wilson in their own words
Does the Building Trades Council Really Believe Freeways Are More Important than Homes?
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Labor is prioritizing a few hours of labor over people's lives, and homes.
Overview of Metro’s Proposed Fiscal Year 22-23 Budget
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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.
Affordable Housing Breaks Ground above Santa Monica/Vermont Metro Station
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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 and LADOT Planning Bus Lanes on Florence Avenue in South L.A.
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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
This Week In Livable Streets
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Council District 15 candidates forum, Metro Public Safety committee, Metro Vermont corridor transit, Metro 10 Freeway Express Lanes, and more
626 Golden Streets Mission to Mission 2022 – Open Thread
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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
United To House L.A. Proponents Submit Signatures To Qualify For November Ballot
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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
Friday Bike Stories Round-Up: Recent Lanes, Metro Bike Share, Rail2Rail
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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