Joe Linton
Recent Posts
Reimagine Ventura Blvd is About Expanding Car Parking. Why Tout it as Bike Safety Project?
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Unfortunately, this stretch of Ventura Boulevard is a missed opportunity, a step away from multi-modal solutions. Reimagine Ventura Boulevard lacks imagination.
Metro Looks To Widen the 14 Freeway In North Los Angeles County
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Metro, with Caltrans, would widen about 25 miles of the 14 Freeway - between Santa Clarita and Palmdale
This Week In Livable Streets
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Venice Boulevard bus and bike lanes, lower 710 Freeway corridor, San Dimas and La Verne double-tracking, Eastside L Line extension, and more
August 2022 Board Meeting Round-Up: Metro Raises Bus Driver Starting Salaries
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Today the Metro board gave its starting bus operators a raise, approving the outlines of a collective bargaining agreement [staff report] that ups the starting driver salary to $23 an hour. At the start of 2022, Metro bus drivers made $17.75 an hour. In late January, Metro announced a six-month pilot temporarily raising starting wages to […]
City Council Declines to Approve Healthy Streets L.A., Pushing It to 2024 Ballot
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Many speakers and most councilmembers favored the alternative "Safe Streets" proposal being shepherded by Council President Nury Martinez
Healthy Streets L.A. Goes to L.A. City Council Wednesday (Tomorrow)
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Healthy Streets L.A. could take most of the politicking out of the implementation process by requiring the city to add approved bus/bike/walk facilities every time city streets are repaved
L.A. City Bikeway Implementation Decreased in Fiscal Year 2021-22
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The prior fiscal year L.A. tallied 52 new or upgraded bikeway miles; this past year there were just 39.
This Week In Livable Streets
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Healthy Streets L.A. will be voted on by the L.A. City Council this Wednesday
CicLAvia ‘Meet the Hollywoods’ Open Thread
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Tens of thousands of folks enjoyed six miles of car-free streets through Hollywood, West Hollywood, and East Hollywood.
Metro Report: Metro Freeway Expansion Negates Agency’s Other Greenhouse Gas Reduction Efforts
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Metro transit/bike/walk initiatives reduce GHG emissions by 2.7 million MTCO2e, while Metro highway expansions would increase emissions by 2.6 million to 10.1 million MTCO2e
This Week In Livable Streets
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CicLAvia (seek LUH vee uh!) touches down in Hollywood, Metro meetings, and more
Healthy Streets L.A. is Qualified for the Ballot. What Happens Next?
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Healthy Streets L.A. paving-mandated implementation would be slow and ineffective - but it's a lot faster than seven years of heel dragging!