Joe Linton
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Eyes on the Street: New East L.A. Rainwater Infiltration Medians
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The East Los Angeles Sustainable Median Stormwater Capture Project construction is done, and the native landscape is in full bloom
This Week in Livable Streets
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Metro looking to approve budget increasing freeway funding and decreasing transit funding, 405 Freeway widening, Metrolink board meeting, and more
Metro Leadership Making It an Annual Tradition to Lie about Freeway Expansion Budget
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Metro Planning Chief de la Loza: "[Metro Highway Program FY23 budget] predominant projects are focused on... completing gaps between the HOV system, safety improvements... they're not focused at all on just providing road widening."
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