Ryan Price
Recent Posts
Can’t California Find a Better Way to Get to Vegas?
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A 20-mile backup into Nevada most weekends translates to: California needs to widen that highway. That's a habit we need to break.
Metro Moving Forward with Rosecrans/Marquardt Grade Separation
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New road/rail grade separation in Santa Fe Springs - plus updates on other L.A. projects to prepare for high-speed rail, including in North L.A. County
Study: Drivers Responsible For Way More Ammonia Pollution Than Previously Thought
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Federal and state agencies may be underestimating the amount of dangerous ammonia emissions that cars pump into the atmosphere by as much as a factor of five, a new study finds — and maybe more in urban areas.
Today’s Headlines
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Past Dec 1 Deadline, 28% Of Metro Workers Have Not Reported Vaccination Status (LAT) Recap Of Last Week’s Metro Board Meeting Decisions (The Source) …Recap Of Last Week’s Board Approval Of Extending Transit Policing Contract (The Source) Carnage: Highland Park DUI Driver Crashes Into 4 People and Gas Station (Eastsider) …Driver Crashes Into, Kills Good […]
This Week In Livable Streets
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Metro's lower 710 Freeway widening listening sessions, Rock the Boulevard and more
STUDY: Transit Agencies Are Planning a Radically Equitable COVID Recovery
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A staggering 88 percent of U.S. transit agencies expect that historically disenfranchised riders will be their primary customers as they recover from the pandemic, a new study finds.
CicLAvia South L.A. 2021 – Open Thread
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Tens of thousands enjoyed the five-mile long route on portions of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Crenshaw Boulevard
Today’s Headlines
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L.A. Looks To Turn Some Caltrans 710 Freeway Homes Into Affordable Housing (LAist, LAT) Metro Motion Looks To Get Agency In Position For High-Speed Rail Funds (Colorado Blvd) Metrolink Shutting Down San Bernardino Line For Two Days (Whittier Daily News) Carnage: Couple Killed In Manhattan Beach Crash (Daily Breeze) …Norwalk Driver Sentenced For 6 Years […]
Metro Approves Transit Policing Contract Extension, While Setting Up Some Shift to Alternatives
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The one year contract extension combines with other Metro approvals to queue up a planned partial shift of resources away from armed law enforcement to a community safety approach
Talking Headways Podcast: Optimism on Infrastructure
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This week we’re joined by Linda Samuels, associate professor of urban design at Washington University in St. Louis, to talk about her book "Infrastructural Optimism." We chat about how growth for growth’s sake is not the answer, learn from postmodernist urbanism, and why systems should be more connected.