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Calendar for Metro Outreach on Boyle Heights Projects and a Correction About Tonight’s Meeting
Earlier this week, we mistakenly posted that Primestor, the developer looking to overhaul the space around Mariachi Plaza, would be presenting at the Planning and Land Use Committee (PLUC) meeting of the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council tonight.
January 8, 2015
Metro Postpones Approving ENA for Mariachi Plaza, Gets Blasted for Having it on Agenda in First Place
"Injustice. [...] Lack of accountability. Lack of outreach in our community," a frustrated Teresa Marquez, president of the Boyle Heights Stakeholders Association, told the Metro Board of Directors this morning. "Nobody's talking to us!"
November 13, 2014
Dupont-Walker, Community Press Metro on Surprising Changes Slated for Mariachi Plaza, Demand More Outreach
How can we ensure stakeholder input has value and is incorporated into planning? And, in so doing, help the community feel comfortable in trusting Metro to make sure that happens?
November 7, 2014
Eyes on the Street, er, Rails: Foothill Gold Line Extension Tracks Complete
Last Saturday, Foothill communities celebrated a Track Completion Ceremony for the initial phase of the Foothill Gold Line extension. Local leaders installed the final "e-clip" which attached the rail tracks to the rail ties. Streetsblog didn't actually make it out to Azusa for the event; find coverage at ABC, CBS, The Source, and Railway Age.
October 20, 2014
Gold Line Foothill Extension Photo Tour: Transit Oriented Development (TOD)
In this fourth installment of the Foothill Gold Line Extension photo tour series, we explore planned Transit Oriented Developments (TOD) around some of the line's future stations.
July 7, 2014
Editorial: Why Raise Fares When Metro’s Building Even More Free Parking?
A couple of weeks ago, I posted an editorial asking Why Raise Metro Fares While Giving Away Metro Parking? At the time, I totaled parking for Metro's BRT and rail lines at 19,450 parking spaces. Despite Metro's plan to increase transit fares, the agency has no plan to increase parking charges. Metro gives more than 9 out of 10 spaces away for free. I did a conservative estimate of Metro's parking revenue potential to be at least $3.5 million per year.
April 15, 2014
Updated Report Shows CAHSR’s GHG Reductions Less Costly Than Thought
UCLA's Lewis Center revised some of the estimates in its recent report comparing the costs of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions using California high-speed rail to those of bike, pedestrian, and local transit projects. The report's authors found that high-speed rail is not as expensive as an emission reduction as they first thought.
April 9, 2014
Report: In Cutting Emissions, CAHSR Expensive Compared to Local Upgrades
Streetfilms featured Los Angeles' Orange Line BRT and bike path in 2009. A new UCLA report says infrastructure projects like the Orange Line are a better way to invest cap-and-trade funds than CA High-Speed Rail.
March 25, 2014
Second Time is Not a Charm: Community Still Vociferously Opposed to Plans for Lorena Plaza in Boyle Heights
What had ever happened to the plans to turn the space on the corner of Lorena and 1st St. into a fitness parklet?
February 21, 2014
Eastside Access Project Takes Another Step Forward, Experiences Growing Pains
As I walked along 1st St. last week, I came across a gentleman standing outside a storefront, staring at the square of dirt where a huge ficus tree had once stood.
September 27, 2013