Digging a Little Deeper Into Metro’s FY23-24 Proposed Highway Budget
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Metro shuffles budget items around, which obscures how much its freeway expansion budget is increasing
Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Metro Highway Program
Preliminary FY23-24 Metro Budget Would (Again) Increase Freeway Funding, While Cutting Transit
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Metro staff recommendation for next year's budget: a 5 percent increase in freeway construction and a 5 percent decrease in transit construction
Bait and Switch: Caltrans and Metro Quietly Scale Back 71 Freeway Widening in Pomona
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Metro and Caltrans had promoted the project as a nearly 2-mile long freeway widening, with an upgraded pedestrian overcrossing - but it has been scaled back to a 1.5 mile widening with no pedestrian component
Advocates Push to Overturn Metro Rejection of Safer Pasadena Crosswalks
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Next Thursday, the Metro board should overrule staff's rejection, and fully fund Pasadena's safe crosswalks project.
Metro Plans to Start Construction This Year on 605 Freeway Widening in Cerritos
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Metro says the 605/South Street project is multimodal, but fails to add any multimodal features
Metro Board Approves $294 Million to Widen 57/60 Freeways Confluence
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The final phase of 57/60 Freeway construction is anticipated to get underway this Spring, with the widened freeway expected to open around 2026-2028