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Much of Metro’s Latest 710 Freeway Messaging Sounds All Too Familiar
Stay tuned - probably for another decade - to find out if Metro's latest community messaging is sincere, or just another iteration of the past couple decades of lip service to a community-driven process.
December 9, 2021
Metro Moving Forward with Rosecrans/Marquardt Grade Separation
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
December 7, 2021
CicLAvia South L.A. 2021 – Open Thread
Tens of thousands enjoyed the five-mile long route on portions of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Crenshaw Boulevard
December 6, 2021
Metro Approves Transit Policing Contract Extension, While Setting Up Some Shift to Alternatives
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
December 3, 2021
Metro Leaders Make False Claims at North County 5 Freeway Widening Groundbreaking
Does anyone really believe that this freeway expansion will really clean the air? Advance equity? Is suburban highway widening any kind of equity model for other projects in the region and the state?
December 1, 2021
Eyes on the Street: New Bus Lane on Grand Avenue in Downtown L.A.
The new southbound Grand Avenue bus lane extends just over one mile - from Hope Place to Pico Boulevard. It forms a couplet with a northbound bus lane on Olive Street.
November 29, 2021
Sheriff Villanueva Is Opposing Metro’s Slow Moves Toward Transit Policing Reform
Metro transit policing will be on next week's board meeting, though the reform process will continue to be before the board in the coming year as Metro's five-year multi-agency policing contract comes up for renewal
November 23, 2021
Metro Celebrates Completion of Rosa Parks Station Revamp
"I think sister Parks would be proud," declared Supervisor Holly Mitchell
November 19, 2021
Metro CEO Wiggins Moves Highway Program Under Planning – To Encourage Multimodal Projects
In order to encourage multi-modal projects, Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins recently moved highway projects under the agency's department of Countywide Planning & Development.
November 16, 2021
L.A. Times Analysis Shows Racist Harms of Freeway Projects
In five states - California, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas - the Times found that large highway building projects demolished homes predominantly in Black and Latino neighborhoods
November 12, 2021
