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Metro Board Approves $36M for Transit Policing Overruns, Plus Safety Alternatives Next Year
Today's approval brings Metro transit policing price up to $150 million per year, well above the $130 million per year approved in 2017
March 25, 2021
Editorial: Metro Board Needs to Reject More Funding for Transit Police
Don't settle for more punitive policing-as-usual. Don't waste any more time in making good on your promises to reform transit policing.
March 24, 2021
Metro Expects to Finish Purple Line Extension Section One Tunneling This Week
Some new details emerged last week on Metro's herculean task of tunneling below Wilshire to extend the Purple Line subway.
March 23, 2021
Metro About to Green-Light Another Highway Mega-Project: North County 5 Freeway Widening
The I-5 North County project would add roughly 32 new lane miles, generating ~275M new vehicle miles travelled (VMT) per year, resulting in ~25,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year.
March 22, 2021
Metro Postpones Approving Transit Policing Cost Overruns – for the Third Time
The proposed $36M increase to Metro's transit policing budget will be heard at next week's board meeting
March 19, 2021
Eyes on the Street: Regional Connector Bridge Construction on Bunker Hill
Metro's Regional Connector subway is expected to open in mid-2022. Work is underway on the pedestrian bridge that will connect the Bunker Hill Station to Grand Avenue.
March 18, 2021
Alliance for Community Transit Publishes New Report on Metro Policing
ACT-LA's report "Metro as a Sanctuary: Reimagining Safety on Public Transit" reviews past Metro transit policing issues and offers solutions to inform Metro's current process to reexamine and reform its transit policing practices.
March 17, 2021
Editorial: Metro Gives Monterey Park $100+ Million to Improve Transportation… and the City Wants to Build Parking Lots with it?
Monterey Park is proposing lane expansions and parking lots - with virtually no community engagement. No surveys were sent out. No town halls were conducted. No input from residents on how we want our tax dollars spent.
March 15, 2021
Ten Reasons to Ditch the Sepulveda Monorail Proposal Now
This week, Metro's Executive Management Committee is considering approving a $63 million contract for further work on a monorail proposal that should have been already been deemed infeasible
March 15, 2021
I-5 Authority Pushes to Exempt Widening Project from Mandated Equity and Environment Evaluation, Asserts Widening Freeway Cleans Air
I-5 JPA "Metro's recommendation for a holistic, equity based examination of the project regarding induced demand and greenhouse gas emissions... is an academic debate" not pertinent to this $5B highway project.
March 11, 2021
