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Preview Some of the Design Options for the Slauson Segment of the Rail-to-River Bike/Pedestrian Path
In a year that has been mostly terrible from start to finish, it is nice to end on a positive note with happy drawings of how a blighted corridor might be transformed in a deserving neighborhood.
December 22, 2016
#DamienTalksSGV 24 – Editor Joe Linton’s 2017 SGV Year In Preview
This week, #DamienTalks with SBLA editor Joe Linton, who has a lot to say on what the biggest 2016 SGV story was, and what the biggest stories will be in 2017.
December 15, 2016
Rail-to-River Route Through Huntington Park, Bell Emerges as Best Candidate; Community Meeting December 8
Spoiler alert: of the four options Metro is considering, the Randolph Street option (B4) has ranked the highest. Not only would it help connect residents to more schools and other important community destinations, it would be able to provide residents with the safest way to reach those destinations. Best of all, it would add over four miles to the bike/pedestrian path and connect users to the river and the existing bike path there.
December 2, 2016
Metro Board Delays Transit Policing Contract For Three Months
At the end of today's nearly 6-hour Metro board of directors meeting, the vote on the staff-recommended $547 million multi-agency transit policing contract was pushed back three months. Metro's new transit policing arrangement would scale back the L.A. County Sheriffs Department's current role in favor of a majority of the work being done by LAPD.
December 1, 2016
Metro Board to Consider $547M Multi-Agency Transit Policing Contract
This Thursday, Metro's Board of Directors will consider a new contract for policing the agency's transit systems. Metro staff has recommended a five-year multi-agency policing proposal totaling $547 million. The proposal would split policing between the city of Los Angeles Police Department, LASD, and the city of Long Beach Police Department:
November 28, 2016
Koretz Takes Credit for Expo Line, While Spreading Blame for Its Flaws
Paul Koretz has delivered is the worst section of the Expo Line. Koretz’ section has a mile-long gap in the bike path. Koretz’ section has kids walking in the street because of a missing sidewalk between the Palms Station and Lycée Français High School.
November 18, 2016
Metro Committee Approves Expanded Paid Parking for 13 Park&Ride Stations
Yesterday, the Metro board of directors Planning and Programming Committee approved phase two of the agency's pilot program to charge for parking at transit stations. The promising new parking programs will maximize parking usage by people who actually ride Metro, while also generating modest revenues instead of ongoing losses.
November 17, 2016
Coalition Celebrates Measure M Passing By Nearly 70 Percent
It is official: Measure M passed. Los Angeles County has voted, again, to tax itself to pay for a suite of projects to facilitate transit, driving, walking and bicycling. Measure M will double Metro's 100 mile rail system over the next 40 years. As of this morning, Measure M achieved its needed two-thirds and is currently passing by 69.82 percent.
November 10, 2016
Cartoon Tuesday: Jay Leno Drives Foothill Transit’s Electric Bus
Not quite a cartoon, but today we feature a comedian. Watch the above 2012 video from Jay Leno's Garage where Leno learns the ins and outs of the latest in electric bus technology, specifically Foothill Transit's electric buses manufactured by Proterra which recently introduced an upgraded model. The bus features a steel-free balsa wood and fiberglass frame.
November 1, 2016
Metro Asks South L.A. Stakeholders: How Would You Use Rail-to-River Bike/Pedestrian Path?
"They've started work on that bike path!" a South Central bike shop owner announced excitedly after noticing mounds of dirt piled up in the rail right-of-way (ROW) at Slauson and Normandie.
October 26, 2016