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Foothill Gold Line: Bridge and Crossing Construction Done Up to Pomona
Grade crossings? Done… Bridges? Built... Funding to make it to Montclair? We’ll see about that.
April 12, 2023
Metro Cut Late Night Rail Service, Blamed Regional Connector
Metro cut A Line late night service by 47 minutes, E Line by 46 minutes, Eastside L Line by 31 minutes, and Foothill L Line by an hour and 12 minutes
April 11, 2023
Streets for All Announces ‘Westwood Connected’ Bus/Walk/Bike Campaign
No UCLA student should have to risk their life to get to/from the Expo line, or even just around Westwood Village
April 10, 2023
Alhambra Planning to Reconfigure its 710 Freeway Stub
The city presented a batch of ideas that increase capacity and use of the 10 Freeway, but also includes some protected active transportation facilities
March 30, 2023
Eyes on the Street: Anti-Street-Racing Treatment at Polk and Glenoaks in Sylmar
L.A. City Councilmember shepherded this centerline hardening pilot treatment as a response to the rampant illegal street racing
March 29, 2023
Digging a Little Deeper Into Metro’s FY23-24 Proposed Highway Budget
Metro shuffles budget items around, which obscures how much its freeway expansion budget is increasing
March 28, 2023
Eyes on the Street: Newly Protected Venice Boulevard Bike Lane
Venice Boulevard has long been a popular place to bike, LADOT is improving several miles by adding parking-protection to existing bike lanes
March 27, 2023
Board Extends Metro’s Problematic Transit Policing Contract for Three More Years
Metro currently pays about $150 million per year for its multi-agency policing contract with LAPD, L.A. County Sheriff's Department, and Long Beach Police Department
March 23, 2023
Metro Poised to Waste $8 Million More on Costly ‘Metro Micro’ MicroTransit Pilot
Metro board: please just pull the plug on micro-effective Metro Micro this month. Don't keep throwing bad money after bad money.
March 21, 2023
Friday Newsbits: Bike Lanes and Metro Rail Service/Ridership
Metro rail service and ridership graphs, new bike lanes on Fountain Avenue, newly protected bike lanes on White Oak Avenue, and more
March 17, 2023