Communities

Extending the Foothill Gold Line looked shovel-ready, now Metro will study potential changes, including eliminating Claremont Metrolink Station

Before the Metro board this month are studies on five Metrolink stations, in Claremont, Commerce, El Monte, Northridge, and potentially serving Rio Hondo College. In addition, the Metro board is expected to approve a study on potential upgrades to Metrolink's Antelope Valley line.

Metro is studying transit improvements for the East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor project, primarily along Van Nuys Boulevard. The current environmental studies, released earlier this month, include possible Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), light rail, or transportation systems management (TSM - basically minor low-cost bus improvements). Light rail options studied include a partial subway, though the project is anticipated to be surface light rail.

In the coming years, the central Glendale Narrows stretch of the L.A. River will see three new bridges shared by pedestrians, cyclists, and, on one, equestrians.

Culver City has new "fresh kermit" green bike lanes, and more bike improvements on the way

Metro is beginning to charge $2 for parking at its high-demand stations. Paid parking started this week at the El Monte Bus Station.

Downtown L.A.'s historic Angels Flight railway resumed operations this morning.

A couple of weeks ago, I was visiting the Mar Vista Farmer's Market with my seven-year-old son. Seeing a group gathering petitions for Restore Venice Boulevard's demands that the road diet on Venice Boulevard be immediately ended, I turned off to go in through the side. Earlier in the week, a tweet condemning the person who wrote the weird, racist flyer that was the last straw for a friend and neighborhood councilmember was misinterpreted as being a condemnation of everyone who opposed the road diet. I'm sure I phrased it poorly, but my attempts to clarify had fallen on deaf ears. A lot of people involved in the Restore Venice Boulevard Movement were convinced I, a Board Member of the Mar Vista Neighborhood Council, had called them all assholes.

It won’t be an easy task to get the votes necessary to pass some of bigger-ticket legislation, like S.B. 2 and S.B. 3.