Recent Streetsblog LA posts about highway expansion

Billions of Metro dollars at work - widening the 5 Freeway. Photo: Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

Metro Construction Chief: Most Metro Highway Projects Don’t Affect Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Joe Linton | Feb 21, 2020 | No Comments

Richard Clarke: "Most Metro highway projects... don't affect Vehicle Miles Traveled or greenhouse gas emissions, because they're focused on specific locations where congestion already exists"

Caltrans Settles Environment Lawsuit, Cancels High Desert Freeway Project

By Joe Linton | Oct 2, 2019 | 49 Comments

Thanks to a Climate Resolve lawsuit, Caltrans has agreed to halt work on the Metro-funded High Desert Corridor freeway

Among requests that Metro is refusing to fund: Alhambra City shuttle service. Photo via cptdb.ca

Groups Urge Metro Not to Approve Car-Centric SGV Projects Replacing Canceled North 710 Freeway

By Joe Linton | Sep 25, 2019 | 3 Comments

Metro's zombie engineers are pushing a half-billion dollars worth of projects that will force more car traffic into the San Gabriel Valley

The High Desert Freeway would connect Palmdale/Lancaster to Victorville/Apple Valley/Adelanto. Map via Metro

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Wrongheaded High Desert Freeway Named a Top National Boondoggle

By Joe Linton | Jun 18, 2019 | 29 Comments

Proponents have smeared a lot of lipstick on their $8 billion, 63-mile highway project, but it's still a pig

Still from Caltrans April 2019 video showing the $1.3B cost of cost of 5-Freeway North

Caltrans Lies Again: Widening 5 Freeway Will “Minimize Congestion… Reduce Pollution”

By Joe Linton | Apr 19, 2019 | 34 Comments

Caltrans is lying. Again.

L.A.'s transit workhorse: the Metro bus. Photo via Wikimedia

What Projects Should Be Accelerated for the 2028 Olympics? How Can These Advance Equity?

By Joe Linton | Feb 8, 2019 | 14 Comments

For 2028 Olympics project acceleration to foster equity, don't speed up highway projects. Instead focus on improving the bus system.

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