Metro To Consider Adopting Transit-to-Parks Strategic Plan
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Metro's Transit to Parks plan includes various initiatives that Metro and other local agencies could do to improve transit access to parks
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Students Ride Free on LADOT DASH Buses Starting This August
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L.A. will provide free DASH transit for K-12 and college students. The one-year pilot starts in August 2019.
Mobility Justice Advocates Gather in Leimert Park for Untokening California
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She had had enough of hearing her community spoken about in offensive ways by well- (and not-so-well-) meaning planners and advocates, enough of giving 110 percent of herself only to realize a fraction of what she put forward was being seen as having value, enough of how disinterested those with power over what happened in marginalized communities remained in the larger picture, and enough of being tokenized.
Metro Deputy CEO Wiggins Previews Proposed Student Pass Program Upgrade
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At this morning’s Student Transit Pass Advocacy Summit at L.A. Trade Tech College, Metro Deputy CEO Stephanie Wiggins announced changes that Metro plans to make to its student transit pass programs. Later this month, the proposed changes will go to the Metro board for approval. At the summit, students representing colleges from around the region […]
Community Organizing Wins the Day: Skills and Enthusiasm of Many to Build Expo for All
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Behind the May 20 opening of the Expo Line to Santa Monica lies the untold story of dozens of dedicated volunteers who worked for decades to make this line happen. Few people know that Expo Line light rail was a glimmer in the eye of Santa Monica city officials as early as 1989. That year they convened […]
Winning Arguments with Your Family: Don’t Fall for the Traffic Trap
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Last week, the Los Angeles Times published a disastrously titled piece entitled “L.A. Expo Line hasn’t reduced congestion as promised, a study finds.” The article is based on a study by the University of Southern California that used traffic monitors to gauge how many cars are driving on the freeway and arterial streets parallel to the […]