Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transportation Funding

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

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

Metro Board Approves FY2020 Budget, Locking in Rail Service Cuts

By Joe Linton | May 29, 2019

Metro's $7.2 billion FY2020 budget keeps bus service level, while cutting rail service on Gold, Expo and Blue rail lines.

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.

San Joaquin Council of Governments funded 21 projects throughout the county to improve bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, including adding bicycle lanes to Yosemite Avenue in Manteca. Photo of Yosemite Avenue Alternative 2 courtesy of City of Manteca.

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In San Joaquin County, Local Sales Tax Funds Bike, Ped Projects

By Minerva Perez | Mar 27, 2018

SJCOG awarded funds for 21 projects in San Joaquin County, including off-street bike paths, on-street bike lanes, signaled bike routes, cycletracks, sidewalks, crosswalks, pedestrian crossing beacons, and several studies.

Metro Not Quite Ready for First/Last Mile Funding for Purple Line Phase 2

By Joe Linton | May 26, 2016

Just when the Metro board was on the verge of adopting a policy to incorporate first/last mile, including bike and walk, connections into “the planning, design, and construction of all [Metro] transit projects,” Metro staff postponed including first/last mile connections to the second phase of Purple Line subway expansion. The issue before the board was Metro’s […]

L.A. City Already Looking At How To Carve Up $4B Local Return

By Joe Linton | May 26, 2016

Metro has not yet decided whether to have a Measure R2 sales tax on the November ballot; that will come next month. The voting public has not yet passed the measure by two-thirds; that would hopefully come in November. But the L.A. City Council is already trying to decide how to spend their chunk of the […]

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