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Mayoral Candidates’ Thoughts about Metro Given Only Brief Moment to Shine in Cal State L.A. Forum
In between some weird questions and the sparring matches with Caruso, candidates were asked when they last rode Metro
May 2, 2022
Pasadena Re-Examining Key Environmental Metric – Vehicle Miles Traveled
Pasadena is looking at a key planning tool "Vehicle Miles Traveled," with big implications for walkability, bikeability, transit, and housing
January 13, 2020
New Metro Report: Understanding How Women Travel
Metro's new report lays the groundwork for Metro efforts to improve women riders' experience via an upcoming Gender Action Plan.
September 27, 2019
Youth Perspectives on Transportation: Free Public Transit for a More Just, Equitable, and Sustainable Urban L.A.
Building a broad-spectrum transit coalition will require removing the biggest barrier to use: transit fare
September 13, 2019
New Video Explains UCLA Study on Transit Ridership Decline
A new video shows UCLA research on why transit has declined, and what can be done to bring it back.
June 7, 2018
Mobility Justice Advocates Gather in Leimert Park for Untokening California
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.
November 10, 2017
ACT-LA Video Makes Case For Affordable Transit-Oriented Housing
The Alliance for Community Transit - Los Angeles has produced a new video exploring issues of housing, transit, gentrification, and displacement in South L.A.
February 9, 2017
Manuel Pastor’s Recommendations for Metro’s 2016 Ballot Measure
At Move L.A.'s Transportation Conversation 8 yesterday, USC professor Manuel Pastor had a list of recommendations for Metro as the agency seeks to finalize and pass its anticipated $120 billion November sales tax measure. For many years, Pastor has been an important voice for equity and justice. Adopting his recommendations would go a long way to truly embedding equity in coming decades of Metro expenditures.
May 24, 2016
Lessons From UCLA’s TransportationCamp
What do you get when dozens of transportation professionals, technologists, and others interested in improving urban transportation networks all in one room at UCLA on a Saturday morning? The answer is Los Angeles’ very first TransportationCamp.
October 6, 2015
Technologists and Transportation Professionals Meet at TransportationCamp Los Angeles
2015 is an exciting time for transportation innovation in Los Angeles. We have a rapidly-expanding frequent transit and bicycle network. Technological innovation has already brought us reliable point-to-point mobility for passengers, real-time transit arrival and traffic incident information, and even “feeding the meter” from a phone.
July 13, 2015