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KItown for All presenting a large check mocking the city's inability to take broad advantage of federal funding for Project Roomkey. Photos by Joe Linton

Activists Urge L.A. City Expand Project Roomkey Via Unlimited Federal Funds

By Joe Linton | Mar 4, 2021 | No Comments

The FEMA is offering 100 percent reimbursement, but L.A. City is having difficulty finding up-front funding to use hotels as homes for unhoused neighbors

Aim Very Low: LADOT Releases New Strategic Plan Update

By Joe Linton | Mar 2, 2021 | No Comments

LADOT General Manager Seleta Reynolds and Mayor Eric Garcetti set their sights so low they might as well raise the white flag on safety improvements

Metro transit police - via 2017 Metro promotional video

Updates from the February 2021 Metro Board Meeting

By Joe Linton | Feb 26, 2021 | No Comments

Transit policing budget, restoring transit service, fareless transit initiative, Sepulveda Transit Corridor, 5 Freeway cost overruns, and Boyle Heights joint development

Garcetti Funds Extension of Roomkey for 1,200 Rooms, but Council Wants City to Think Bigger

By Damien Newton | Feb 11, 2021 | No Comments

Bonin: "They say where there's a will there's a way; In this case, there has to be a way." Raman: "We need to be ambitious; I've heard the word 'hundreds' but we need be hearing 'thousands' [of new rooms to be added to Roomkey]."

BYD SMART Local 105 union employees assemble a Metro electric bus in Lancaster. Photo by BYD

Metro Continues to Delay Timelines for Bus Electrification Pilots

By Joe Linton | Feb 11, 2021 | No Comments

G (Orange) Line full electrification missed June and December 2020 dates. J (Silver) Line full electrification will miss June 2021, and now expected by December 2021.

Transit advocates rallied and the Metro board restored some transit service

Metro Board Restores $24.3 Million in Cut Transit Service

By Joe Linton | Jan 28, 2021 | No Comments

Funding will restore transit service with priority for high-ridership lines and an emphasis on disadvantaged communities - though service will remain below level it was at one year ago.

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