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The Metro board suspended the agency's lower 710 Freeway widening project. Image via Metro presentation

Metro Board Suspended 710 Freeway Widening, Approved: Budget, Fareless, and Bus Rapid Transit

By Joe Linton | May 28, 2021 | No Comments

710 widening suspended, Fareless transit pilot approved, $8B FY22 budget approved, and Colorado Blvd route selected for Eagle Rock BRT

The Metro board is pushing to provide free transit for LAUSD and other students. Photo via Metro student pass webpage

Metro Fareless Pilot Could Start August 2021, Initially for Students

By Joe Linton | Apr 21, 2021 | No Comments

The details are still not finalized, but Metro's Fareless Transit Initiative could start for students in August, then for low-income riders in early 2022.

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]."

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