Metro Postpones Approving Transit Policing Cost Overruns – for the Third Time
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The proposed $36M increase to Metro's transit policing budget will be heard at next week's board meeting
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Activists Urge L.A. City Expand Project Roomkey Via Unlimited Federal Funds
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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
Priorities All Wrong: Metro Proposes Delaying Service Restoration While Increasing Money for Policing
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Many on the Metro board and in the public are scratching their heads on Metro doubling down on discriminatory practices at a moment when they had pledged to address the agency's historic role in perpetuating that kind of harm.
Garcetti Funds Extension of Roomkey for 1,200 Rooms, but Council Wants City to Think Bigger
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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]."
Metro Board Restores $24.3 Million in Cut Transit Service
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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.
Metro To Consider Left-Side Bus Boarding For Bus Rapid Transit Lines
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Left-side boarding would give Metro greater flexibility in planning for new high-profile Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines, including Vermont Avenue, North San Fernando Valley, and North Hollywood to Pasadena.