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Metro Sides with Police, Against Riders – Shuts Down System, Shuttles Arrestees
By suspending service and shuttling arrestees, Metro leadership sided with the police, against the needs of its largely Black and brown ridership
June 2, 2020
Garcetti’s LAPD Protest Statements Wildly Miss the Mark
Garcetti offers platitudes and magical thinking as protestors scream to defund the police
June 1, 2020
Friday L.A. Round-Up: Traffic Deaths Spike, COVID-19 Slow Streets, and 7th Street Lanes
New protected bike lanes on the way downtown, first COVID slow streets on the Westside, and LAPD reports a surge in speeding and traffic fatalities.
May 15, 2020
Competing with Challenger Raman, Incumbent Ryu Claims Record of Support for Healthy Sustainable Transportation
L.A. isn't buying Ryu's twitter assertion of his record on "healthy and sustainable" mobility. Ryu has been pro-parking, anti-bikeway, and anti-road-diet.
May 14, 2020
Advocates Call For Quick-Build Walk-Bike Streets During COVID-19
Though cities all over are stepping up to make safe walk-bike streets under COVID-19, L.A. City has clearly not made it a priority
April 24, 2020
As More Drivers Speed Under COVID-19, Reynolds Calls For Speed Law Reform
Under COVID-19, fewer drivers on the road means more speeding. Cities need state speed law reforms to ensure that dangerous speeding doesn't outlast the current pandemic.
April 6, 2020
Bridge Housing Project Opens at the Brentwood V.A. This Saturday
The 50-bed project is for veterans experiencing homelessness
April 2, 2020
As Council Heads to Chambers Today, a Plea that It Abandon the Do-No-Harm-to-Landlords Doctrine
While arguing to limit the grace period tenants would have to pay back any missed rent to six months during the marathon city council session last Tuesday, March 17, Second District councilmember Paul Krekorian beseeched his colleagues to consider the Hippocratic Oath - the pledge physicians make to do no harm - and not enact policies that could have far-reaching negative consequences... for landlords.
March 27, 2020
Councilmember Englander Corruption Indictment Could Derail Councilmember Lee
The indictment alleges "pay-to-play schemes" Englander engaged in from his seat on the City Council's powerful Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee
March 10, 2020
Transportation Committee Approves Green New Deal Motion for Bus, Walk, Bike Network Improvements
The Bonin-Krekorian-Martinez motion mandates a implemenation plans for bus lanes and safe walk-bike-scooter facilities
February 26, 2020
