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Crenshaw/LAX rail line testing - photo via Metro's The Source

Most of Metro’s New Crenshaw/LAX Light Rail Line is Substantially Complete – Opening Could be December 2022. Update: CEO “Fall 2022”

By Joe Linton | Mar 18, 2022 | No Comments

If all goes well - which hasn't been the case for Crenshaw/LAX so far - the new rail line could open to the public as early as this December, though early 2023 is likely

LAPD patrolling Metro - capture from 2017 Metro video

Sheriff Villanueva Is Opposing Metro’s Slow Moves Toward Transit Policing Reform

By Joe Linton | Nov 23, 2021 | No Comments

Metro transit policing will be on next week's board meeting, though the reform process will continue to be before the board in the coming year as Metro's five-year multi-agency policing contract comes up for renewal

Priorities All Wrong: Metro Proposes Delaying Service Restoration While Increasing Money for Policing

By Joe Linton | Feb 22, 2021 | No Comments

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.

Rendering of rainwater capture creekbed feature proposed along the L.A. River at Griffith Park Ferraro Soccer Fields - via L.A. County

L.A. County Seeks Public Input on New L.A. River Plan

By Joe Linton | Jan 13, 2021 | No Comments

The new L.A. County river plan includes bike/walk trails, big projects, strategies to address affordability and housing, and more.