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Does downtown Monterey Park really more traffic lanes? Photos courtesy of author

Editorial: Monterey Park City Council Considers Making Garvey Avenue More Dangerous

By Jennifer Love Tang | Feb 14, 2022 | No Comments

Monterey Park is looking to add more car lanes to Garvey Avenue - saying it will reduce congestion - but studies show more lanes means more traffic, plus more pollution and more dangerous streets

LAPD patrolling Metro - capture from 2017 Metro video

Editorial: Metro Board Needs to Reject More Funding for Transit Police

By Joe Linton and Damien Newton | Mar 24, 2021 | No Comments

Don't settle for more punitive policing-as-usual. Don't waste any more time in making good on your promises to reform transit policing.

Atlantic Boulevard in Monterey Park - photo courtesy of author

Editorial: Metro Gives Monterey Park $100+ Million to Improve Transportation… and the City Wants to Build Parking Lots with it?

By Jennifer Love Tang | Mar 15, 2021 | No Comments

Monterey Park is proposing lane expansions and parking lots - with virtually no community engagement. No surveys were sent out. No town halls were conducted. No input from residents on how we want our tax dollars spent.

Metro is refining plans for Bus Rapid Transit between Pasadena and North Hollywood - image via Metro report

Editorial: Solis, Garcetti, Metro – Don’t Reward Eagle Rock BRT Bullies’ Trumpian Tantrum

By Joe Linton | Jul 19, 2019 | 9 Comments

Don't let a handful of lying xenophobic bullies take choices away from Eagle Rock

Measure W would fund projects like the Woodman Avenue green street project which slows and soaks rainwater in a landscaped median. Photo: Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

Streetsblog Endorsement: Yes on Measure W for Clean Water for L.A. County

By Joe Linton | Oct 22, 2018 | No Comments

Measure W would establish a parcel tax to fund clean water, primarily through multi-benefit projects that would green communities throughout L.A. County

Streetsblog L.A. Endorses Measure M

By Streetsblog | Sep 22, 2016 | 11 Comments

There is a lot to like about Measure M, the Los Angeles County sales tax that would fund a mix of transit and other transportation projects throughout the county. For all of the transit, mobility, walkability, bikeability benefits – not to mention health, environmental, and job benefits – across the region, Streetsblog Los Angeles endorses […]

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