The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog LA.
Did you know that OC Streetcar will run on the same West Santa Ana Branch right-of-way as Metro’s future Southeast Gateway Line? (For now, the two projects will be a dozen miles apart.) Streetsblog looks at the latest OC Streetcar construction progress, and looks forward to the anticipated mid-2025 streetcar opening.
There’s a lot going on this week: meetings for bike lane improvements on Forest Lawn Drive and for Metro Vermont Avenue bus improvements, a monthly Metro board meeting, and on Sunday there’s this hip bike/walk/skate thing called CicLAvia, perhaps you’ve heard of it?
The proposed 2.2-mile project would add new protected bike lanes connecting the Metro E Line station to UCLA and would add 1.1 mile of new bus-only lanes. Give your input via online survey.
Prop. 43 would make it harder for Californians to fund transit and transportation projects by giving just over 1/3 of voters the power to block locally backed tax measures.
The proposed 2.2-mile project would add new protected bike lanes connecting the Metro E Line station to UCLA and would add 1.1 mile of new bus-only lanes. Give your input via online survey.
Prop. 43 would make it harder for Californians to fund transit and transportation projects by giving just over 1/3 of voters the power to block locally backed tax measures.
Critics say this move undercuts the standard planning process for safe projects; supporters want a total ban and no new warehouses in South El Monte.
