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Today Metro started issuing warning tickets to cars parked in downtown L.A. bus lanes. This expands the joint Metro-LADOT program that’s already issuing $293 tickets using on-bus cameras on Wilshire and La Brea. Other cities have found similar bus lane enforcement programs improved bus speed and reliability, and increased ridership.
Streetfilms premiere, Metro board City Selection Committee meeting, The Willits Slide, Metro 405 Freeway widening, Metro 5 Freeway widening, Hawthorne plans, and more
Three years into Councilmember Raman’s push for a safer Forest Lawn Drive, Mayor Bass anticipates a new design – without eliminating car lanes but with “signal modifications” – will be “forthcoming… very soon.”
Heat wave, fire risk, Paul Bacca, Metro, LAX, Glendale, parking, car-nage and more
Streetfilms premiere, Metro board City Selection Committee meeting, The Willits Slide, Metro 405 Freeway widening, Metro 5 Freeway widening, Hawthorne plans, and more
LADOT is adding a 1.2-mile of new protected bike lanes, connecting cyclists to Union Station and L.A. State Historic Park
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Three years into Councilmember Raman’s push for a safer Forest Lawn Drive, Mayor Bass anticipates a new design – without eliminating car lanes but with “signal modifications” – will be “forthcoming… very soon.”
