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Caltrans is expanding freeways all over California. Tearing down hundreds of homes and businesses. Don’t believe the “we have completely done a 180” hype. A new Caltrans report – required by 2023 transparency legislation – has the receipts.

Mark your calendar: five miles of ‘Corazon Del Valle’ opens streets are coming to El Monte and South El Monte on November 2! It’s an Active Streets event – brought to you by the same folks who brought you the 110 Freeway Arroyo Fest event.

Plenty of carnage-ridden headlines, too.

  • Friday’s Headlines
    by Joe Linton
    July 24, 2026
    Open streets, transit rider for Metro board, Santa Monica, Mayor Karen Bass, D Line, homeless count, parking, LAPD, ICE, Pasadena, car-nage, and more
  • Metro Board July 2026 Recap: Open Streets Funding, Governance, Freeway Expansion, and More
    by Joe Linton
    July 23, 2026
    It took more than half a year for Metro to approve an additional $1 million for CicLAvia-type events. Other board actions on freeway widening, governance, Pacoima Metrolink, workforce housing, Olympics, and more.
  • Thursday’s Headlines
    by Joe Linton
    July 23, 2026
    Metro Bass priorities, WeHo, CicLAvia, ICE, Omnitrans assault, oil drilling, car-nage and more
  • Mayor Karen Bass Outlines Her Metro Agenda including Fare Free Transit, Bus Lanes
    by Joe Linton
    July 23, 2026
    Bass faintly echoes Mamdani’s “free fast buses” but after three and a half years of mostly Bass inaction at Metro, her election year conversion sounds tepid and unconvincing
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