Newsom Offers Details on Proposal to Spur More Housing
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Would potentially link transportation funding to housing production
We’re Looking for the Most Improved Parking Crater!
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This year's tournament will match up reformed parking craters: Former surface lots that are now filled with city. Send us entries!
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- Metro Studying Improving Trains Between DTLA, Glendale, Burbank (Urbanize)
- Pasadena And Alhambra Working To Get 710 Freeway Stub Sites (SGV Tribune)
- Hilda Solis Motion To Bring Protected Bike Lanes To County Streets
- New Details On Mariachi Plaza TOD Housing (Urbanize)
- LAX People Mover To Break Ground Soon (NBC4)
…Crenshaw Line Opens Next Year, LAX Connection Will Follow Later (Curbed) - 6-Story Mixed-Use Planned Near Expo-Bundy (Urbanize, Curbed)
- 4-Story Housing Site Clearing At Crenshaw’s Leimert Park (Urbanize)
- Merchants, L.A. Studying Express Park Metering For Venice’s Abbot Kinney (Yo Venice)
- Redondo Bch Looks To Spend $18+M To Underground Parking Triangle (Daily Breeze)
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LADOT Operating New ‘LAnow’ MicroTransit Shuttle in Westside Neighborhoods
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LAnow is an on-demand shared-ride pilot shuttle service operating in Del Rey, Mar Vista, Palms, and Venice.
Other Cities Overcame Duke’s Objections to Light Rail
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In Minneapolis and Seattle, a "floating slab" helped mitigate hospitals' concerns about "vibrations" and electromagnetic fields from light rail. So in other words, Duke University basically ignored the facts when it opposed a light rail project.
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- Celebrate Transit Driver Appreciation Day March 18 (The Source)
- CSULA Breaks Ground On New 1500 Bed Dorm (Urbanize)
- Carnage: Cyclist Killed In Fontana Car Crash (Biking in L.A.)
- Sherman Oaks Folks Want Monorail Down 405 Freeway (Daily News)
- 7-Story Housing Project Under Construction At USC/Jefferson Expo Station (Urbanize)
- 65-Unit TOC Housing Planned In Hollywood Near 101 Freeway (Urbanize)
- Safe Parking For Homeless Coming To Glassell Park (Boulevard Sentinel)
- Third Of Times LAPD Used Force Involved Homeless Person (LAist)
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Cartoon Tuesday: Fractured Rib Funnies
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SBLA editor Joe Linton crashed off his bicycle, fracturing a rib.
Trump Proposes Massive Cuts to Transit, Amtrak
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He wants to cut funding for new transit projects 35 percent and slash Amtrak funding. But Congress has ignored him in the past.
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- Why U.S. And L.A. Pedestrian Deaths Are Surging (Guardian)
- Neighbor Survey Gives Little Support For Sunset Walkability Project (WeHoVille)
- 27-Story Chinatown ‘Harmony’ Development Exempt From CEQA Review (Curbed)
- Construction Begins On South L.A. Magic Johnson Park Revamp (Urbanize, Curbed)
- Carnage: Motorcyclist Killed In Beverly Hills Crash (Daily News)
- Pasadena Approves Large-Scale Tesla Charging Site (SGV Tribune)
- Take Metrolink To Coachella Soon (SGV Tribune)
- Disabled People Sue Long Beach, Other Cities, Over E-Scooters (LB Post)
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With the 710 Dead, What Should Alhambra’s Position Be on the 710
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Mayor Jeff Maloney sounds interested in turning the current freeway stub into a park.
Uber Got Off the Hook for Killing a Pedestrian with its Self-Driving Car
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Safety oversight for self-driving car companies is off to a bad start.
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- L.A. City Council Approves “Permanent” Great Street on Venice Blvd. (LAT, Curbed)
…Television Coverage of Diet Controversy Continues to Be Terrible (CBS2)
…Fox 11‘s Is at Least Balanced. - Related: More Butterflies Migrating to SoCal This Year (LAist)
- O.C. Cities Outraged Over Cost of Consultants to Sell Highway Expansion (LAT)
- LAT Readers Push Back on Scooter Article in Letters’ Section
- Debate Over Covered Up Murals at Long Beach Overpass (LB Post)
- California’s New EPA Head Walked the Pacific Crest Trail Before Taking the Job (CALmatters)
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