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By Joe Linton | Mar 5, 2021 | No Comments

County Public Health Warns Against Spring Break Travel Due to COVID (Daily News) Centralizing CA Vaccinations Might Not Serve Vulnerable Communities Well (LAT) Traffic Worse As So Cal Reopens (ABC7) “Neighborhoods Frustrated” By Metro Sepulveda Transit Plans (BH Courier) LAT Video: Driver Slams Into West L.A. Tent Encampment More On Activists Project Roomkey Check For […]

KItown for All presenting a large check mocking the city's inability to take broad advantage of federal funding for Project Roomkey. Photos by Joe Linton

Activists Urge L.A. City Expand Project Roomkey Via Unlimited Federal Funds

By Joe Linton | Mar 4, 2021 | No Comments

The FEMA is offering 100 percent reimbursement, but L.A. City is having difficulty finding up-front funding to use hotels as homes for unhoused neighbors

Azuza Walks Begins Development of Citywide Pedestrian Master Plan

By Kristopher Fortin | Mar 4, 2021 | No Comments

Azusa Walks will provide an overview of the pedestrian travel network in the city, identify barriers, and provide options to improve conditions that will encourage walking such as sidewalks and crosswalk improvements.

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By Joe Linton | Mar 4, 2021 | No Comments

CA Reserves 40% Of COVID Vaccines For Disadvantaged Areas (LAT) …South L.A. Struggles To Get Vaccines (LAist) …Vaccine Outreach To Blacks Important, But Courts Skepticism (LAT) L.A. Slow To Act On Federal Funding For Project Roomkey (LAT, Daily News) CiclaValley Reports On Progress On Chandler Boulevard Protected Bike Lanes Carnage: Driver Killed Plunging Off Bridge […]

Sen. Ed Markey co-introduced four bills that are getting love from green transportation advocates. Source: Victoria Pickering via Creative Commons

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These Four Bills Could Help Loosen Car Dependency’s Grip On U.S. Cities

By Joe Linton | Mar 3, 2021 | No Comments

The next infrastructure package might bring some of sustainable transportation advocates' most long-sought bills back to life — and establish new pots of money for bike lanes, sidewalks, and more.

Parking protected bike lane on Artesia Boulevard in the city of Long Beach. Long Beach due to receive funding for a similar facility on Pacific Avenue. Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

Two Dozen Upcoming L.A. County Walk/Bike Projects Funded

By Joe Linton | Mar 3, 2021 | No Comments

Metro Measure M Active Transportation grants, and CA Transportation Commission Active Transportation Program grants

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By Joe Linton | Mar 3, 2021 | No Comments

California Re-Opening Despite Lingering Risks (LAT) Council Overrides Veto and Tweaks PD Funding Reallocation (@sahrasulaiman Twitter, Daily News, LAT) Lower A Line Maintenance Closure This Weekend (Daily News, The Source) To Save Climate, Stop Gas Guzzlers (LAT) Metro Survey On Walk/Bike Access To Purple Line Extension Phase 1 (The Source) 91.6% of Downey Commuters Drive, […]

Aim Very Low: LADOT Releases New Strategic Plan Update

By Joe Linton | Mar 2, 2021 | No Comments

LADOT General Manager Seleta Reynolds and Mayor Eric Garcetti set their sights so low they might as well raise the white flag on safety improvements

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No One’s Talking About the Best Thing About The New USPS Mail Truck

By Kea Wilson | Mar 2, 2021 | No Comments

If it looks like a duck ... it's probably a better-designed truck!

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By Joe Linton | Mar 2, 2021 | No Comments

First Of Two Purple Line Extension Phase 1 Tunnel Machines Finish Work (The Source) FTA Grants Record of Decision For Metro East SFV Rail (Rebuild SoCal) City Council Plan For $88M Cut From Police Budget (LAT, Daily News) Lawsuit: L.A., Santa Monica & Beverly Hills Used Curfews To Curb Speech (LAT) Carnage: Multiple People Killed […]