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Metro has installed this new gate to prevent cars from illegally turning left into trains. Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

Eyes on the Street: New Metro Blue/Expo Line Train Gate

By Joe Linton | Feb 16, 2018 | 11 Comments

At the Flower Street 10 Freeway on-ramp, Metro has a new gate arm designed to keep cars from turning in front of trains

The South Central bike shop where cops pulled up and ordered Anthony to get up against the wall. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Webinar on Policing and Mobility Underscores Struggle of Urban Planning to Center Justice

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 9, 2018 | 9 Comments

There is no way forward without a genuine reckoning with the costs that structures empowered to hold blackness at bay continue to exact from people of color.

Councilmember Mike Bonin cuts the ribbon for the Milton Green Street. All photos: Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

Community Celebrates Opening of Milton Green Street Project

By Joe Linton | Feb 2, 2018 | 1 Comment

The newly-completed Milton Green Street connects communities and cleans water.

Southern California per capita transit ridership has declined since 2007 - a new UCLA ITS report examines why. Photo via Wikimedia

New UCLA Study Examines Transit Ridership Decline, Blames Increased Car Ownership

By Joe Linton | Feb 1, 2018 | 11 Comments

Southern California transit ridership has declined since 2007. A UCLA study factors causing it, attributing car ownership increases as a major factor.

Officer drags Bethany Nava off the train at Westlake/MacArthur Park for not removing her foot from the seat where it was propped up. [Image: still from video taken by Brock Bryan.]

Teen Hauled Off Metro Train, Cuffed for Putting Her Feet Up

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jan 23, 2018

As he films the scene unfolding in front of him at the Westlake/MacArthur Park station, Metro passenger Brock Bryan calmly pleads with an LAPD officer to stop manhandling a young woman he dragged off the train for putting her foot up on the seat.

Today Metro celebrated the retirement of Angeli, the Regional Connector's Tunnel Boring Machine. All photos - Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

Metro Retires Regional Connector Tunnel Machine

By Joe Linton | Jan 19, 2018 | 6 Comments

"Angeli" has completed work on two mile-long subway tunnels below downtown L.A.

Metro is expected to approve a new station parking plan that will govern the agency's 24,000+ spaces including these at the Universal City Red Line Station. Photo: Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

Excellent Metro Station Parking Plan Faces Vote Next Week

By Joe Linton | Jan 11, 2018 | 3 Comments

Metro's parking plan would validate that parkers actually ride the Metro system, and would charge for park-and-ride where spaces are more than 90 percent full.

The Rosa Parks Station in Watts, looking toward Long Beach. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Strategy Center Files Lawsuit Seeking Arrest, Citation, and Deployment Data from Metro, Law Enforcement Agencies

By Sahra Sulaiman | Dec 18, 2017 | 10 Comments

Between May and September of this year, the lawsuit Public Counsel filed on behalf of the Labor/Community Strategy Center (LCSC) this past December 13 states, both Metro and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD) failed to adequately respond (or respond at all) to multiple requests for public records regarding policing and fare enforcement practices, breakdowns […]

Leaders break ground on the Foothill Gold Line phase 2B. Photo by construction authority

Groundbreaking Celebrated for Foothill Gold Line Extension 2B, Though Some Issues Remain

By Joe Linton | Dec 4, 2017 | 2 Comments

Last Saturday morning, the Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority hosted a groundbreaking ceremony celebrating the start of construction on the next phase of the Foothill Gold Line. The new Gold Line “phase 2B” extension will run 12.3 miles east from Azusa, extending from Glendora to Montclair. It will include six new stations, one each in […]

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