Why Won’t Metro Promote Its New Electric Buses?
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Announcing a Streetsblog contest: submit your designs for how Metro should promote its exciting new electric bus fleet
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Mayor Garcetti Introduces New Metro TAP App – Riders Can Now Use Phone To Pay Fare
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Riders can now use iPhones to pay fare on Metro bus and rail, Metro Bike Share, and L.A. County municipal operator buses
SGV Connect 69: Stormwater Planning in East L.A. and a Look at the Transit Picture Across the Country
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Kris interviews Paul Alva about East L.A. Sustainable Median Stormwater Capture Project. Damien talks to Streetsblog USA editor Kea Wilson about the state of transit during the ongoing pandemic.
Metro Kicks Off G Line Bus Electrification
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Six months late, Metro now has its first electric bus operating on the popular Metro G Line BRT in the San Fernando Valley
Bystander Shot Six Times During Officer-Involved Shooting Left Homeless, Struggling to Recover while LAPD Treats Him as Suspect
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“Wow, I wake up from my death and it was like I was in jail...I’m treated like a criminal," he says. "[Yet] I'm the victim in this situation."
How Beating of Unhoused Boyle Heights Man Exposes Woeful Inadequacy of LAPD Reform Proposals
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Making the case for why, if L.A. is serious about reimagining public safety, it must embrace the conversation around defunding the police
L.A. Cyclists Ride for Justice for George Floyd
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More than a thousand cyclists, mainly Black and Latinx, commemorated the death of George Floyd via a peaceful South L.A. RIde for Justice
Metro Sides with Police, Against Riders – Shuts Down System, Shuttles Arrestees
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By suspending service and shuttling arrestees, Metro leadership sided with the police, against the needs of its largely Black and brown ridership
As Public Health Prepares for Vending Crackdown, Street Vendors Call for the Cancellation of Rents
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Street vendors decry having been left to fend for themselves during a disaster, seek cash assistance, the cancellation of rents, and an end to criminalization
Evicted During COVID-19: “I Have Been Homeless for 20 Days…What’s Going to Happen to Me?”
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A true eviction moratorium might have kept Miguel housed and stable; now he fears for his mental health and his ability to get back on his feet
Operation Gridlock Protest Brings Around 60 Drivers to Downtown L.A.
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Attendance peaked at about 60 cars, carrying about 90 people. Drivers were outnumbered by a large contingent of LAPD officers, and by press camerapersons and photographers.