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What Projects Should Be Accelerated for the 2028 Olympics? How Can These Advance Equity?
For 2028 Olympics project acceleration to foster equity, don't speed up highway projects. Instead focus on improving the bus system.
February 8, 2019
Community Service Comes Full Circle for Members of Black Kids on Bikes at King Day Parade
Youth BKoB inspired to join in the parade years ago now serve as inspiration for the next generation
January 23, 2019
Black Panther Movement Figures on Crenshaw’s Great Wall Defaced with Swastikas
Earlier today, Jasmyne Cannick alerted the South Central community to the swastikas defacing the "Our Mighty Contribution" mural gracing Crenshaw's 7800-foot-long Great Wall.
November 29, 2018
Art, the Crenshaw/LAX Line, and the Stories We (Don’t) Tell at Train Stations
Given the role public investment can have in reshaping marginalized communities, what responsibilities does Metro have as an entity that seeks to tell stories about the places it moves people through?
November 1, 2018
As Vermont/Manchester Transportation School Moves Forward, Community Reckons with Past, Wrestles with Form Change Should Take
For black stakeholders eager to shed the despised "Death Alley" label and address the damage rooted in segregationist policies, the stakes feel especially high
October 16, 2018
New from StreetFilms: Los Angeles: The Great American Transit Experiment
StreetFilms and TransitCenter explore L.A. transit successes and issues, and question what is needed to make transit better serve the county's future
October 9, 2018
As Garcetti Speaks at NACTO, L.A. Mobility Advocates Protest Lack of Progress
Mayor Garcetti touted L.A.'s "transportation renaissance" while demonstrators criticized the Mayor's lack of progress on Vision Zero
October 2, 2018
Metro PSAs Target Vendors, Make Other Missteps in Effort to Teach Transit Etiquette
“Wait, did they just deport the vendor?”
September 26, 2018
In Questionable Move, Affordable Housing Developer Awards Leasing Applications to First 400 Callers
Leasing applications are generally treated with more care than concert tickets that go to the first ten callers that happen to be listening in. Not this time.
September 21, 2018
Metro Receives Key Federal Approval for Westside Purple Line Extension Section 3
The federal government finally OK-ed L.A. Metro to proceed with construction of the $1.3B Westside Purple Line extension section 3.
September 20, 2018
