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Leaders Break Ground on Metro Purple Line Subway to Century City
This morning, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Inglewood Mayor James Butts, Beverly Hills Mayor Lili Bosse and other L.A. leaders celebrated the official groundbreaking for section two of the Westside Metro Purple Line subway extension. The $2.53 billion 2.6-mile heavy rail subway extension will include stops at Beverly Hills Rodeo Drive and on Constellation Boulevard in Century City.
February 23, 2018
LADOT Is Giving More Pedestrians a Head Start
In 2017, LADOT has installed more than 60 Leading Pedestrian Intervals on Vision Zero priority intersections, with many more planned in 2018
February 20, 2018
Boyle Heights Tenants, Mariachis Celebrate Victory over Exorbitant Rent Hikes
A nine-month rent strike comes to a close when tenants successfully negotiate new terms with owner B.J. Turner
February 16, 2018
Eyes on the Street: New Metro Blue/Expo Line Train Gate
At the Flower Street 10 Freeway on-ramp, Metro has a new gate arm designed to keep cars from turning in front of trains
February 16, 2018
Webinar on Policing and Mobility Underscores Struggle of Urban Planning to Center Justice
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.
February 9, 2018
Community Celebrates Opening of Milton Green Street Project
The newly-completed Milton Green Street connects communities and cleans water.
February 2, 2018
New UCLA Study Examines Transit Ridership Decline, Blames Increased Car Ownership
Southern California transit ridership has declined since 2007. A UCLA study factors causing it, attributing car ownership increases as a major factor.
February 1, 2018
Teen Hauled Off Metro Train, Cuffed for Putting Her Feet Up
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.
January 23, 2018
Metro Retires Regional Connector Tunnel Machine
"Angeli" has completed work on two mile-long subway tunnels below downtown L.A.
January 19, 2018
