Looking to Reset Process, Metro to Approve ‘No Build’ Alternative for Lower 710 Freeway Widening
It is pretty unusual for an agency like Metro to spend more than $160 million on freeway widening plans and early projects, then select the "no build" alternative
April 13, 2022
Metro Pushing to Get Freeway Interchange Expansion Underway ASAP
Metro and Caltrans are spending a half-billion dollars to widen the congested 57/60 Freeways interchange
April 11, 2022
Eyes on the Street: Koreatown Anti-Camping Rocks Are Gone
The Westmoreland Avenue rocks are gone, but appear to have inspired other more recent unhoused-hostile copycat installations nearby
April 11, 2022
Metro Announces It Will No Longer Widen Freeways, Doubles Down on Freeway “Modernization”
This morning, April 1 (wink), Metro leaders announced that the agency will no longer be spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year to widen highways throughout L.A. County
April 1, 2022
Councilmember Kevin de León Announces Support for Eagle Rock Bus Transit Plan
Kevin de León endorsed Metro's "single lane" Bus Rapid Transit alternative "F1" which is largely based on the community-led design proposal called the Beautiful Boulevard
April 1, 2022
Metro Looking Into Two Bikeway Connections to Union Station
Cyclists could travel first/last mile to/from Union Station via the planned L.A. River path and via an extended esplanade along Alameda Street
March 24, 2022
Eyes on the Street: Huntington Park’s Veterans Park Corridor Walk/Bike Trails
Half-mile long Veterans Park is located below high-voltage powerlines and presents a very good example of how to convert underutilized utility corridors into multi-purpose community spaces
March 23, 2022
Eyes on the Street: New Taylor Yard Walk/Bike Bridge
Photos of the new Taylor Yard bike/walk bridge - connecting the L.A. City neighborhoods of Elysian Valley and Cypress Park
March 22, 2022
Most of Metro’s New Crenshaw/LAX Light Rail Line Is Substantially Complete
If all goes well - which hasn't been the case for Crenshaw/LAX so far - the new rail line could open to the public as early as this December, though early 2023 is likely
March 21, 2022
Proposed L.A. Metro FY22-23 Budget: More Freeway Widening, Less Transit Construction
While the Metro FY22-23 budget figures are still in flux, the latest proposal shows a 30 percent increase in freeway expansion and a 9 percent decrease in transit expansion
March 18, 2022
