Editorial: Metro Board Needs to Reject More Funding for Transit Police
Don't settle for more punitive policing-as-usual. Don't waste any more time in making good on your promises to reform transit policing.
March 25, 2021
Metro Expects to Finish Purple Line Extension Section One Tunneling This Week
Details emerge on Metro's herculean task of tunneling below Wilshire to extend the Purple Line subway.
March 24, 2021
Metro About to Green-Light Another Highway Mega-Project: North County 5 Freeway Widening
The I-5 North County project would add roughly 32 new lane miles, generating ~275M new vehicle miles travelled (VMT) per year, resulting in ~25,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year.
March 23, 2021
Metro Postpones Approving Transit Policing Cost Overruns – for the Third Time
The proposed $36M increase to Metro's transit policing budget will be heard at this week's board meeting
March 22, 2021
Alliance for Community Transit Publishes New Report on Metro Policing
ACT-LA's report "Metro as a Sanctuary: Reimagining Safety on Public Transit" reviews past Metro transit policing issues and offers solutions to inform Metro's current process to reexamine and reform its transit policing practices.
March 18, 2021
Eyes on the Street: Newly-Protected Bike Lane on Figueroa Street in DTLA
The newly-protected northbound Figueroa protected bike lane extends 0.6-mile from Wilshire to 2nd
March 16, 2021
I-5 Authority Pushes to Exempt Widening Project from Mandated Equity and Environment Evaluation, Asserts Widening Freeway Cleans Air
I-5 JPA "Metro's recommendation for a holistic, equity based examination of the project regarding induced demand and greenhouse gas emissions... is an academic debate" not pertinent to this $5B highway project.
March 12, 2021
Regional Inter-County Jockeying for COVID Transit Stimulus Monies
L.A. County needs get somewhat short shrift in a six-county SCAG region that skews suburban. Unfortunately Metro hasn't helped its case; the agency shirked some of its transit operations during the pandemic.
March 8, 2021
Activists Urge L.A. City to Expand Project Roomkey Via Unlimited Federal Funds
FEMA is offering 100 percent reimbursement, but L.A. City is having difficulty finding up-front funding to use hotels as homes for unhoused neighbors
March 5, 2021
Two Dozen Upcoming L.A. County Walk/Bike Projects Funded
Metro Measure M Active Transportation grants, and CA Transportation Commission Active Transportation Program grants
March 4, 2021
