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
Aim Very Low: LADOT Releases New Strategic Plan Update
By setting their sights so low in the new Strategic Plan, Mayor Eric Garcetti and LADOT GM Seleta Reynolds have jointly raised a white flag of surrender to the forces of motordom.
March 2, 2021
Updates from the February 2021 Metro Board Meeting
Transit policing budget, restoring transit service, fareless transit initiative, Sepulveda Transit Corridor, 5 Freeway cost overruns, and Boyle Heights joint development
February 26, 2021
Priorities All Wrong: Metro Proposes Delaying Service Restoration While Increasing Money for Policing
Many on the Metro board and in the public are scratching their heads on Metro doubling down on discriminatory practices at a moment when they had pledged to address the agency's historic role in perpetuating that kind of harm.
February 23, 2021
Community-Led ‘Beautiful Boulevard’ Plan Puts Bus Rapid Transit into a Walkable Downtown Eagle Rock
The Beautiful Boulevard proposal would retain mean great BRT, while keeping Colorado Boulevard's median, and upgrading walkability and bikeability.
February 22, 2021
