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
Interview: California Freeway Expansion Projects Induce Travel, and Underestimate Impacts of Additional Driving
UC Davis scholars Susan Handy, Jamey Volker, and Amy Lee created a online Induced Travel Calculator tool to project how road expansion projects would increase driving
February 17, 2021
Interview with Whittier City Councilmember Fernando Dutra
Dutra is vying to be the Gateway Cities (officially the Southeast Long Beach Sector) representative on the Metro Board of Directors. Read his take on Whittier, bicycling, Metro, light rail, freeway expansion, and more.
February 16, 2021
Some Actionable Transportation Ideas for City Councilmember Kevin de León
Here are some ways de León can "prioritize bikes, pedestrians, electric buses" - from dedicated bus lanes to protected bikeways to freeway removal
February 11, 2021
Caltrans: “No Active Plans” to Widen 5 Freeway North of the 605. Really?
The OC Register reports that a Caltrans spokesperson said no more widening. The Caltrans spokesperson now says they told the Register about planned widening.
February 5, 2021
CEO Phil Washington Leaving Metro in May
There is speculation that the Metro CEO might be leaving for a federal position, but no federal post has been announced
February 4, 2021
Koreatown Neighborhood Council Proposes Pedestrianizing Sixth Street
The seven block half-mile-long project would bring needed open space to the most park-poor neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles
February 2, 2021
