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L.A. Times Opinion Piece Amplifies Call to Nix Metro’s Harmful Freeway Widening
"...why on earth is Metro prioritizing a problematic freeway expansion? ...at some point we need our transit agencies to draw a line in the sand. If they can’t end car-centric urban planning, they can certainly stop enabling it with freeway expansions."
April 6, 2021
Oregon Advocates Sue to Stop Racist Portland Highway Expansion
Advocates in Portland, Ore. have sued to stop the expansion of an urban renewal era highway project — and possibly writing the next page in the playbook for fighting bad urban freeway redesigns across the U.S.
April 6, 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
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
Buttigieg Says US DOT Should Support ‘Right-Sizing’ City Asphalt
The 19th Secretary of Transportation may be the first in recent memory to publicly recognize that the need to remove excess asphalt from cities to meet our climate, safety and mobility justice goals.
March 4, 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
More Urban Freeway Removals Possible
Bay Area advocates and officials encouraged by proposed $10 billion grant from D.C. to repair some of the damage of the freeway-building age
January 28, 2021
Biden Decries US DOT’s Destruction of Black Communities — But Will His Administration Make Reparations?
President Biden won points among some antiracist transportation advocates for calling out federal highway projects for destroying Black communities — and then lost points by failing to call for the USDOT itself to make reparations to the people it has harmed.
January 28, 2021
Metro Shares Some Information About Revised 605/5 Freeway Widening Alternative
New Metro alternative plans would demolish around 156-182 homes in the city of Downey
January 27, 2021
Metro Proposes $73.2M Loan to Caltrans for Overruns on 5 Freeway Widening through Burbank
Next week, the Metro board Construction Committee will consider throwing good money after bad – on a mismanaged freeway widening project through Burbank.
January 19, 2021
