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Metro/Caltrans Neighborhood Erasure along the Lower 5 Freeway
Metro and Caltrans have erased hundreds of houses, apartments, and businesses - in the cities of Norwalk and Santa Fe Springs - to widen the 5 Freeway
January 8, 2021
Downey Freeway Fighters Hang NO MORE LANES Banner over 5 Freeway
The Happy City Coalition tweeted that "From the view of the pedestrian overpass you can see dozens of homes that will be affected if the freeway expansion goes through."
January 4, 2021
Five Road Widening Myths That Are Delaying Climate Action
These convenient excuses help your transportation department justify widening and adding highways – but they’re dead wrong.
December 29, 2020
Downey Area Freeway Fighters Form The Happy City Coalition
The Happy City Coalition is working to stop expansion of the 605 and 5 Freeways, and to build a more walkable, bikeable, transit-oriented Southeast L.A. County
December 17, 2020
Why Highway Teardowns Make Great Infrastructure (and Equity) Investments
Progressive advocates are making the case that new infrastructure money would actually be best spent tearing urban highways down — and reinvesting in the Black and brown communities that those bad road projects tore apart decades ago.
December 10, 2020
California Transportation Commission: S.B. 1 Projects Approved
Concerns were raised about continuing to invest in car infrastructure, but project list was approved anyway. Also: S.B. 1 brings economic development, jobs; Active Transportation Program gets some love; Equity Advisory Roundtable is almost full.
December 4, 2020
Gateway Cities Council of Governments Staff Critical of Metro Highway Program Flexibility Proposal
Gateway Cities Council of Government staff are calling "to maintain the integrity of freeway... plans." Elected Gateway Cities leadership may have more multimodal ideas.
December 3, 2020
San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments Votes to Support Metro Highway Program Flexibility
The SGVCOG Transportation Committee voted unanimously to support new guidelines that would allow more flexibility for Metro Highway Program projects to including complete streets components.
November 23, 2020
Metro Considering Modernizing Highway Program – Making Funds More Flexible
Proposal would remove limitations allowing municipalities to use highway funds for complete streets projects, including improvements for bus, bike, walk
November 10, 2020
Documents Show Metro “Drastically” Increased Planned 605/5 Freeway Widening
Metro is using inappropriate non-urban highway standards resulting in excessive demolition of homes, apartments, schools, parks
October 30, 2020
