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To Oakland’s Incoming District 2 Councilperson Charlene Wang: Help Stop this Freeway Widening
Oakland and the rest of the Bay Area can't move towards safer streets until they stop moving backwards
April 24, 2025
Freeway Updates: 91 Widening, Repave 405, and 105 Safety Fixes
A Metro/Caltrans 91 Freeway expansion project is on hold. Caltrans 105/Studebaker safety enhancements are complete. Caltrans is planning $144M worth of repaving and upgrading for the 405 through the Sepulveda Pass.
April 22, 2025
City of San Mateo Says ‘No More Freeway Widening’
Finally, a city council that gets the utter futility of widening to solve traffic.
April 8, 2025
Metro/Caltrans L.A. County Freeway Widening Accounted for Over 96 Percent of Recent Home Demolitions Statewide
Southern California has borne the brunt of harmful freeway widening, with L.A. County projects - where Caltrans partnered with Metro - resulting in mass demolition of homes and businesses
March 7, 2025
New Report Quantifies Five Years of Caltrans Freeway Expansion, including Demolitions
Between 2018 and 2023, Caltrans tore down 623 homes and businesses, to make way for 553 new miles of highway lanes
March 5, 2025
LA Metro Updates: 25 Months of Ridership Growth, and More
Metro ridership is growing steadily, plus Metro 605/5/10/60/105 Freeway expansion, Metro Micro, bus electrification, C Line, and Metro wildfire response
The post Metro Updates: 25 Months of Ridership Growth, and More appeared first on Streetsblog Los Angeles.
January 17, 2025
Where Metro and Caltrans Are Widening L.A. Freeways, Sabotaging the Climate, Fanning the Flames
Climate disruption is here. Right now. It's past time that Southern California transportation heavyweights - Metro and Caltrans - stop making the situation worse
January 16, 2025
Video: Why We Need a Global Freeway Fighters’ Network
A terrible project in Berlin shows the need for a global network to support local freeway fighters everywhere.
January 14, 2025
How Caltrans Measures Induced Travel: Comments Open Through Friday
Two key documents that address the ways Caltrans measures and accounts for new travel induced by their projects are being finalized this week.
November 20, 2024
Eyes on the Street: 57/60 Freeway Confluence Construction in Progress
New off-ramps have begun to sprout out of the dirt, and widening surface streets are going through the growing pains of construction closures
November 7, 2024
