Issues
LADOT Removing Some Peak Hour Car Lanes, Restoring On-Street Parking
The program is reversing decades of LADOT peak hour parking removal for expanding car capacity, but the first phase doesn't quite live up to council's instructions supporting multimodal transportation.
South Bay Pauses Planned Metro/Caltrans 405 Freeway Widening
Metro suggested that that the South Bay Cities Council of Governments be responsible for a 405 Freeway project cost overruns. The SBCCOG board declined.
As Community Mourns 9-Year-Old Nadir Gavarrete, Crosswalk Collective Improves Deadly Koreatown Intersection
Fourth grader Nadir Gavarrete was into dinosaurs and playing soccer.
Metro Friday Newsbits: Toilets, El Monte Bike Hub, and Bike-Share Limbo
Metro Bike Share on month-to-month extensions, El Monte bike hub smashed again, and Metro expanding easy-to-use Throne toilets
Rosemead Now Offers Zero Emission Microtransit
The service operates within city limits, but offers further rides for older and disabled riders.
Metro A Line Extension to Pomona Will Open September 19
Nine new miles of light rail, four new stations - Glendora, San Dimas, La Verne, and Pomona - extending the world's longest light rail line.
Eyes on the Street: Metro Demolition Makes Way for Union Station Run-Through Tracks
Metro is demolishing industrial buildings in order to extend tracks over the 101 Freeway. The Link US project will greatly increase the capacity and efficiency of Union Station.
Rest in Power, Benito Flores
A memorial to a man who died fighting for what he believed in.
City Breaks Ground on Mid-City Greenways Bike/Walk Improvements
The 4+mile Mid-City Greenways project is focused on three streets: Rosewood Avenue, Formosa Avenue, and Orange Drive.
StreetSmart Special Edition – LA Evictions at Caltrans Owned Properties for Formerly Homeless “Reclaimers”
Benito Flores, one of the Reclaimers, is resisting eviction to draw attention to inequities with how housing laws are being applied to people experiencing homelessness
