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Metro Successfully Tunneled Through Challenging Conditions to Wilshire
Purple Line Extension Section 1 saw heroic efforts to probe conditions, avoid obstacles, and clear heavy steel beams in the way. Sections 2 and 3 follow.
March 29, 2021
SORRIEST BUS STOPS 2021: Homeland, Calif. vs. Staten Island, N.Y.
Today, we're exploring how illumination impacts the American transit experience, and challenging agencies to stop leaving the public in the dark about how to request a better bus stop.
March 29, 2021
Metro Board Approves $36M for Transit Policing Overruns, Plus Safety Alternatives Next Year
Metro transit police overshot their contract by 17 percent, then basically threatened to walk off the job this summer if Metro didn't paper over their runaway finances.
March 26, 2021
“Clean Air” Assemblymember Friedman Still Pushing Diesel Instead of Bullet Trains in Central Valley
They have no clean air in the Central Valley? Let them breath diesel exhaust, say L.A. politicians
March 25, 2021
Editorial: Metro Board Needs to Reject More Funding for Transit Police
Don't settle for more punitive policing-as-usual. Don't waste any more time in making good on your promises to reform transit policing.
March 25, 2021
SORRIEST BUS STOPS 2021: Pittsburgh vs. Littleton
This is the fourth first-round matchup in the Sweet 16 round of our annual Sorriest Bus Stop contest (voting continues through Tuesday at 4 p.m. Eastern).
March 22, 2021
VTA Leaders Express Doubts about Legislation That Would Change Board Makeup
Critics are emerging of AB 1091, Asm. Marc Berman's bill that would remake the VTA Board
March 12, 2021
High-Speed Rail: It’s Time to Commit
While it was billed as an opportunity to "pause and consider the purpose of the project in the context of meeting the state's mobility needs," the hearing was more a disjointed airing of complaints.
March 11, 2021
Editorial: Key Bullet Train Meeting Requires an Honest Conversation
Yes, that means you, Assemblymember Laura Friedman
March 9, 2021
New COVID Relief Bill Is a Strong Start to a Long Transit Recovery
Congress is poised to give the transit industry its most significant lifeline yet in the pandemic, but it may still leave some cities struggling to make it for the long haul, advocates argue.
March 9, 2021
