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Metro Postpones Approving Transit Policing Cost Overruns – for the Third Time
The proposed $36M increase to Metro's transit policing budget will be heard at this week's board meeting
March 22, 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
Aim Very Low: LADOT Releases New Strategic Plan Update
By setting their sights so low in the new Strategic Plan, Mayor Eric Garcetti and LADOT GM Seleta Reynolds have jointly raised a white flag of surrender to the forces of motordom.
March 2, 2021
Updates from the February 2021 Metro Board Meeting
Transit policing budget, restoring transit service, fareless transit initiative, Sepulveda Transit Corridor, 5 Freeway cost overruns, and Boyle Heights joint development
February 26, 2021
Petition to Keep High Speed Rail on Track
Advocates want state to move forward with funding California's rail modernization project
February 25, 2021
Priorities All Wrong: Metro Proposes Delaying Service Restoration While Increasing Money for Policing
Many on the Metro board and in the public are scratching their heads on Metro doubling down on discriminatory practices at a moment when they had pledged to address the agency's historic role in perpetuating that kind of harm.
February 23, 2021
Amtrak Is Ready to Grow. Will it Finally Get the Subsidy It Deserves?
Amtrak wants intercity rail take its rightful place as an essential component of our public transportation ecosystem, rather than quasi-private afterthought.
February 22, 2021
National Bill Would Bring Billions for Bullet Train
The financial pathway for completing the entire Los Angeles/San Francisco route clarified with legislation from Fresno's Jim Costa
February 18, 2021
Feds Love Cali Bullet Train
Plus L.A. Times pens an especially absurd story claiming project will have only one track
February 11, 2021
