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“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
Metro Expects to Finish Purple Line Extension Section One Tunneling This Week
Details emerge on Metro's herculean task of tunneling below Wilshire to extend the Purple Line subway.
March 24, 2021
Metro About to Green-Light Another Highway Mega-Project: North County 5 Freeway Widening
The I-5 North County project would add roughly 32 new lane miles, generating ~275M new vehicle miles travelled (VMT) per year, resulting in ~25,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year.
March 23, 2021
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
