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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
August 1, 2025
Metro/Caltrans Freeway Expansion Updates: Projects on 57/60, 605, 71 Freeways
57/60 Freeway construction might be a year late, first segment of 71 Freeway construction finishing, and agencies keep setting the stage for 605 Freeway mega-project.
July 31, 2025
Rosemead Now Offers Zero Emission Microtransit
The service operates within city limits, but offers further rides for older and disabled riders.
July 29, 2025
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.
July 24, 2025
Friday’s Headlines
With all the press about gas prices and the annual inflation tax increase, I'm actually stunned to hear prices are down in this fiscal year.
July 18, 2025
Legislation to Modernize Red Light Cameras in California Has Cleared the Senate and is Moving in the Assembly
Similar changes have shown safety benefits in other states.
July 17, 2025
A Few Lowlights from Secretary Duffy’s First Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Hearing
Featuring: shouting matches, word-salad answers, blatant misinformation, and more.
July 16, 2025
LA County Accidentally Removed Criminal Reform Ballot Measure from County Code. Now They’re Trying to Fix It.
Voters passed Measure J in 2020 to dedicate money to education, job training, and other non-carceral ways to fight crime.
July 16, 2025
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
July 15, 2025
Covina Residents Call on City for Protections from Immigration Raids
Community members took to city council to share their frustrations and demands.
July 8, 2025
