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City Councilmember Blumenfield Opens New L.A. River Headwaters Bike/Walk Path
The new 1.3 mile long segment - from Owensmouth Avenue to Mason Avenue - expands the existing West Valley river path to just over three miles
April 22, 2022
Whittier Is Extending Its Popular Greenway Trail
2.8 additional miles due to open summer 2022
April 21, 2022
Pomona Opens Curb-Protected Two-Way Bikeway on Valley Boulevard
The new curb-protected two-way bike facility is the first protected bikeway in Pomona, and the longest curb-protected bikeway in L.A. County.
April 20, 2022
Preview of L.A. Metro’s Nearly Completed Regional Connector Subway
New downtown L.A. subway due to open in late 2022
April 19, 2022
County Sheriff Villanueva Threatens to Pull LASD Out of Metro’s Multi-Agency Policing Contract
In which the sheriff neglected to explain why Metro had moved to a multi-agency contract in the first place
April 15, 2022
Looking to Reset Process, Metro to Approve ‘No Build’ Alternative for Lower 710 Freeway Widening
It is pretty unusual for an agency like Metro to spend more than $160 million on freeway widening plans and early projects, then select the "no build" alternative
April 13, 2022
Metro Pushing to Get Freeway Interchange Expansion Underway ASAP
Metro and Caltrans are spending a half-billion dollars to widen the congested 57/60 Freeways interchange
April 11, 2022
Eyes on the Street: Koreatown Anti-Camping Rocks Are Gone
The Westmoreland Avenue rocks are gone, but appear to have inspired other more recent unhoused-hostile copycat installations nearby
April 11, 2022
Caltrans Tenants Left Out as “710 Home” Sales Move Forward
"I have been living here my whole life," says Elizabeth Ortega, a Caltrans tenant for 22 years. "I think it would be just to allow us and other tenants to purchase our homes."
April 5, 2022
Metro Announces It Will No Longer Widen Freeways, Doubles Down on Freeway “Modernization”
This morning, April 1 (wink), Metro leaders announced that the agency will no longer be spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year to widen highways throughout L.A. County
April 1, 2022
