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Metro Planning Upgrade to 210 Freeway/Gold Line Barrier in Pasadena
Metro is planning beefed-up barriers to keep 210 Freeway car traffic from crashing into the Gold Line.
July 20, 2018
Metro Considers Expanding Paid Park-and-Ride to Eight More Stations
New paid parking planned for Blue (Wardlow, Willow), Expo (Crenshaw), Gold (Arcadia, Indiana, Azusa, Duarte) and Green Lines (Hawthorne/Lennox)
July 19, 2018
The Problem With the Metro Blue/Expo Light Rail Is… Cars
Blue and Expo trains slow to a crawl in downtown L.A. where they compete with cars. Wny not fix this problem when the Blue Line is improved next year?
July 18, 2018
Metro Bike Share Update: Cheaper Prices, Bye Pasadena, Hello USC
This week, Metro cut its bike-share prices in half. The system is closing in Pasadena, and expanding in the USC area.
July 16, 2018
L.A. City Councilmember O’Farrell Breaks Ground on Beverly Blvd Safety Improvements
Councilmember O'Farrell broke ground on a $1.37M project to make a 2.5-mile stretch of Beverly safer and more walkable
July 13, 2018
What Can We Learn from the Brutal, Wildly Ineffective Effort to Recall Mike Bonin?
Last week, the Argonaut Newspaper officially declared the effort to recall Westside City Councilmember Mike Bonin dead.
July 12, 2018
Is LA Really Considering a Mandatory Bike Licensing Program?
Last month, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a motion to encourage people to record bicycle serial numbers.
July 11, 2018
The Unintentional Comedy of “Stop the Purple Threat” Is Actually Kind of Sad
Anonymous residents of Beverly Hills have organized under the banner of "Friends of Beverly Hills High School" to launch a new web campaign against the Metro Purple Line Extension under the banner of "Stop the Purple Threat."
July 10, 2018
L.A. T-Committee Approves Regulations For Dockless Bike-Share, E-Bikes, E-Scooter Pilot
Initial fleet size will be 3000. Area restrictions have been eliminated, though fleet size incentives push devices to disadvantaged areas.
July 3, 2018
How Can Metro and Cities Make Bus-Only Lanes Effective?
Phil Washington called for more enforcement to get scofflaw drivers out of bus-only lanes, but sometimes enforcement erroneously targets bicyclists. What works?
July 2, 2018
