Joe Linton
Recent Posts
Four Things L.A. Can Do to Make Hollywood Bike-Share More of a Success
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Hollywood has 12 new docking stations housing 162 new bikes - bringing Metro Bike Share's total to 3,470 total bikes at 236 docking stations
Pasadena Canceling Grade Separation Gives Metro Another Chance to Do Right with 710 Funding
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With Pasadena seeking to moving funding around, what projects Metro chooses to fund will be an early test of whether or not culture change is taking root
Is Metro Committed To An Effective Clean Truck Program?
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Metro established a task force to address 710 Freeway corridor investments, advocates question why the rush for a Clean Truck Program outside that established process?
This Week In Livable Streets
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CD5 debate, Metro board meeting, 5 Freeway widening, Foothill Gold Line, Sepulveda Transit, walking in Azusa, and more
California Needs to Up its Train Game
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San Joaquin, Capitol Corridor, Pacific Surfliner--new umbrella group wants to promote California's model of operating trains. But the state should take things further
Metro Starts Construction on Little Tokyo/Arts District Eastside Access Improvements
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The $29.7 million Eastside Access Improvements project provides first/last mile connections to the new Metro Regional Connector subway, expected to open to the public in mid-2022
Metro and Caltrans 605 Freeway Valley Boulevard Project is All Too Typical of Harmful Incremental Highway Widening
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The 605 Freeway/Valley Blvd project isn't among the most destructive widening projects that Metro and Caltrans do, but it's bad.
This Week In Livable Streets
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L.A. City redistricting, Better Buses, Metro board committees, T-Committee, and more
Metro Plans to Close Loophole that Charges Five-Year-Olds Full Fare
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The proposed revised fare language would simply read: “Children under age 6 may travel free with a fare-paying adult on bus or rail.”
New Bike Lanes Installed on Channel Road in Pacific Palisades
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New Channel Road bike lanes extend about about 0.2-mile from Mesa Road to Short Street. The facility connects to the beach bike path via one block of new sharrows and an existing pedestrian undercrossing.
Metro and Other So Cal Freeway Builders Express Frustration About Addressing Equity
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Metro leadership complain that "inclusion of equity and race impact assessment[s]" and "expanded public participation in project development" are hampering the agency's plans to widen freeways.
Metro Celebrates G Line Conversion to All Electric Buses
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The G (Orange) Line Bus Rapid Transit has been running all-electric since June/July 2021