Joe Linton
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Metro Committee Approves $200M Cost Overrun for Purple Line Subway Extension
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Tunneling under the La Brea tar pits area is slow and expensive. The overrun of $200M - a seven percent increase - takes the project budget from $2.8 billion to $3.0 billion.
Metro Looks to Shift High Desert Freeway Funds to High-Speed Rail
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The way L.A. is approaching the High Desert Corridor represents an important turning point: from prioritizing environmentally destructive car-centric transportation to environmentally-friendly rail transportation
New Everyone In Video Shows Homelessness’ Disproportionate Harm To Black Angelenos
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Everyone In tells stories of Black unhoused persons, and offers solutions, including funding from the November Reimagine L.A. ballot measure
This Week In Livable Streets
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Pasadena BLM ride, NextGen hearings, T-Committee, Metro Committees, and COVID briefings
L.A. City Is Nixing Metro’s Pedestrian-Priority Plans for Union Station
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If L.A. won't prioritize walkability at the front door of the region's most heavily-used transit hub and at its historic walkable core, is there anywhere where Angelenos can expect safe and convenient places to walk?
Eyes on the Street: Downtown Culver City Expanded Outdoor Dining, New Bus Lane
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Culver City converted former car space to outdoor dining and bus/bike lanes - to allow people to safely distance during COVID-19
This Week In Livable Streets
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Reimagine Public Safety, Uplift Melrose, and COVID briefings
Garcetti Opens New Bus-Only Lanes On 5th and 6th Streets Downtown
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New bus-only lanes opened today on 5th and 6th Streets. More coming soon on Aliso Street, Grand Avenue and Olive Street - and according to Garcetti "in your neighborhood."
Latest Draft Downtown L.A. Community Plan Released for Input
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DTLA 2040 incentivizes affordable housing, eliminates parking requirements, favors walk/bike/transit, and strengthens adaptive re-use
May Protest Update: Metro Refused Some Mutual Aid Requests, Most Bus Damage Was Minimal
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Metro shuttled LAPD officers, provided 23 buses to police, and reported "62 damaged buses" when only about a dozen sustained significant damage.
County Approves Reimagine L.A., Funding Shift Measure Will Be on November Ballot
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L.A. County voters will weigh in on Reimagine L.A. this November. The measure would shift ten percent of county funding from policing to community programs and services
This Week In Livable Streets
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Board of Supervisors meeting, South Pasadena bikes, Prop 16, and COVID briefings