Recent Streetsblog LA posts about L (Gold) Line

Editorial: Why Raise Fares When Metro’s Building Even More Free Parking?

By Joe Linton | Apr 15, 2014 | 21 Comments

A couple of weeks ago, I posted an editorial asking Why Raise Metro Fares While Giving Away Metro Parking? At the time, I totaled parking for Metro’s BRT and rail lines at 19,450 parking spaces. Despite Metro’s plan to increase transit fares, the agency has no plan to increase parking charges. Metro gives more than 9 out […]

Updated Report Shows CAHSR’s GHG Reductions Less Costly Than Thought

By Melanie Curry | Apr 9, 2014 | 15 Comments

UCLA’s Lewis Center revised some of the estimates in its recent report comparing the costs of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions using California high-speed rail to those of bike, pedestrian, and local transit projects. The report’s authors found that high-speed rail is not as expensive as an emission reduction as they first thought. The update makes several adjustments to […]

Report: In Cutting Emissions, CAHSR Expensive Compared to Local Upgrades

By Melanie Curry | Mar 25, 2014 | 53 Comments

Streetfilms featured Los Angeles’ Orange Line BRT and bike path in 2009. A new UCLA report says infrastructure projects like the Orange Line are a better way to invest cap-and-trade funds than CA High-Speed Rail. UCLA’s Lewis Center published a report yesterday finding that California’s High-Speed Rail project is a relatively expensive way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) […]

Second Time is Not a Charm: Community Still Vociferously Opposed to Plans for Lorena Plaza in Boyle Heights

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 21, 2014 | 14 Comments

What had ever happened to the plans to turn the space on the corner of Lorena and 1st St. into a fitness parklet? Many of those gathered this past Wednesday evening at the second informational meeting regarding the plans for the site were still feeling burned by the promise they believed Metro had reneged on […]

Eastside Access Project Takes Another Step Forward, Experiences Growing Pains

By Sahra Sulaiman | Sep 27, 2013 | 11 Comments

As I walked along 1st St. last week, I came across a gentleman standing outside a storefront, staring at the square of dirt where a huge ficus tree had once stood. The sudden launch of tree-cutting operations along the corridor a few weekends ago took many by surprise (and some dismay). While the ficus trees […]

“Starting from the Beginning” for Some Metro Owned Sites in Boyle Heights

By Kristopher Fortin | Dec 6, 2012 | 4 Comments

Last month, when Jsm/Polis Builders (JSM) lost the contract to develop a CVS Pharmacy and shopping center on the corner of Soto Street and Cesar Chavez Avenue, the fate of that site and other Metro-owned properties seemed vague. Today, Metro representatives will host a meeting to update the public on the status of four Metro-owned […]

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