Recent Streetsblog LA posts about highway expansion

We’re Number 1…In Auto Congestion

By Damien Newton | Jan 20, 2010 | 7 Comments

Photo provided by: da90027/Flickr News website The Daily Beast crunches the numbers from the most congested areas in America and finds, to nobody’s surprise, that the worst driving commute in America is right here in Los Angeles. The Hollywood Freeway ranks as the worst place to commute in the entire country based on rush hour […]

Diagram for Route 2 “Hybrid” Option Unveiled Before Tomorrow’s Metro Vote

By Damien Newton | Dec 9, 2009 | 6 Comments

The "hybrid" option, revealed. For a large version of this file, click here. Ten years ago, when the Route 2 Terminus Project was first conceived, it had some progressive goals. Among them was the goal of slowing down traffic on the Route 2 flyover that dumps traffic on Glendale Boulevard so that pedestrians on Glendale […]

New Report: Road Funding From Non-Road Users Doubled in 25 Years

By Elana Schor | Nov 24, 2009 | 2 Comments

(Image: Subsidyscope) The myth that U.S. roads "pay for themselves" thanks to user fees is a subject that’s likely familiar to many Streetsblog Capitol Hill readers — but just how much of the nation’s highway funding is provided by charging drivers? The answer may surprise even active critics of the current asphalt-centric transportation system. Between […]

Echo Park Community Warns Metro: Hybrid Plan for Route 2 Terminus Untested, Illegal

By Damien Newton | Nov 18, 2009 | 7 Comments

The LADOT’s favored alternative. Of course, they’re willing to "compromise." At 1:00 P.M. down at Metro Headquarters Board Room, the Metro Board Planning and Programming Committee will vote on a staff proposal to accept a "hybrid alternative" to the Route 2 Terminus project. Last week, Streetsblog discussed the broken process that led to the "hybrid" […]

Superfund, Fault Lines, Groundwater All in the Way…Let’s Dig a Tunnel!

By Damien Newton | Nov 18, 2009 | 9 Comments

Map of fault lines and recent earthquakes in Southern California. Map: USGS.gov I wonder if it’s still too soon to criticize the concept of digging a tunnel to connect the 710 Tunnel to the I-210. To the absolute surprise of nobody that’s ever dealt with a freeway agency, a study completed by Caltrans gives the […]

LADOT Values Capacity over Community on Route 2/Glendale Blvd. Drags Metro along for the Ride

By Damien Newton | Nov 11, 2009 | 8 Comments

For over a decade, the Echo Park community has been in negotiations with the big three of local transportation agencies, Metro, LADOT and Caltrans, over redesigning the terminus of Route 2 to improve traffic flow. Over forty years ago a coalition of Echo Park and Silver Lake residents banded together to keep Route 2 from […]

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