Recent Streetsblog LA posts about highway expansion

It's 2022 and Metro and Caltrans are still widening freeways - graphic via Metro fact sheet

Freeway News Round-Up: 710 Widening and Aesthetics, 71 and 5 Widening Snags, and Bakersfield’s Centennial Corridor

By Joe Linton | Jan 11, 2022 | No Comments

Metro's 710 widening task force met, the 710 aesthetic plan is ridiculous, 71 and 5 Freeway widening hitting snags, and mass home demolition for a Bakersfield freeway

Metro Regional Connector construction wraps up in 2022. Photo via Metro status report

Looking Ahead: Some L.A. Transportation Predictions for 2022

By Joe Linton | Dec 30, 2021 | No Comments

SBLA editor Joe Linton predicts Metro ridership, freeway widening, a new DTLA subway, new bus lanes, and more

Figueroa Street red bus lane markings next to green bike lane markings give. Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog

Looking Back at Some Stories that Shaped 2021

By Joe Linton and Sahra Sulaiman | Dec 29, 2021 | No Comments

COVID, new Metro leadership, resistance to freeway widening, new bus lanes, unsuccessful recall campaigns, and police accountability

710 Freeway. Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

Much of Metro’s Latest 710 Freeway Messaging Sounds All Too Familiar

By Joe Linton | Dec 9, 2021 | No Comments

Stay tuned - probably for another decade - to find out if Metro's latest community messaging is sincere, or just another iteration of the past couple decades of lip service to a community-driven process.

County Supervisor Kathryn Barger at this morning's I-5 North County widening groundbreaking, where she claimed that this project will "reduce pollution." Image via Facebook stream

Metro Leaders Make False Claims at North County 5 Freeway Widening Groundbreaking

By Joe Linton | Dec 1, 2021 | No Comments

Does anyone really believe that this freeway expansion will really clean the air? Advance equity? Is suburban highway widening any kind of equity model for other projects in the region and the state?

Metro Highway Program image via Metro presentation

Metro CEO Wiggins Moves Highway Program Under Planning – To Encourage Multimodal Projects

By Joe Linton | Nov 16, 2021 | No Comments

In order to encourage multi-modal projects, Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins recently moved highway projects under the agency's department of Countywide Planning & Development.

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