Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Mike Bonin

Three Recalls Rejected on the Westside

By Damien Newton | Jan 19, 2022 | No Comments

It's common to have a high rate of rejected signatures when the person collecting them is paid per signature gathered, regardless of whether the signatures are ultimately found to be valid

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

2014 Metro photo of County Sheriff deputies policing - via Metro's The Source

Metro Approves Transit Policing Contract Extension, While Setting Up Some Shift to Alternatives

By Joe Linton | Dec 3, 2021 | No Comments

The one year contract extension combines with other Metro approvals to queue up a planned partial shift of resources away from armed law enforcement to a community safety approach

LAPD patrolling Metro - capture from 2017 Metro video

Sheriff Villanueva Is Opposing Metro’s Slow Moves Toward Transit Policing Reform

By Joe Linton | Nov 23, 2021 | No Comments

Metro transit policing will be on next week's board meeting, though the reform process will continue to be before the board in the coming year as Metro's five-year multi-agency policing contract comes up for renewal

Recall Bonin? Critics Submit Signatures That Could Force Recall Weeks Before Regular Election

By Damien Newton | Nov 15, 2021 | No Comments

The City Clerk estimates the recall election, if the signatures are verified, would occur in May. The date of the city's primary election, which includes Mike Bonin's re-election campaign, is June 7, 2022.

How Metro's meeting sketch artist portrayed 710 Freeway widening - all green and blue (and only two lanes depicted out of 16 proposed)

Wednesday Round-Up: 710 Widening Task Force, 110 Flyover Scoping, Speed Limits, and More

By Joe Linton | Nov 10, 2021 | No Comments

Metro 710 Freeway widening task force, Metro/Caltrans 110 Freeway flyover, Speed Limits, Slow Streets, and new bikeway on Airport Boulevard

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