Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Mike Bonin

KItown for All presenting a large check mocking the city's inability to take broad advantage of federal funding for Project Roomkey. Photos by Joe Linton

Activists Urge L.A. City Expand Project Roomkey Via Unlimited Federal Funds

By Joe Linton | Mar 4, 2021 | No Comments

The FEMA is offering 100 percent reimbursement, but L.A. City is having difficulty finding up-front funding to use hotels as homes for unhoused neighbors

LAPD patrolling Metro - capture from 2017 Metro video

Priorities All Wrong: Metro Proposes Delaying Service Restoration While Increasing Money for Policing

By Joe Linton | Feb 22, 2021 | No Comments

Many on the Metro board and in the public are scratching their heads on Metro doubling down on discriminatory practices at a moment when they had pledged to address the agency's historic role in perpetuating that kind of harm.

Garcetti Funds Extension of Roomkey for 1,200 Rooms, but Council Wants City to Think Bigger

By Damien Newton | Feb 11, 2021 | No Comments

Bonin: "They say where there's a will there's a way; In this case, there has to be a way." Raman: "We need to be ambitious; I've heard the word 'hundreds' but we need be hearing 'thousands' [of new rooms to be added to Roomkey]."

Transit advocates rallied and the Metro board restored some transit service

Metro Board Restores $24.3 Million in Cut Transit Service

By Joe Linton | Jan 28, 2021 | No Comments

Funding will restore transit service with priority for high-ridership lines and an emphasis on disadvantaged communities - though service will remain below level it was at one year ago.

San Bernardino Omnitrans sbX center-running left-side boarding bus rapid transit - photo by House1090 via Wikipedia

Metro To Consider Left-Side Bus Boarding For Bus Rapid Transit Lines

By Joe Linton | Dec 4, 2020 | No Comments

Left-side boarding would give Metro greater flexibility in planning for new high-profile Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines, including Vermont Avenue, North San Fernando Valley, and North Hollywood to Pasadena.

Metro testing trains on the under-construction Crenshaw/LAX light rail line

Metro Cuts Service, and More Updates from the September Board Meeting

By Joe Linton | Sep 24, 2020 | No Comments

Bus service cuts approved, Crenshaw rail delayed, Union Station busway station opening delayed, Metro COVID CARES Act stimulus spent, and meeting input improved

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