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Metro hosted the first meeting of its Public Safety Advisory Committee yesterday - screengrab via Zoom

Metro Hosts First Public Safety Advisory Committee Meeting

By Joe Linton | Apr 8, 2021 | No Comments

Last night's introductory PSAC meeting included remarks by Phil Washington, Judy Gerhardt, KeAndra Cylear Dodds, and Aaron Weinstein - and introduced PSAC members, and facilitators David France and Tamika Butler

Stephanie Wiggins To Become CEO of Metro

By Joe Linton | Apr 7, 2021 | No Comments

Stephanie Wiggins is expected to be CEO for a four-year term, with a start date between May 30, 2021 and June 14, 2021, plus two, one-year options

There's a lot riding on Metro's Public Safety Advisory Committee. Image via Metro

Metro Postpones Approving Transit Policing Cost Overruns – for the Third Time

By Joe Linton | Mar 19, 2021 | No Comments

The proposed $36M increase to Metro's transit policing budget will be heard at next week's board meeting

Visualization of Downey homes threatened by Metro and Caltrans 5 Freeway widening - via segregation_by_design Instagram

I-5 Authority Pushes to Exempt Widening Project from Mandated Equity and Environment Evaluation, Asserts Widening Freeway Cleans Air

By Joe Linton | Mar 11, 2021 | No Comments

I-5 JPA "Metro's recommendation for a holistic, equity based examination of the project regarding induced demand and greenhouse gas emissions... is an academic debate" not pertinent to this $5B highway project.

Whittier City Councilmember and now Metro boardmember Fernando Dutra - via City of Whittier YouTube

Whittier Councilmember Fernando Dutra Appointed to Metro Board

By Joe Linton | Mar 8, 2021 | No Comments

After one false start, today Dutra's Metro board appointment was approved by the county's City Selection Committee; his term is through January 1, 2025

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

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