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Metro Moving Forward With $4 Million For 17 Open Streets

By Joe Linton | | 5 Comments
Today, Metro’s Planning and Programming Committee approved $4.04 million for 17 L.A. County open streets events to take place through December 2018. The full Metro board of directors is expected to approve the open streets program funding at its meeting next Thursday. This is the second round of Metro open street event funding, with the agency […]

CicLAvia No.18 Iconic Wilshire Boulevard – Open Thread

By Joe Linton | | 3 Comments
The eighteenth iteration of CicLAvia touched down on a three-mile stretch of Wilshire Boulevard yesterday. The Wilshire route extended from Grand Avenue in downtown L.A. to Western Avenue in Koreatown. Organizers had hoped for a longer route, but Metro Purple Line construction has closed a couple of Miracle Mile Wilshire intersections for multiple weekends, so […]

CicLAvia XVII Open Thread – Southeast Cities

By Joe Linton | | 3 Comments
Yesterday, CicLAvia touched down in Southeast Los Angeles County for the first time. The 10-mile car-free open streets route included the cities of Huntington Park, Lynwood, and South Gate, and the L.A. City community of Watts and the unincorporated L.A. County communities of Florence-Firestone and Walnut Park. The popular open streets event filled southeast boulevards with people […]

This Week’s Metro Committees: All-Door Boarding, Bike-Share, Parking, More

By Joe Linton | | 7 Comments
This week’s big Metro announcement, expected Friday, will be the fall ballot measure expenditure plan. Some early Measure R2.1 outlines are already foreshadowed here and at the Los Angeles Times. That expenditure plan will be huge news, but there is other important Metro business going on at Metro board committee meetings this week. Dollar for dollar, this week’s committee business […]
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