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What’s In the US DOT ‘Equity Action Plan’ — And What’s Missing

By Kea Wilson | Apr 22, 2022 | No Comments

A new federal action plan to advance "equity" in the transportation realm includes concrete commitments to reform a transportation network that too often disenfranchises marginalized people — but it doesn't go far enough, some say.

Two Big Reasons Oregon Keeps Expanding Freeways

By Joe Cortright | Apr 22, 2022 | No Comments

Highway widening advocates offer up a kind of manifest destiny storyline: population and traffic are ever-increasing, and unless we accommodate them we’ll be awash in cars, traffic and gridlock. The rising tide of cars is treated as a irresistible force of nature. But is it?

Today’s Headlines

By Joe Linton | Apr 22, 2022 | No Comments

L.A. County Reinstates Mask Mandate On Transit, At Airport (LAT, LAist, Daily News, Pasadena Now, CBS, The Source) Healthy Streets L.A. Pushed To Implement Plan That City Hasn’t (LAist) Inglewood City Council Approves $1.4B People Mover (Urbanize) More On New Canoga Park River Bike Path (Daily News, NBC4, CBS, Biking in L.A.) Carnage: Hit-and-Run Driver […]

L.A. City Councilmember Bob Blumenfield (left) riding the new section of L.A. River path. Photos by Joe Linton/Streetsblog

Councilmember Blumenfield Opens New L.A. River Headwaters Bike/Walk Path

By Joe Linton | Apr 21, 2022 | No Comments

The new 1.3 mile long segment - from Owensmouth Avenue to Mason Avenue - expands the existing West Valley river path to just over three miles

Today’s Headlines

By Joe Linton, Sahra Sulaiman and Melanie Curry | Apr 21, 2022 | No Comments

Murder Charge for Driver Who Killed Griffith Park Bicycle Rider (LA Times) Activists Say L.A. Is Barely Following Its Plan To Improve Streets. They Want Voters To Make Them (LAist) Sheriff Candidates Blast Villanueva with “Fiery Criticism” (CBSnews; full debate can be found here) Speaking of the Sheriff, tomorrow is the day he is being […]

Today’s Headlines

By Joe Linton | Apr 20, 2022 | No Comments

After Ruling, Metro Drops Mask Mandate On Transit (The Source, Eastsider) …Muni Bus Operators Dropping Mask Mandates (Downey Patriot, Footnotes) …L.A. County COVID Positivity Rate Ticks Upward (AV Times) Senator Padilla Celebrates $5M For $3B Metro Van Nuys Light Rail (The Source, Daily News, CBS) Pasadena Planning Craig Avenue Bike/Ped Greenway, Meeting 4/28 (Pasadena Now) […]

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