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Reimagining a Healthy and Sustainable Streets in Monterey Park/Alhambra Hands-on Place It Workshop

By James Rojas | Dec 8, 2021 | No Comments

Monterey Park and Alhambra’s commercial streets are a physical and mental assault to the human body. People don’t enjoy walking or using public transit on them. The solution to this problem has traditionally been for people to buy bigger cars and these cities widen the roads exacerbating the problem. The Asian Pacific Islander Forward Movement […]

Today’s Headlines

By Joe Linton | Dec 8, 2021 | No Comments

Car Crash Deaths Surged During COVID Pandemic (LAT) Metro and Community College District Celebrate Student Fareless Pilot (LAist, Daily News) that was announced October 1 for LAUSD, but today student passes still unavailable L.A. City Council Adopts Council Redistricting Map (LAT, LAist, Daily News) …Redistricting Plagued By Equity Issues (LAist) Biden Administration Sides With Labor, […]

Smog over Los Angeles. Image: Metro Library, CC

Study: Drivers Responsible For Way More Ammonia Pollution Than Previously Thought

By Kea Wilson | Dec 7, 2021 | No Comments

Federal and state agencies may be underestimating the amount of dangerous ammonia emissions that cars pump into the atmosphere by as much as a factor of five, a new study finds — and maybe more in urban areas.

Today’s Headlines

By Joe Linton | Dec 7, 2021 | No Comments

Past Dec 1 Deadline, 28% Of Metro Workers Have Not Reported Vaccination Status (LAT) Recap Of Last Week’s Metro Board Meeting Decisions (The Source) …Recap Of Last Week’s Board Approval Of Extending Transit Policing Contract (The Source) Carnage: Highland Park DUI Driver Crashes Into 4 People and Gas Station (Eastsider) …Driver Crashes Into, Kills Good […]

This Week In Livable Streets

By Joe Linton | Dec 6, 2021 | No Comments

Metro's lower 710 Freeway widening listening sessions, Rock the Boulevard and more

Interior of a TriMet bus (in the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area) with numerous seats marked by "Don't sit here" signs intended to encourage spatial-distancing (in accordance with a temporary 10-passenger limit for buses) during the Covid-19 pandemic. Image: Steve Morgan, CC

STUDY: Transit Agencies Are Planning a Radically Equitable COVID Recovery

By Kea Wilson | Dec 6, 2021 | No Comments

A staggering 88 percent of U.S. transit agencies expect that historically disenfranchised riders will be their primary customers as they recover from the pandemic, a new study finds.

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