Metro/Caltrans 605/5 Freeway Expansion Approval is a Year Off
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Metro is planning community outreach and a less harmful 605CIP alternative to be incorporated into a new EIR/EIS document to be released about a year from now
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Crosstown Looks At the Statistics On Free Metro Transit
- Metro Hosting Scoping Meetings On 10 Freeway Express Lanes Project (The Source)
- SCAG and Others Hosting Workshops On N. 710 Mobility Hubs (The Source)
- Lawsuit Claims Sheriff Villanueva Covered Up Jail Video For Months (LAT, LAist)
- Carnage: Off-Duty Police Detective Killed in Norwalk Car Crash (Whittier Daily News)
…Motorcyclist Seriously Injured In Crash Near Lancaster (AV Times)
…Motorcyclist Seriously Injured In Crash In Palmdale (AV Times) - Two Days In A Row Of L.A. County Heat Records (LAist, Daily Breeze)
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STUDY: Asphalt Art Decreases Vulnerable Road User Crashes By 50 Percent
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Turns out, paint can be protection, at least when it's done right. Installing asphalt art on roads and intersection can cut crashes between motorists and other road users by a staggering 50 percent, a new study finds.
Eyes on the Street: New First Street Protected Bike Lane
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The new First Street lane extends 0.6-mile from Mission Road to Alameda Street - it's part of Metro's Little Tokyo/Arts District Eastside Access Improvements
This Week In Livable Streets
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626 Golden Streets, L.A. City Council candidates debate, Metro, 55 Freeway widening, L.A. Walks fundraiser, and more
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- FTA Recognizes Antelope Valley Transit Agency For Climate Accomplishments (AV Times)
- L.A./LB Has Worst Pollution In U.S. (Daily News)
- Make Griffith Park Safer For Non-Drivers (LAT)
- Metro Hosting Meetings On Vermont Transit Corridor Project (The Source, LAist)
- Metro Requires Masks (The Source)
…Foothill Transit Requires Masks (Footnotes)
…LB Transit Requires Masks (LB Post) - Santa Monica Seeks Input On Parklet Program (SMDP)
- Carnage: Woman Killed In Wrong-Way Crash On 105 In El Segundo (Daily News)
…Man Killed In Three-Car Crash On 105 In El Segundo (Daily News) - 130-Unit Affordable Housing Breaks Ground In Panorama City (Urbanize)
- 8-Story 42-Apartment 36-Parking Space Mixed Use Planned At Beverly/Alvarado (Urbanize)
- OCTA Hosting Webinar Meetings On 55 Freeway Widening
- Climate Activists Protest Growing Port/Ship Pollution (LB Post)
- More Record Temperatures For L.A. County (Daily News)
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What’s In the US DOT ‘Equity Action Plan’ — And What’s Missing
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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
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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?
Metro Committee Approves Plan For NoHo-Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit
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Metro Planning Committee approved final plans for the North Hollywood to Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit project - with the Beautiful Boulevard's "one lane" configuration through Eagle Rock
Today’s Headlines
| | 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 Kills Pedestrian In LB (LB Post, LAT)
…Driver Crashes Into, Kills Pedestrian In Lancaster (AV Times)
…Driver Killed In Solo Car Crash In Valencia (SC Signal)
…Pedestrian Dies In Hospital Two Days After LB Car Crash (LB Post) - New Bruce’s Beach Plaque Could Come By Juneteenth (Daily Breeze)
- Too Much Concrete In River Revitalization Plans (LAist)
- Carson and L.A. County Look To Study Dominguez Creek Revitalization (Daily Breeze)
- Cougar-Friendly Wildlife Crossing Breaks Ground In Agoura Hills (LAT)
- It’s Earth Day, Free Rides On Metro Transit & Bike-Share, Metrolink, Pasadena Transit and Others
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Councilmember Blumenfield Opens New L.A. River Headwaters Bike/Walk Path
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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
| | 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 forced to testify about deputy gangs under oath (LAT)
- Still speaking of the Sheriff, KFI posted that truly awful crime montage video Villanueva threatened to release as part of his fearmongery saber-rattling at Metro because of course they did (Alissa Walker tweet). Rather than link to the abhorrent video, we will supply the supposed (and, ahem, highly unlikely) sentiments from an anonymous officer who reportedly told KFI that “he remembered years ago when the biggest concerns they had on the Metro was loud music and the occasional smoker.” We will also remind you that Sheriff candidates continue to complain that KFI is violating election and broadcasting rules by allowing Villanueva to continue with his weekly show.
- Unlivable conditions persist at South L.A. Chesapeake Apts., even after the City intervened (LAT)
- Harbor City Sweeps Lead to Confusion, Frustration (KNOCK-LA)
- It Should Soon Be Safer to Walk to School in Los Nietos Area (Whittier Daily News)
- Yet Another Pedestrian Killed on a Freeway, in El Cajon (Fox5)
- And Yet Another Mountain Lion Killed on a Freeway – this time the 405 (LAT)
- Metro Begins Testing Trains on Regional Connector (ABC7)
- San Fernando Valley Light Rail to Get Federal Funding (Railway Technology)
- All the Different Ways Planning Tries, and Fails, to Solve Congestion (Planetizen)
- Mayoral Candidates’ Takes on Climate (LA Times)
- Karen Bass interview on nonviolent solutions to crime, homelessness (KCRW)
- OC City of Costa Mesa Opens New Protected and Improved Bike Lanes
- SEPTA pairs Philly transit officers with social workers, part of a national trend towards alternative approaches to safety on transit (NPR)
- Riding a Bike Should Not Be this Dangerous (NYT)
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