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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.

CicLAvia - South Los Angeles. Photos by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

CicLAvia South L.A. 2021 – Open Thread

By Joe Linton | Dec 6, 2021 | No Comments

Tens of thousands enjoyed the five-mile long route on portions of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Crenshaw Boulevard

Today’s Headlines

By Joe Linton | Dec 6, 2021 | No Comments

L.A. Looks To Turn Some Caltrans 710 Freeway Homes Into Affordable Housing (LAist, LAT)
Metro Motion Looks To Get Agency In Position For High-Speed Rail Funds (Colorado Blvd)
Metrolink Shutting Down San Bernardino Line For Two Days (Whittier Daily News)
Carnage: Couple Killed In Manhattan Beach Crash (Daily Breeze)
…Norwalk Driver Sentenced For 6 Years For Deadly DUI (Whittier Daily News)
…Whittier Mourns Teen Killed In Black Friday Car Crash (Whittier Daily News)
4-Story, 31-Unit, No Parking Affordable Housing Planned Near Vermont/Sunset Station (Urbanize)
L.A. Voters Back Duplexes In Single-Family Zones (LAT)
Oil C0mpany Profits Soared As Gas Prices Rose (Guardian)

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2014 Metro photo of County Sheriff deputies policing - via Metro's The Source

Metro Approves Transit Policing Contract Extension, While Setting Up Some Shift to Alternatives

By Joe Linton | Dec 3, 2021 | No Comments

The one year contract extension combines with other Metro approvals to queue up a planned partial shift of resources away from armed law enforcement to a community safety approach

Talking Headways Podcast: Optimism on Infrastructure

By Jeff Wood | Dec 3, 2021 | No Comments

This week we’re joined by Linda Samuels, associate professor of urban design at Washington University in St. Louis, to talk about her book "Infrastructural Optimism." We chat about how growth for growth’s sake is not the answer, learn from postmodernist urbanism, and why systems should be more connected.

Today’s Headlines

By Joe Linton | Dec 3, 2021 | No Comments

Metro Approves Policing Contract Extension (LAist, Daily News)
CicLAvia Coming To South L.A. This Sunday (LAist)
Metro Kicks Off Sepulveda Transit EIR Comment Period (Urbanize)
Santa Monica Wants Feedback On Making Ocean Avenue More Welcoming (LAist)
CA Approves $73M For L.A. Vets Supportive Housing (Urbanize)
Emails Show How Huizar Helped Developers Beat the System (L.A. Taco)
Alissa Walker: Mayor Garcetti Ignored Serial Harasser Aide (NY Mag)

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Rendering of West Foothill Boulevard and Grand Avenue in Glendora. This project, which would reduce general travel lanes, add continental crosswalks and bike lanes is included in the East SGV Sustainable Multimodal Improvement Project proposal. Image: City of Glendora

Seven-City East SGV Project Recommended for $15 million for Bike/Ped, Bus, and First-Last Mile Measure M Funding

By Kristopher Fortin | Dec 2, 2021 | No Comments

The East San Gabriel Valley Sustainable Multimodal Improvement Project would span Azusa, Claremont, Covina, Glendora, La Verne, Pomona, San Dimas

Today’s Headlines

By Joe Linton | Dec 2, 2021 | No Comments

Sheriff Villanueva Wants LASD To Do All Metro Transit Policing (Daily News)
Villanueva Posting Videos Of Him Riding Metro Trains This Week (@LACoSheriff Twitter)
…Transit policing on today’s 10 a.m. Metro board meeting agenda
More On Metro North County I-5 Freeway Widening (SC Signal, Daily News, The Source)
Metro Starts Environmental Review For Sepulveda Transit (Daily Breeze)
Carnage: 14 Cows Killed In Trucks/Motorcycle Crash In San Bernardino (LAT)
Settlement Reached To Build 20,000 Homes In Tejon Ranch (LAT)
Biden Admin Leasing Public Lands For Oil, Why Not Solar And Wind? (LAT)

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County Supervisor Kathryn Barger at this morning's I-5 North County widening groundbreaking, where she claimed that this project will "reduce pollution." Image via Facebook stream

Metro Leaders Make False Claims at North County 5 Freeway Widening Groundbreaking

By Joe Linton | Dec 1, 2021 | No Comments

Does anyone really believe that this freeway expansion will really clean the air? Advance equity? Is suburban highway widening any kind of equity model for other projects in the region and the state?

Today’s Headlines

By Joe Linton | Dec 1, 2021 | No Comments

Reminder: Metro Resumes Fare Collection On January 10 (The Source)
Metro Seeking Public Comment On Sepulveda Transit Alternatives (The Source)
The Source Previews Tomorrow’s Metro Board Meeting
L.A. Approves Using Eminent Domain To Complete Expo Path (NBC, Biking in L.A.)
Court Quashes Legal Challenge To CA High-Speed Rail (LAT)
Carnage: Driver Kills Woman Walking On Freeway In Highland Park (LAT)
…Serious Injuries In Santa Clarita Freeway Crash (SC Signal)
…Fatal Hit-and-Run Driver Sentenced To 2 Years Prison (SGV Tribune)
L.A. Adopts Housing Element Plan (Urbanize)
L.A. Votes To Push State To Better Support Street Vendors (LAist)
Take Metro To This Sunday’s South L.A. CicLAvia (The Source)

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Construction on the Sixth Street Viaduct is nearing completion. Photos by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

More Progress on the New Sixth Street Viaduct

By Joe Linton | Nov 30, 2021 | No Comments

Nearly all of the 20 iconic arches now appear complete

Advocates to Biden: There’s A Better Way to Address Rising Gas Prices

By Kea Wilson | Nov 30, 2021 | No Comments

Sustainable transportation advocates are sending a clear message to Washington: the best way to address rising gas prices is to cut oil demand, not increase supply.

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