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StreetsblogLA
10 months
Thinking that maybe Santa Monica is on to something with this protected intersection thing - anyone think this will catch on?
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Culver City piloted quick cheap bus/bike/walk improvements in the heart of the city. The results are now in: 52% higher bus ridership, 32% more bicycling, 18% more walking. 👏👏👏
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2 years
Some Sherman Oaks anti-rail homeowners are at it again - new flier spotted. RUNS ABOVE SEPULVEDA! Trains every 45 seconds! (a thread)
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2 years
Regional Connector test train and protected bike lane - on First Street in Little Tokyo
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2 years
This morning, Metro Board Planning Committee voted to adopt a "No Build" alternative for Metro/Caltrans 710 Freeway widening project. It's unprecedented for these agencies to do this - abandoning decades of work ($60+M worth) of designs/studies/engineering on widening. (a thread)
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2 years
Big news: Metro just canceled 710 Freeway widening project. The board just undid its 2018 approval of a $6+B widening that would have torn down neighborhoods to add two more lanes.
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2 years
@EYCEJ @CBECal @CleanairCA @MoveLATransit @LBACA_ @NRDC @AliSaleh @ClimateResolve Metro board unanimously approves consent calendar - includes approving lower 710 Freeway 'No Build' alternative
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1 year
At press event for new @LADOTofficial @cd1losangeles bus stop shade/light structure “la sombrita” at 3rd & Union
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Wooo hooo! Metro is increasing frequency on all of its light rail lines! In December, the A and E lines will run every 8 minutes (currently every 10 min) - so in the overlap area in DTLA, that's a train every 4 minutes
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5 years
Nobody rides transit in L.A.
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2 years
It's surprising how much freeway widening Metro and Caltrans do - without full environmental studies. When Metro does a BRT or bike project they spend years on EIR stuff (despite a CA law exempting these from CEQA) but adding lanes to freeway: categorically exempt! (short thread)
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2 years
The city removes DIY crosswalks faster than they remove large boulders placed in the public right-of-way
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At Hollywood Blvd press event - announcing bike and bus lanes coming to Hollywood Blvd
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2 years
This is the image that Bakersfield uses at the top of its Centennial Corridor [new freeway] webpage. Does this feel creepy to anyone? Feels like a high production value shot of a grave site? 271+ Black/Latino families lost their homes here. It's a scar on the land.
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2 years
How a real city does a protected bikeway on a new bridge
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Waterfront Toronto
2 years
The first new bridge in the Port Lands is open! People are already walking, cycling, and driving across the sleek yellow bridge at Polson Street, the first of 3 new connections to the future Villiers Island. (1/3)
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6 months
Right now - until 11am on the freeway: Arroyo Fest! #arroyofest #arroyofest2023
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DTLA has protected intersections - with real concrete islands! 7th Street project completed from San Pedro St to Spring St
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1 year
And the loud music is somehow really headache inducing … especially bad coupled with a 10+ minute wait for B Line train
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2 years
At Downtown Redlands for the ribbon-cutting for new @Metrolink @goSBCTA Arrow line from Redlands to downtown San Bernardino
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2 years
Boarding the first Metro K Line train northbound out of Leimert Park Station
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3 months
Protected bike lanes planned for much of Hollywood Blvd!
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The plan features over 2 miles of parking-protected bike lanes between Gower and Fountain, the first installation of protected bike lanes anywhere in CD13. At least one section accomplishes this by removing a travel lane, an immediate and very welcome traffic-calming measure.
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2 years
The @metrolosangeles K Line is open!
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3 years
So much that's wrong with L.A. Transit in one rendering: hellish loud polluted freeway station, cumbersome path to get there, no there there - just huge parking structure, featureless industrial building. Rendering of Sepulveda Transit Monorail at Sepulveda Orange
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5 months
The Orwellian-language award of the day goes to @metrolosangeles ! They're planning to spend $174M to add one more lane to the 91 Freeway... but Metro doesn't call it adding a lane, it's "elimination of a lane reduction"!!!
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1 year
@AaronGuhreen @LADOTofficial @cd1losangeles This is a prototype (they made and installed 4 of these) that cost “just under $10K” to design/build/install. They expect cost to produce would be much lower if produced in larger number.
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3 years
Hey @metrolosangeles - there's some kind of glitch in the new website - a bunch of Metro highway expansion projects are mistakenly listed under the "Less Traffic" category
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1 year
Summer 2022: “hey drivers, we opened a new half-billion dollar for you.” January 2023: “hey pedestrians, we’ll get around to your bridge entrance when we get around to it”
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Long Beach has been doing some positive bike/transit projects in conjunction with new development. These ones added short protected bikeways at transit stops along new housing
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2 years
The press got a preview ride of @metrolosangeles nearly-complete #dtla Regional Connector subway - expected to open this fall 2022
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Metro’s block-long #LittleTokyo #DTLA Alameda Esplanade appears ~99.9% done - new signs, bike/walk pavement markings
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Just a couple photos of LA City firefighters aptly using the Figueroa bus only lanes to get through downtown LA
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L.A. City voters approved* Measure HLA (*99.9% sure) supporting for healthier safer multimodal future, with more bus lanes, more bike lanes, upgraded crosswalks and more
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L.A. Metro ridership surpassed Chicago (interesting that NYC measures ridership in billions, others are in the hundreds of millions)
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It's #SpotifyWrapped time! In our version of #TransitWrapped , see the U.S. public transportation agencies with the highest ridership between Sept. '23 and Oct. '22. 1. @MTA 2.8 Billion 2. @metrolosangeles 280 Million 3. @cta 270 Million 4. @wmata 243 Million 5. @MBTA 239 Million
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11 months
At the Metro Regional Connector opening ceremony in Little Tokyo
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11 months
Entering the Little Tokyo Regional Connector @metrolosangeles A/E Line Station for the first time!
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1 year
Progress on LA’s 7th Street curb-protected bike lane in DTLA! Currently work has 7th St closed at Los Angeles Street
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3 months
Alameda Esplanade rain gardens doing their job today
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9 months
Hey @MetroLosAngeles - does a global-warming induced once-in-lifetime hurricane event give you any pause on all that freeway widening you’re doing? Time to end all that freeway expansion
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2 years
This @latimes graph deserves its own tweet. Since 1991, @CaltransHQ freeway projects that displaced 100+ homes, LAT found that ALL 1,254 homes were in non-white areas - none in white neighborhoods.
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7 months
Whistleblower Jeanie Ward-Waller says Caltrans demoted her because she objected to freeway expansion (ie: she said Caltrans had to follow CA laws/rules, not go around them)
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5 months
Research finds L.A. Al Fresco outdoor dining saved businesses: replacing on-street parking with outdoor seating was great for business and the city profited, compared to on-street parking revenue
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1 year
Disappointing that @MayorOfLA Bass’ team didn’t post an original tweet (not counting around a dozen @metrolosangeles retweets) about Metro until today, when she chose to uplift MetroMicro - an astonishingly wasteful program that is cannibalizing bus operations funding
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2 years
Metro/Caltrans to approve "no build" alternative for lower 710 Freeway widening. Pretty unusual that an agency would spend $160+M on freeway widening studies, then turn around & not build. Kudos to community groups @EYCEJ @NRDC @LASmogGuy & others
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8 months
The 6-lane moat that protects Metro Grand Avenue Station from pedestrians (was 4 lanes before Metro expanded it)
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1 year
More Regional Connector looks-ready-to-open construction photos. First: Little Tokyo
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3 years
Looks like Christmas on Figueroa
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11 months
Regional Connector Grand/Arts Station- opens in 2 weeks
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2 years
Fixed that headline for you, @metrolosangeles
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11 months
How it looked then (2020): How it's going now:
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3 years
@JoeLinton The Metro board is expected to approve free student fares this week. If approved, fares will look like this: age 0-4: free age 5: $1.75 age 6-~18: free age 18+: $1.75
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10 months
Hey @metrolosangeles & @LADOTofficial - how can we fix this? Why so many bike/walk facilities dropped from Regional Connector plans??
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6 months
Hey @metrolosangeles & @CaltransDist7 - how did widening the 91 Freeway in solidly Latino/Black North Long Beach pass your equity policies? Metro - please don’t approve $174M for this project today
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8 months
Hey @metrolosangeles @MayorOfLA Bass - now that the #DTLA Regional Connector has been open for months, how about moving the northbound Broadway/3rd bus stop (a half-block away) to be at the Broadway station?
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7th Street #DTLA making progress- nearly done east of Spring St
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10 months
@metrolosangeles @esgarciaa @bussit_bbLA Metro doubles down on the tired highway-builder myth that more and more and more freeways will somehow mean fewer idling cars... but (see Metro's 405 Freeway widening) widening induces more driving and more congestion, resulting in more of those "bad idling cars."
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3 years
Newly protected bike lane on Figueroa Street in #DTLA - from Wilshire to 2nd - just above MyFig. Includes several new bike signal heads. Thanks @LADOTofficial & @kdeleon !
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2 years
The number of drivers illegally proceeding straight ahead at @WeHoCity ’s diverter at Willoughby/Ogden is disappointing
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9 months
Anyone seeing Metro transit stories from Swifties last night? How did the first night go for folks taking Metro?
@stevscaz
Steve Scauzillo
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Sign at the B/D lines turnstile at Union Station LA directing Swifties to train connections #SCNG #dailynews
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4 months
New @LADOTofficial safe routes to school installation (nearly complete - Young Oak Kim Middle School students helping today) on Shatto Place, next to Metro B Line Wilshire/Vermont Station.
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Ugh - pathetic that @CD13LosAngeles (Cm Soto-Martinez) asked LADOT to identify bus/bike projects - and this map is basically all LADOT could find (and most of these LADOT says need further study)
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@EYCEJ @CBECal @Earthjustice @LegalAidLA @LBACA_ @LiBRE_justice @NRDC @UEPI @metrolosangeles @CaltransDist7 @ToksOmishakin @Tony_D7Director @HildaSolis @SupJaniceHahn But, right now, the planned $6B 710 Freeway widening project is officially dead. 710 Freeway widening is officially not being considered any more. Cause for celebration!
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10 months
At the opening ceremony for the new @LADOTofficial @metrolosangeles Venice Blvd bus lanes and newly protected bike lanes
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From Mayor Bass press release, actions being taken by Metro during 10 closure: - Metro adds buses: Lines 66 (Olympic) & 251 (Soto) - Bass "directed LADOT to assist Metro in the E line which runs along the 10 the freeway closures go faster for Angelenos taking the train"
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Not a good sign: after I @JoeLinton used an East Hollywood segment of Virgil Avenue as an example where @BSSLosAngeles would soon add bike/walk upgrades under Measure HLA, BSS erased that segment from their online repaving map. Below are yesterday and today's screenshots
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1 year
Metro and LADOT are slowly moving toward on-bus camera enforcement ticketing drivers parking in bus lanes - looks like there will be a pilot on Wilshire/6th starting this fall. (thread)
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6 years
Protected bike lane coming to Spring St in #DTLA - old green lane erased and new preliminary striping down (👍🏻👍🏻new lane is on left - better for avoiding conflict with buses)
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Construction proceeding on 7th Street curb-protected bike lanes - in #DTLA
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Gonna go out on a limb and suggest that if Metro wants to support transit and clean air, there are better ways than spending ~$200M on widening the 91 Freeway
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5 years
Shocking rendering of the scenic #ShermanOaks vista that Metro rail will "RUIN." Will no one think of the freeway ramp views? The community character!?!?
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3 years
Have folks noticed- is the @metrolosangeles Orange Line pretty much 100% electric buses these days? First time I @JoeLinton have been to #NoHo - didn’t spend long at the station - but all I saw were e-buses
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Yay! Thanks @metrolosangeles for replacing elevator signage at Wilshire/Vermont Station (after/before photos)
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@Oxoftheblocks @LADOTofficial @cd1losangeles Note that L.A. has thousands of bus shelters, almost as nice as the one pictured. LA also has thousands of stops with no shelter, just a pole. The idea behind the [imperfect] new shade/light structure is that it could be fairly cheaply mass-produced for bus stops w/o shelters
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2 years
After a half-dozen @latimes stories about declining Metro ridership, it feels like yesterday's crime-on-transit story buried the lede: "[Metro transit] ridership has rebounded to about 843,000 weekday daily riders from a pandemic low of about 363,800"
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1 year
For a little more context, see 🧵
@sahrasulaiman
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A little bit of context. This is LADOT and KDI claiming this structure is an innovative response to gender-specific concerns about safety and comfort at bus stops.
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10 months
The Streetsblog LA team is proud to receive tonight’s @LAPressClub award for best Group Blog!
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10 months
These renderings for what @metrolosangeles proposed for Little Tokyo Station area look great. Sad to see what Metro cut: rainwater tree sidewalks/medians on Los Angeles St, People St ped plaza on Traction at Alameda. Why can't L.A. peds/cyclists have nice things?
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@awalkerinLA @GovKathyHochul Ugh. Jarring tweet. "Foot on the accelerator" and "climate goals" aren't really compatible with each other.
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11 months
The Metro Regional Connector is open!!
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7 months
Metro board meeting: now on to CEO Wiggins report: ridership up - bus up, rail up a lot. Regional Connector lines ridership up 29% weekdays, 45% weekends. Overall Metro weekend ridership now at 97% of pre-pandemic levels
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2 months
Looking at #CicLAvia photos noticing how much more space-efficient biking and walking are. This many people won't fit on Melrose Avenue on most days when it's full of cars.
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2 years
Bonin – more than pretty much any other Southern California elected official – consistently prioritized support for the most vulnerable among us – people without homes, bus riders, essential workers, people on foot and bike.
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6 years
Metro Exec Mgmt Cmte: approves motion to provide free transit on November 6 election day
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2 years
Preliminary striping on Venice Blvd west of La Cienega- newly protected bike lane (preserving three car lanes & parking in both directions)
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At #YesonHLA press event - lots of LA City Councilmember supporters here
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8 months
Don't believe the untested hydrogen tech hype - because L.A. already has tried-and-true zero-emission electric catenary rail mobility - and should be doing a lot more of it. Guest editorial by RailPAC's Brian Yanity
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4 years
Some good news: Beverly Hills and Metro are looking to take advantage of COVID-19 traffic reduction to speed up Purple Line subway construction - could save 6 months if all goes well
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2 years
More #MetroRegionalConnector photos from this morning’s press tour
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Recent/new 2-way protected bike lanes in #SantaAna - with rain garden infiltration medians - on Santiago Street in front of the Santa Ana train station
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