Joe Linton
Recent Posts
Metro/Caltrans Neighborhood Erasure along the Lower 5 Freeway
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Metro and Caltrans have erased hundreds of houses, apartments, and businesses - in the cities of Norwalk and Santa Fe Springs - to widen the 5 Freeway
Metro CEO Phil Washington Named To Biden Transition Team
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Washington is the Team Lead reviewing the federal Department of Transportation, National Transportation Safety Board, Amtrak, and Maritime Commission
Metro Board Unanimously Approves Motion to Delay 605/5 Freeway Widening and Instead Study Alternatives
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Metro's Board sends a strong rebuke to Metro's Highway Program
Metro Plans to Take Out 200+ Downey Homes to Widen 5 and 605 Freeways
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Downey resident Alexandria Contreras says Metro's "I-605 Corridor Improvement Project" is "not an improvement, it's destruction, state sanctioned violence.... immoral and unjust."
Over Budget, Five Years Late, I-5 Widening Sparks Metro-Caltrans Debate on Who Pays Cost Overruns
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The three- to four-year-long 5 Freeway widening project through Burbank is now expected to take eight years of construction
Why Won’t Metro Promote Its New Electric Buses?
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Announcing a Streetsblog contest: submit your designs for how Metro should promote its exciting new electric bus fleet
Mayor Garcetti Introduces New Metro TAP App – Riders Can Now Use Phone To Pay Fare
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Riders can now use iPhones to pay fare on Metro bus and rail, Metro Bike Share, and L.A. County municipal operator buses
Metro Kicks Off G Line Bus Electrification
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Six months late, Metro now has its first electric bus operating on the popular Metro G Line BRT in the San Fernando Valley
L.A. Cyclists Ride for Justice for George Floyd
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More than a thousand cyclists, mainly Black and Latinx, commemorated the death of George Floyd via a peaceful South L.A. RIde for Justice
Metro Sides with Police, Against Riders
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By suspending service and shuttling arrestees, Metro leadership sided with the police, against the needs of its largely Black and brown ridership
Operation Gridlock Protest Brings Around 60 Drivers to Downtown L.A.
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Attendance peaked at about 60 cars, carrying about 90 people. Drivers were outnumbered by a large contingent of LAPD officers, and by press camerapersons and photographers.
Beverly Hills to Speed Subway Construction
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A proposal to take advantage of decreased traffic could save 6 months on Purple Line subway construction