New #shoupista UCLA report on parking construction costs. Did you know: 👉 avg cost to build underground parking = $73,000 per space ( excluding land cost) 👉 avg cost to build aboveground parking = $52,000 per space 👉 For apartments, required parking adds roughly $50,000-$100,000 per unit

Mayor Bass broke ground on a new pedestrian bridge today. The $152 million 12-acre Avalon Pedestrian Bridge & Promenade Gateway project to provide ped/bike to Wilmington Waterfront Promenade mayor.lacity.gov/news/mayor-b...

In other big Metro news today, 14 miles of SGV bus lanes (basically East L.A. to El Monte to La Puente) are on track to open before 2028 Olympics! la.streetsblog.org/2026/02/26/s...

Why isn’t LA repaving streets? With the city’s budget issues and new paving practices, the potholes and cracks on Los Angeles streets are only expected to worsen.

Take the subway from #BeverlyHills to #DTLA in 20 minutes, starting Friday May 8!! 4 new miles, 3 new stations!

Metro Board meeting: Board approved remote meeting stuff boardagendas.metro.net/board-report... Then went into closed session

THERE'S FINALLY A DATE!

Metro D Line subway extension will open Friday May 8! Four new miles, three new stations - first Metro rail connection to Beverly Hills. la.streetsblog.org/2026/02/26/m...

Metro Board meeting - now on World Cup 2026 shuttle bus contract item boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...

Metro Board meeting: now on eminent domain item - for East San Fernando Valley light rail project railyard boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...

Metro D Line subway extension to Beverly Hills will open on Friday May 8 2026. Four new miles of heavy rail subway. Three new stations on Wilshire: La Brea, Fairfax, La Cienega. Ride from Beverly Hills to DTLA in 20 minutes!

Listening in on 10am Metro Board meeting - about to get underway. Follow/watch online at boardagendas.metro.net/event/regula...

Streetsblog travels to #CulverCity and #DTLA in search of armadillos! #bikela

Listening in on the starting-soon 2pm L.A. City Council Planning (PLUM) Committee - which includes the city response to SB79 - follow online (including YouTube live audio) at lacity.primegov.com/Portal/Meeti...

Why do Caltrans projects take so long and cost so much? A multi-year study in the 5th round of outreach to consider creating a project to build bus lanes for a few miles.

I think this is our most fun video so far, and still informative, no?

Check out my #largeasphaltrepair story at @lapublicpress.bsky.social lapublicpress.org/2026/02/why-...

Listening in on 1pm Metro Ad Hoc Board Composition Committee. This is the first ever meeting of a new committee - follow online here boardagendas.metro.net/event/ad-hoc...

This is #largeasphaltrepair - 2 blocks from La Brea E Line Station

Metro Ops Cmte now on transit policing monthly update metro.legistar1.com/metro/attach...

"'[Car crashes are] one of the leading causes of premature death in this country,' said Jacob Wasserman, research program manager for @uclaits.bsky.social. …The danger of the car is not put in the same caliber.…They just become traffic. Incidents on the train…become a clickbait worthy spectacle."

Metro Ops Cmte: now on station activation item boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...

Metro Ops Cmte mtg: now on item 28 - monthly transit policing report boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...

Metro Ops Committee moving swiftly now: Item 25 Above Ground Facilities Improvement & Repairs Item 26 Metro Micro Software approved quickly by committee

Metro Ops Cmte mtg: quarterly zero-emission bus update - includes approving 19 New Flyer electric buses boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...

Metro Ops Committee - now on Chief Operating Officer report - presentation: metro.legistar1.com/metro/attach...

Metro Operations Committee: now on item 18 - southeast L.A. real-time information on bus stop poles. Hahn called this item special (non-consent) boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...

Listening in on 1pm Metro board Operations Committee meeting - just underway. Follow online at boardagendas.metro.net/event/operat...

the clean up bill should make LA even denser.

Unbelievable, but consistent with the pattern of Caltrans not valuing the lives of anyone outside of a car.

Metro Exec Mgmt Cmte mtg: now on Community Advisory Council update boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...

Listening in on 11am Metro Exec Mgmt Cmte meeting - follow online here boardagendas.metro.net/event/execut...

Metro Finance Cmte meeting: now on Access Services update boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...

Metro board Finance Committee meeting: now on FY26-27 budget development presentation item boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...

Listening in on Metro 10am Finance Committee meeting - about to get underway. Follow online at boardagendas.metro.net/event/financ...

L.A. City Planning has a new 69-page report out on the city's possible responses to CA transit-oriented housing law SB79. City SB79 response will be at PLUM committee next Tues 2/24 cityclerk.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2...

Pico Rivera is hosting a series of bike rides to help shape future bike plans. First ride is this Saturday 2/21 - have you ridden PR's Mines Ave. protected bike lanes? www.pico-rivera.org/upcoming-eve...

Metro Construction Cmte mtg: now on the big quarterly report on construction projects. Not a lot to report on D Line extension1 opening in “Spring 2026”.

Metro Construction Cmte mtg: now on Union Station run-through tracks item - called #LinkUS. Item would approve $200M for early construction (“pre-construction” budget would go from $300M to $500M)

Metro Construction Cmte meeting: now on Vermont Transit Corridor project: proposal is to approve $4.7M pre-construction work - and establish $198M pre-construction budget.

Metro Construction Committee meeting just underway. [I am in the room - usually I follow these meetings remotely - I was already downtown and my HLA business finished up so I figured I would pop in]

Najarian is currently on the metro planning and programming committee complaining that residents along the noho/pas corridor are objecting to the project

Report from today’s #MeasureHLA appeals before the Board of Public Works: 10 appeals (all submitted by me) heard, 10 appeals denied unanimously by BPW.

FYI - in case you typically come here for my live-tweeting of Metro board committee meeting, I won’t be posting those today (10am Planning Cmte, 1pm Construction Cmte). I am off work today due to HLA stuff in court & at Bd of Public Works. I will be back posting Metro mtgs tomorrow!

Measure HLA lawsuit update: today’s hearing/ruling postponed until March 12

Board of Public Works: we may not know the name of the street, but we know it doesn’t get walk/bike/bus improvements [these should be “Witmer” St. and Vermont “Avenue”]

Action alert: @carlitelb.bsky.social asking for your support for preserving city plans to upgrade bike/walk features on the 2nd Street Bridge www.reddit.com/r/longbeach/...

Today @lataco.bsky.social launched a fundraiser to help me start their investigative news desk. We're hoping to raise $25k to help pay for lab tests, analyze ICE data that the Daily Memo's been compiling + work with more freelancers. Been dreaming of this for years! givebutter.com/la-taco-inve...

My latest look at so-called " #largeasphaltrepair " ...what a mess. The city is leaving cracked/failed asphalt strips in order to not comply with ADA or HLA laws.

Santa Monica is upgrading Broadway bike lanes - concrete curb protection on the way. Construction now from 4th to 9th. (Will extend to 26th)