Joe Linton
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Editor at Streetsblog Los Angeles
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Streetsblog L.A.
2 days ago
Streetsblog travels to
#CulverCity
and
#DTLA
in search of armadillos!
#bikela
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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...
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Meeting
https://lacity.primegov.com/Portal/Meeting?meetingTemplateId=150286
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Michael Schneider
9 days ago
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.
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I think this is our most fun video so far, and still informative, no?
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Check out my
#largeasphaltrepair
story at
@lapublicpress.bsky.social
lapublicpress.org/2026/02/why-...
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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. With the city’s budget issues and new paving practices, the potholes...
https://lapublicpress.org/2026/02/why-isnt-la-repaving-streets/
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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...
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Ad Hoc Board Composition Committee - Metro Board
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https://boardagendas.metro.net/event/ad-hoc-board-composition-committee-0ea742005c09/
3 days ago
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This is
#largeasphaltrepair
- 2 blocks from La Brea E Line Station
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Metro Ops Cmte now on transit policing monthly update
metro.legistar1.com/metro/attach...
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https://metro.legistar1.com/metro/attachments/33a4f2b2-0a0b-4f0d-808b-93ee49486404.pdf
7 days ago
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Jacob Wasserman
7 days ago
"'[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."
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Opinion: UCLA community should embrace Metro despite imperfections - Daily Bruin
Los Angeles is a city known for everything fake. It filters every part of life through kept appearances, canning what works for what looks good, even if it kills us – like our car culture.
https://dailybruin.com/2026/02/16/ucla-community-should-embrace-metro-public-transportation-despite-imperfections
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Metro Ops Cmte: now on station activation item
boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...
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2026-0009 - STATION ACTIVATION QUARTERLY UPDATE - Metro Board
To access embedded hyperlinks, please download the report PDF by clicking "Download Board Report".
https://boardagendas.metro.net/board-report/2026-0009/
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Metro Ops Cmte mtg: now on item 28 - monthly transit policing report
boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...
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2025-1098 - INFORMATIONAL REPORT - Metro Board
To access embedded hyperlinks, please download the report PDF by clicking "Download Board Report".
https://boardagendas.metro.net/board-report/2025-1098/
7 days ago
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Metro Ops Committee moving swiftly now: Item 25 Above Ground Facilities Improvement & Repairs Item 26 Metro Micro Software approved quickly by committee
7 days ago
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Metro Ops Cmte mtg: quarterly zero-emission bus update - includes approving 19 New Flyer electric buses
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2025-0432 - ZERO EMISSION BUS (ZEB) PROGRAM UPDATE - Metro Board
To access embedded hyperlinks, please download the report PDF by clicking "Download Board Report".
https://boardagendas.metro.net/board-report/2025-0432/
7 days ago
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Metro Ops Committee - now on Chief Operating Officer report - presentation:
metro.legistar1.com/metro/attach...
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https://metro.legistar1.com/metro/attachments/276e8fb2-027b-4a7b-9a85-bcaa0892a8ac.pdf
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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...
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2025-1056 - E-PAPER BUS STOP ELECTRONIC DISPLAY - SOUTHEAST LOS ANGELES - Metro Board
To access embedded hyperlinks, please download the report PDF by clicking "Download Board Report".
https://boardagendas.metro.net/board-report/2025-1056/
7 days ago
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Listening in on 1pm Metro board Operations Committee meeting - just underway. Follow online at
boardagendas.metro.net/event/operat...
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Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee - Metro Board
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https://boardagendas.metro.net/event/operations-safety-and-customer-experience-72deba267598/
7 days ago
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Jonathan Eby
7 days ago
the clean up bill should make LA even denser.
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OB Cycler
7 days ago
Unbelievable, but consistent with the pattern of Caltrans not valuing the lives of anyone outside of a car.
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Metro Exec Mgmt Cmte mtg: now on Community Advisory Council update
boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...
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2025-1001 - COMMUNITY ADVISORY COUNCIL (CAC) QUARTERLY UPDATE - Metro Board
To access embedded hyperlinks, please download the report PDF by clicking "Download Board Report".
https://boardagendas.metro.net/board-report/2025-1001/
7 days ago
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Listening in on 11am Metro Exec Mgmt Cmte meeting - follow online here
boardagendas.metro.net/event/execut...
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Executive Management Committee - Metro Board
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https://boardagendas.metro.net/event/executive-management-committee-65c14e125de7/
7 days ago
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Metro Finance Cmte meeting: now on Access Services update
boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...
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2026-0012 - ACCESS SERVICES - SEMI-ANNUAL UPDATE - Metro Board
To access embedded hyperlinks, please download the report PDF by clicking "Download Board Report".
https://boardagendas.metro.net/board-report/2026-0012/
7 days ago
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Metro board Finance Committee meeting: now on FY26-27 budget development presentation item
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2026-0011 - FISCAL YEAR 2027 BUDGET DEVELOPMENT PROCESS: RESOURCES AND PARAMETERS - Metro Board
To access embedded hyperlinks, please download the report PDF by clicking "Download Board Report".
https://boardagendas.metro.net/board-report/2026-0011/
7 days ago
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Listening in on Metro 10am Finance Committee meeting - about to get underway. Follow online at
boardagendas.metro.net/event/financ...
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Finance, Budget and Audit Committee - Metro Board
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https://boardagendas.metro.net/event/finance-budget-and-audit-committee-8ad8ebf2d58c/
7 days ago
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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...
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https://cityclerk.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2025/25-1083_rpt_dcp_2-18-26.pdf
7 days ago
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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...
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Upcoming Events - City of Pico Rivera
Date:Â February 21, 2026
https://www.pico-rivera.org/upcoming-events/
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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”.
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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)
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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.
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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]
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Nick Andert
8 days ago
Najarian is currently on the metro planning and programming committee complaining that residents along the noho/pas corridor are objecting to the project
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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.
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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!
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Measure HLA lawsuit update: today’s hearing/ruling postponed until March 12
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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”]
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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/...
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From the longbeach community on Reddit: Action Alert: Tell Councilmember Kristina Duggan and Long Beach Public Works Not to Delay Critical Safety Upgrades on the 2nd Street Bridge!
Explore this post and more from the longbeach community
https://www.reddit.com/r/longbeach/comments/1r4qknj/action_alert_tell_councilmember_kristina_duggan/
8 days ago
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Shot On 35mm
9 days ago
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...
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L.A. TACO Investigative Journalism Fund
By L.A. TACO
https://givebutter.com/la-taco-investigative
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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.
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9 days ago
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Santa Monica is upgrading Broadway bike lanes - concrete curb protection on the way. Construction now from 4th to 9th. (Will extend to 26th)
10 days ago
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My lawsuit against LACity over
#MeasureHLA
will be in court next week: Wed Feb 18. But it won't be the big part of my case. There are 3 things I am contesting. Next week is a smaller wonky administrative chunk: asking the judge to nix the city's HLA ordinance.
labikas.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/m...
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Measure HLA Lawsuit Update – 22 October 2025
This week I, via my lawyers, filed a Motion for Summary Adjudication (see motion and statement of facts). Basically I am asking a judge to invalidate the city of L.A.’s Measure HLA ordinance.…
https://labikas.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/measure-hla-lawsuit-update-22-october-2025/
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Alissa Walker
13 days ago
In her State of the City Part I, Mayor Karen Bass recognized Juan Naula, whose community cleanups have gone viral. I called him up to get his ideas for how to address LA’s trash crisis and and he was not pleased with the mayor’s plan to clean the city with volunteers
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Talking trash
"You want to present this city to the world? I'm going to film the trash and show the world how dirty we are"
https://www.torched.la/talking-trash/
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Streetsblog L.A.
14 days ago
Practical
#biketips
: how to carry your bike on the stairs
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Drivers kill people. LADOT shifts into "look busy" mode - how about another survey?
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Streetsblog L.A.
15 days ago
Speed cameras are coming to L.A. City streets! View proposed locations and give your feedback
la.streetsblog.org/2026/02/11/l...
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L.A. Seeks Input on Proposed Speed Camera Locations - Streetsblog Los Angeles
L.A. is planning 125 speed camera systems citywide - location criteria includes histories of speeding/crashes/racing, areas with concentrated vulnerable populations, etc.
https://la.streetsblog.org/2026/02/11/l-a-seeks-input-on-proposed-speed-camera-locations
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LADOT posted the proposed list of speed camera locations!
ladot.lacity.gov/speed-safety...
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https://ladot.lacity.gov/speed-safety-system
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Streetsblog California
15 days ago
Short Vid: No, California did not just pass a tax on miles driven.#conspiracytheory
#lies
#gastax
#california
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Santa Monica Next
15 days ago
Eyes on the Street: Bikeway Construction on Broadway at 6th Street. Photo via Eli Gill
santamonicanext.org/2026/02/eyes...
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Should I be suspicious? Two years after voters approved
#MeasureHLA
an LADOT video is actually promoting the city's Mobility Plan 2035 and HLA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ6S...
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City of Los Angeles - Mobility Plan 2035
YouTube video by LADOT Official
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ6SKdt9RXE
15 days ago
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Insert some comment here about Lyft keeps wanting to operate L.A.'s Metro Bike Share but got caught cheating on the bid process twice
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15 days ago
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I have reason to suspect that AI was used to generate this video!
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Streetsblog L.A.
15 days ago
Photos of new official accessible access points along the Chandler bike/walk path
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Eyes on the Path: L.A. City Adding New Access Points to Chandler Path - Streetsblog Los Angeles
New accessible ramp under construction at Strohm Avenue
https://la.streetsblog.org/2026/02/10/eyes-on-the-path-city-adding-new-access-points-to-chandler-path
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