Joe Linton
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Editor at Streetsblog Los Angeles
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Joe Linton
Streetsblog L.A.
about 6 hours ago
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
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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...
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https://mayor.lacity.gov/news/mayor-bass-celebrates-port-los-angeles-groundbreaking-152-million-avalon-pedestrian-bridge-and
about 7 hours ago
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Joe Linton
Streetsblog L.A.
about 9 hours ago
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!
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SGV Bus Rapid Transit Gets Another $3.9M for Study and Design - Streetsblog Los Angeles
Early bus lane segments combine for about 7 miles of continuous bus lanes, expected to be installed in advance of the 2028 Olympic games.
https://la.streetsblog.org/2026/02/26/sgv-bus-rapid-transit-gets-another-3-9m-for-study-and-design
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Joe Linton
LA Public Press
3 days ago
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.
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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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Joe Linton
Streetsblog L.A.
about 9 hours ago
Take the subway from
#BeverlyHills
to
#DTLA
in 20 minutes, starting Friday May 8!! 4 new miles, 3 new stations!
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Metro Board meeting: Board approved remote meeting stuff
boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...
Then went into closed session
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2026-0166 - FINDINGS REQUIRED FOR ELIGIBLE SUBSIDIARY BODIES TO MEET VIA TELECONFERENCE IN COMPLIANCE WITH SB 707 (DURAZO) - Metro Board
To access embedded hyperlinks, please download the report PDF by clicking "Download Board Report".
https://boardagendas.metro.net/board-report/2026-0166/
about 10 hours ago
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Nick Andert
about 11 hours ago
THERE'S FINALLY A DATE!
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Joe Linton
Streetsblog L.A.
about 10 hours ago
Metro D Line subway extension will open Friday May 8! Four new miles, three new stations - first Metro rail connection to Beverly Hills.
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Metro D Line Subway Extension Will Open Friday May 8 - Streetsblog Los Angeles
Subway riders will be able to travel from Beverly Hills to Downtown L.A. in about 20 minutes
https://la.streetsblog.org/2026/02/26/metro-d-line-subway-extension-will-open-friday-may-8
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Metro Board meeting - now on World Cup 2026 shuttle bus contract item
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2026-0141 - 2026 FIFA WORLD CUP STADIUM SHUTTLES - Metro Board
To access embedded hyperlinks, please download the report PDF by clicking "Download Board Report".
https://boardagendas.metro.net/board-report/2026-0141/
about 10 hours ago
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Metro Board meeting: now on eminent domain item - for East San Fernando Valley light rail project railyard
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2025-1039 - PUBLIC HEARING ON RESOLUTION OF NECESSITY FOR EAST SAN FERNANDO VALLEY LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT PROJECT - Metro Board
To access embedded hyperlinks, please download the report PDF by clicking "Download Board Report".
https://boardagendas.metro.net/board-report/2025-1039/
about 11 hours ago
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Joe Linton
Streetsblog L.A.
about 11 hours ago
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!
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Listening in on 10am Metro Board meeting - about to get underway. Follow/watch online at
boardagendas.metro.net/event/regula...
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Regular Board Meeting - Metro Board
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https://boardagendas.metro.net/event/regular-board-meeting-278d857c9f4f/
about 11 hours ago
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Joe Linton
Streetsblog L.A.
3 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
2 days ago
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Joe Linton
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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3 days ago
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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/
3 days ago
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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
5 days ago
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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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Joe Linton
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/
7 days ago
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Metro Ops Cmte mtg: now on item 28 - monthly transit policing 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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7 days ago
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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)
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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
Back to Meetings & Agendas
https://boardagendas.metro.net/event/operations-safety-and-customer-experience-72deba267598/
7 days ago
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Joe Linton
Jonathan Eby
7 days ago
the clean up bill should make LA even denser.
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Joe Linton
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
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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/
7 days ago
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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”.
8 days ago
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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)
8 days ago
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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.
8 days ago
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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]
8 days ago
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reposted by
Joe Linton
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.
8 days ago
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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!
8 days ago
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Measure HLA lawsuit update: today’s hearing/ruling postponed until March 12
8 days ago
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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”]
9 days ago
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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/
9 days ago
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reposted by
Joe Linton
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)
11 days ago
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