Metro Pushing to Get Freeway Interchange Expansion Underway ASAP
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Metro and Caltrans are spending a half-billion dollars to widen the congested 57/60 Freeways interchange
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Proposed L.A. Metro FY22-23 Budget: More Freeway Widening, Less Transit Construction
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While the Metro FY22-23 budget figures are still in flux, the latest proposal shows a 30 percent increase in freeway expansion and a 9 percent decrease in transit expansion
Solis Motion Would Re-Re-Affirm that Metro North 710 Money Really Does Go to Multi-Modal Projects
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Hilda Solis motion reiterates that, for the N. 710 MIP (Mobility Improvement Projects), "new mobility improvement[s] are eligible as both standalone projects and as components of larger projects," specifically including "bus priority infrastructure... bikeway projects... Sidewalk improvements, [and] Pedestrian safety improvements."
Call to Action: Comment on Ashby/I-80 Widening
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Time is running out to comment on the environmental review of Alameda County and Caltran's Ashby/I-80 Interchange widening project.
Freeway News Round-Up: 710 Widening and Aesthetics, 71 and 5 Widening Snags, and Bakersfield’s Centennial Corridor
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Metro's 710 widening task force met, the 710 aesthetic plan is ridiculous, 71 and 5 Freeway widening hitting snags, and mass home demolition for a Bakersfield freeway
Assemblymember Cristina Garcia Planning Legislation to Stop Freeway Expansion in Underserved Communities
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Garcia's bill would prohibit the state from funding or permitting highway projects in areas with high rates of pollution and poverty and where residents have suffered negative health effects from living near freeways.