Joe Linton
@lintonjoe.bsky.social
Editor at Streetsblog Los Angeles
One other small moment of irony in today’s #MeasureHLA hearing. The city had the audacity to use a photo I took (published at Streetsblog) *uncredited* - in its slide presentation against my HLA appeals. Left: Streetsblog. Right: LADOT slide today.
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
One other small moment of irony in today’s #MeasureHLA hearing. The city had the audacity to use a photo I took (published at Streetsblog) *uncredited* - in its slide presentation against my HLA appeals. Left: Streetsblog. Right: LADOT slide today.
At Board of Public Works - looks like Measure HLA items 4-9 will start around 1040am. Follow on Zoom or audio on YouTube dpwlacity.primegov.com/Portal/Meeti...
Meeting
dpwlacity.primegov.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
At Board of Public Works - looks like Measure HLA items 4-9 will start around 1040am. Follow on Zoom or audio on YouTube dpwlacity.primegov.com/Portal/Meeti...
This morning LAFD is out (with others) inspecting Civic Center fare gates
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This morning LAFD is out (with others) inspecting Civic Center fare gates
First ever #MeasureHLA appeals to be decided by LA City Board of Public Works today at 10am at City Hall - please attend! labikas.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/f...
First HLA Board of Public Works Appeals to be Heard on Monday November 24
Hollywood Boulevard parking-protected bike lanes It’s official: the L.A. City Board of Public Works will hear its first Measure HLA appeal in ten days. At its 10am meeting on November 24 the …
labikas.wordpress.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
First ever #MeasureHLA appeals to be decided by LA City Board of Public Works today at 10am at City Hall - please attend! labikas.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/f...
CicLAvia Melrose now!!
November 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
CicLAvia Melrose now!!
Please show up this Monday 11/24 at 10am at City Hall for first ever Board of Public Works decisions on #MeasureHLA appeals! (Six appeals submitted by me.) labikas.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/f...
First HLA Board of Public Works Appeals to be Heard on Monday November 24
Hollywood Boulevard parking-protected bike lanes It’s official: the L.A. City Board of Public Works will hear its first Measure HLA appeal in ten days. At its 10am meeting on November 24 the …
labikas.wordpress.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Please show up this Monday 11/24 at 10am at City Hall for first ever Board of Public Works decisions on #MeasureHLA appeals! (Six appeals submitted by me.) labikas.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/f...
Metro gussied up Union Station for the holidays. I like the Line-letter wrapping paper design (first photo)
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Metro gussied up Union Station for the holidays. I like the Line-letter wrapping paper design (first photo)
Reposted by Joe Linton
Metro November 2025 Board Committee Round-Up: Gondola, Valley Light Rail, Open Streets, and More - la.streetsblog.org/2025/11/21/m...
Metro November 2025 Board Committee Round-Up: Gondola, Valley Light Rail, Open Streets, and More - Streetsblog Los Angeles
More open streets funding (maybe), East San Fernando Valley rail, battery-electric buses, and second time around gondola approval
la.streetsblog.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Metro November 2025 Board Committee Round-Up: Gondola, Valley Light Rail, Open Streets, and More - la.streetsblog.org/2025/11/21/m...
Reposted by Joe Linton
Last week, LA's council voted 12-1 to formally oppose the gondola EIR
Today, LA's mayor voted in her capacity as Metro board member to approve the gondola EIR
Today, LA's mayor voted in her capacity as Metro board member to approve the gondola EIR
Metro Committee votes 4-1 to approve gondola project EIR. Bass, Dutra, Solis, Barger support. Janice Hahn opposed. Final approval decision now goes to full board meeting on December 4.
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Last week, LA's council voted 12-1 to formally oppose the gondola EIR
Today, LA's mayor voted in her capacity as Metro board member to approve the gondola EIR
Today, LA's mayor voted in her capacity as Metro board member to approve the gondola EIR
Metro Ops Cmte mtg: now on transit policing update, where policing staff always point out positive trends in noisy data. Many types of crime down from September to October. boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...
2025-0891 - INFORMATIONAL REPORT - Metro Board
Item #18 - "Feasibility Study of Water Taxi Service Between San Pedro and Long Beach" has been withdrawn from the Executive Management Committee Meeting but will remain on the Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee Meeting.
boardagendas.metro.net
November 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Metro Ops Cmte mtg: now on transit policing update, where policing staff always point out positive trends in noisy data. Many types of crime down from September to October. boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...
Metro Operations Cmte mtg: now on quarterly electric bus report boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...
2025-0824 - ZERO EMISSION BUS (ZEB) PROGRAM UPDATE - Metro Board
Item #18 - "Feasibility Study of Water Taxi Service Between San Pedro and Long Beach" has been withdrawn from the Executive Management Committee Meeting but will remain on the Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee Meeting.
boardagendas.metro.net
November 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Metro Operations Cmte mtg: now on quarterly electric bus report boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...
Metro Operations Committee - now on Chief Operations Officer report - slide presentation metro.legistar1.com/metro/attach...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Metro Operations Committee - now on Chief Operations Officer report - slide presentation metro.legistar1.com/metro/attach...
Metro Operations Cmte mtg: now on Water Taxi feasibility study for San Pedro to Long Beach - to support Olympics. boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...
2025-0921 - FEASIBILITY STUDY OF WATER TAXI SERVICE BETWEEN SAN PEDRO AND LONG BEACH - Metro Board
Item #18 - "Feasibility Study of Water Taxi Service Between San Pedro and Long Beach" has been withdrawn from the Executive Management Committee Meeting but will remain on the Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee Meeting.
boardagendas.metro.net
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Metro Operations Cmte mtg: now on Water Taxi feasibility study for San Pedro to Long Beach - to support Olympics. boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...
Listening in on the 1pm Metro Operations Committee meeting - just underway. Follow online at boardagendas.metro.net/event/operat...
Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee - Metro Board
Item #18 - "Feasibility Study of Water Taxi Service Between San Pedro and Long Beach" has been withdrawn from the Executive Management Committee Meeting but will remain on the Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee Meeting.
boardagendas.metro.net
November 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Listening in on the 1pm Metro Operations Committee meeting - just underway. Follow online at boardagendas.metro.net/event/operat...
The agenda is out for Board of Public Works meeting next Monday, which will decide first ever #MeasureHLA appeals (a half-dozen, all from me). Meeting is Monday 11/24 at 10am at 3rd Floor Public Works Meeting Room at City Hall. Please attend! ens.lacity.org/bpw/agendas/...
ens.lacity.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The agenda is out for Board of Public Works meeting next Monday, which will decide first ever #MeasureHLA appeals (a half-dozen, all from me). Meeting is Monday 11/24 at 10am at 3rd Floor Public Works Meeting Room at City Hall. Please attend! ens.lacity.org/bpw/agendas/...
Metro Exec Mgmt Cmte: now on Stadium Gondola item "LAART" - basically re-approving project EIR. Staff report: boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...
2025-0953 - LOS ANGELES AERIAL RAPID TRANSIT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT - Metro Board
Item #18 - "Feasibility Study of Water Taxi Service Between San Pedro and Long Beach" has been withdrawn from the Executive Management Committee Meeting but will remain on the Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee Meeting.
boardagendas.metro.net
November 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Metro Exec Mgmt Cmte: now on Stadium Gondola item "LAART" - basically re-approving project EIR. Staff report: boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...
Listening in on 11am Metro Board Executive Management Committee meeting - follow online at boardagendas.metro.net/event/execut...
Executive Management Committee - Metro Board
Item #18 - "Feasibility Study of Water Taxi Service Between San Pedro and Long Beach" has been withdrawn from the Executive Management Committee Meeting but will remain on the Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee Meeting.
boardagendas.metro.net
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Listening in on 11am Metro Board Executive Management Committee meeting - follow online at boardagendas.metro.net/event/execut...
Sad moving obituary for indefatigable uncompromising river/creek champion Melanie Winter - whom I collaborated with over three decades (tho mostly in late 90s & 00s) www.torched.la/a-force-of-n... thx @awalkerinla.bsky.social
A force of nature
When institutions threw up constraints, Melanie Winter's tenacity surged — just like the river she championed
www.torched.la
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Sad moving obituary for indefatigable uncompromising river/creek champion Melanie Winter - whom I collaborated with over three decades (tho mostly in late 90s & 00s) www.torched.la/a-force-of-n... thx @awalkerinla.bsky.social
Second tranche of Board of Public Works #MeasureHLA appeals to heard on Monday December 1. This includes four more appeals all submitted by me (it's sort of my hobby to submit appeals on dozens of locations where the city decided not to follow HLA)
November 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Second tranche of Board of Public Works #MeasureHLA appeals to heard on Monday December 1. This includes four more appeals all submitted by me (it's sort of my hobby to submit appeals on dozens of locations where the city decided not to follow HLA)
Reposted by Joe Linton
It's our friend @carterlavin.bsky.social on #TheBrake, SBUSA's podcast. Check it out!
On this episode of The Brake, we're joined by Carter Lavin’s to discuss his new book, "If You Want to Win, You’ve Got To Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy," which host Kea Wilson called, “The book the transportation reform movement has been waiting for."
This Author Wrote the Book on How to Be a Better Transportation Advocate — Streetsblog USA
Step one: read this book.
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It's our friend @carterlavin.bsky.social on #TheBrake, SBUSA's podcast. Check it out!
Reposted by Joe Linton
A silly outtake video today. SBLA will return to serious somber urbanism vids next weeeeeek!
November 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
A silly outtake video today. SBLA will return to serious somber urbanism vids next weeeeeek!
Metro Construction Committee meeting: now on electric bus charging infrastructure item boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...
2025-0602 - ZERO EMISSION BUS CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT FOR DIVISION 18 AND DIVISION 7 - Metro Board
Item #18 - "Feasibility Study of Water Taxi Service Between San Pedro and Long Beach" has been withdrawn from the Executive Management Committee Meeting but will remain on the Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee Meeting.
boardagendas.metro.net
November 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Metro Construction Committee meeting: now on electric bus charging infrastructure item boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...
Listening in on 1pm Metro Construction Committee - underway now. Follow online at boardagendas.metro.net/event/constr...
Construction Committee - Metro Board
Item #18 - "Feasibility Study of Water Taxi Service Between San Pedro and Long Beach" has been withdrawn from the Executive Management Committee Meeting but will remain on the Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee Meeting.
boardagendas.metro.net
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Listening in on 1pm Metro Construction Committee - underway now. Follow online at boardagendas.metro.net/event/constr...
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Pomona moving ahead with plans for Arrow Highway protected bikeway - plan to finish ahead of 2028 Olympics la.streetsblog.org/2025/11/19/p...
Pomona North Metro Station to get Protected Bike Connection - Streetsblog Los Angeles
The two-way cycle track will run a little under two miles, and also link with bike facilities in Claremont.
la.streetsblog.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Pomona moving ahead with plans for Arrow Highway protected bikeway - plan to finish ahead of 2028 Olympics la.streetsblog.org/2025/11/19/p...
Reposted by Joe Linton
Note that Metro pleads poverty in not funding open streets but has money for much more costly freeway widening through wetlands
Consent calendar approved by Planning Committee - just item 5 - money for widening the 91 Freeway - including some kind of wetlands destruction mitigation. Horvath votes no. boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...
2025-0842 - WESTBOUND STATE ROUTE 91 - ALONDRA TO SHOEMAKER IMPROVEMENT PROJECT - Metro Board
Item #18 - "Feasibility Study of Water Taxi Service Between San Pedro and Long Beach" has been withdrawn from the Executive Management Committee Meeting but will remain on the Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee Meeting.
boardagendas.metro.net
November 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Note that Metro pleads poverty in not funding open streets but has money for much more costly freeway widening through wetlands