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Transportation:
Metro this weekend is expanding its rail schedule by running trains later into the night -- mostly around 2 a.m. -- on Friday and Saturday nights.
Transportation:
It's CEO believed Los Angeles "should act like a big city," according to a transit advocate who pushed for the new service.
Transportation:
The footprint of mass transit in the city grows around Culver City and the San Fernando Valley.
Commentary:
The L.A. region faces obstacles to more rail transit. Rights-of-way are few and some have angry neighbors.
Commentary:
The greening of the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will help to sustain one of the region's last big industries.
Transportation:
The city of Los Angeles will hold an international design competition for a redesign of the 6th Street Bridge.
Commentary:
Transit and in-fill development contend with conflicting values, technical limitations, and costs.
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Commentary:
Those bright green bike lanes meant to increase safety for cyclists on downtown's Spring Street are a bright red flag for the film industry, which uses it as "Any City, USA."
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Green should mean good for cyclists. Hollywood disagrees.
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Annual roundups have a common theme - it's always "the worst of times and the best of times." And that certainly is true of downtown at the end of 2011 and the start of 2012:...
Transportation:
Los Angeles Department of Transportation officials have joined numerous other local transit agencies in sharing data with Google.
Transportation:
Councilmember José Huizar and Jan Perry led a Monday afternoon dedication for a set of 6-foot wide bike lanes, with 4-foot buffer zone, that use vivid green to enhance safety between riders and motorists.
Transportation:
The day after, however, parking officers will be applying the full force of the law.
Commentary:
The cost is obligating 27 years worth of Measure R funding to a crash program that will be over in two years or less.
Transportation:
It's been more than two months since the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to ditch the city's widely unpopular -- and admittedly costly -- red light camera program.
Commentary:
Crumbling sidewalks are diagnostic of a city in trouble.
Public Health:
A proposed grant from the city of Los Angeles could be a boon for CicLAvia, the special event that closes down miles of streets, effectively turning them into temporary parks for a day.
Transportation:
Metro officials will lock turnstiles for the first time in a demonstration project at the Purple Line's Wilshire and Normandie Station in Koreatown
Transportation:
The Los Angeles Department of Transportation announced this month that it will be implementing a green bike lane project in Los Angeles to help motorists avoid bicyclists and increase safety.
Commentary:
Is the project worthwhile? At $1.5 billion, the price tag for the second phase of the project is nothing to sneeze at.
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