Joe Linton
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Joe Linton is editor of Los Angeles Streetsblog. He is also a longtime urban environmental activist. His main areas of interest have been restoring the Los Angeles River and fostering bicycling for everyday transportation. He’s worked for many Los Angeles livability non-profits, including Friends of the L.A. River, Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, C.I.C.L.E., Livable Places, and CicLAvia. He also served as deputy to Los Angeles City Councilmember Ed Reyes.
Culver Beats Santa Monica, CityBus Launching Automated Bus Lane Enforcement
After a succesful pilot program in 2023, Santa Monica began working on a permanent program for cracking down on illegal car parking in bus...
Streetsblog Checks Out the Santa Monica Bergamot Station First/Last Mile Construction
It is very much still a construction site, but there's a lot of progress visible on Santa Monica's new first/last mile connections to the Metro...
New Report Quantifies Five Years of Caltrans Freeway Expansion, including Demolitions
In 2023, the state legislature approved Senator Lena Gonzalez' S.B. 695 which mandated Caltrans share project data publicly. One result of the new legislation is a...
Metro Updates: Ridership Keeps Growing, Construction, and More
This story also appears at Streetsblog Los Angeles.Many Streetsblog readers and Metro riders already know this story: Metro ridership keeps on growing steadily. Recently...
Trump Policies and Interruptions Put Transit Infrastructure Projects at Risk
Gesturing toward the nearly completed Wilshire/La Brea Metro station, U.S. Representative Laura Friedman warned "The Trump Administration proposed cuts to federal investments to support...
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