Now that our City Council has reformed the old zoning ordinance into a new, more opaque document, it is moving on to the adoption of a specific plan for our downtown. Let's hope that the new Downtown ...

As you read this, our train has arrived. After years of anticipation (and some dread), the Expo Line of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has reached close enough to the ...

The wait is (almost) over. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (he’s chair of the Metro Transportation Authority) today announced the Expo Line will open to the public on April 28. On that date, riders can ...

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The newly completed Expo Line rolled through its first full business day Monday with the seven new stations generating 12,000 trips, according to Metropolitan Transportation Authority data. Despite a ...

A judge gave a go-ahead today to the second phase of the Expo Line, ruling against neighbors who have argued the project will snarl traffic on surface streets. In a tentative ruling, Judge Thomas ...

was on hand at the 7th/Metro Center station to greet Expo and Blue Line passengers, promote the new line and hand out commemorative pins.

Road diets are all the rage lately, particularly on the westside of Los Angeles. That’s the slimming of roads by eliminating lanes. Recently the L.A. City Council took lanes away from commuters along ...

If you regularly drive through Culver City, West Los Angeles and Santa Monica, you’ve probably seen all of the construction happening for what’s formally known as the Exposition Transit Corridor, ...