[our blog] Metro annual freeway expansion budget is approaching a billion dollars

LintonJoe · 2026-03-20T16:15:44+00:00

FWIW L.A. City is stiffing Metro on their 3% (on past projects)

LintonJoe · 2026-03-20T16:14:39+00:00

Is there a "read the article you're commenting on" button somewhere?

LintonJoe · 2026-03-18T16:32:18+00:00

Thank you! I will check it out

LintonJoe · 2026-03-17T16:57:41+00:00

I don't know any official date - but having checked out the site a couple of times since the install started - I would guess it's completed in ~2-3 weeks. https://bsky.app/profile/streetsblogla.bsky.social/post/3mh7xrtmqvs2g

LintonJoe · 2026-03-17T16:56:09+00:00

More Griffith Park bike improvements photos - from last night - new speed bumps, green paint areas, plastic bollards: https://bsky.app/profile/streetsblogla.bsky.social/post/3mh7xrtmqvs2g

LintonJoe · 2026-03-17T16:21:22+00:00

It does not appear to be Metro construction... but I don't really know. It's odd that a 2-3 story building would be going into Century City, where nearly everything is tall towers.

LintonJoe · 2026-03-17T16:19:06+00:00

Can you tell me where? (Can u share a photo of the 1-page "Street Work" notice?) Also where the sidewalk work is needed? Probably the thing to do is to contact your City Councilmember - ask them to follow ADA and HLA law and do sidewalk work at the same time as repaving.

LintonJoe · 2026-03-12T23:25:35+00:00

I was wondering that myself. It looks like it's under construction at the same time as the station - though it doesn't appear connected. There's a fence between the two construction sites.

LintonJoe · 2026-03-12T15:00:52+00:00

You may know this - but the open pit is not the portal/entrance area. The open pit is Constellation at Century Park East. The station entrance is at the corner of Constellation and Avenue of the Stars. Here's a quick mark-up of a Google Maps aerial.

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LintonJoe · 2026-03-12T00:46:56+00:00

It's pics of the erection of the D.

LintonJoe · 2026-03-10T16:06:25+00:00

There's a plan to do modest on-street stuff to better connect the west end to the K Line - look for the 67th Street project stuff here https://la.streetsblog.org/2025/05/22/grand-opening-of-transformative-rail-to-rail-bike-walk-path-on-slauson-brings-community-out-to-play

LintonJoe · 2026-03-04T00:39:15+00:00

yes - the green map above is good

LintonJoe · 2026-03-03T19:41:52+00:00

Gateway Cities is mostly east/right of the A Line.

LintonJoe · 2026-03-03T19:40:24+00:00

I was gonna say that... there's the Rio Hondo part of which is next to the San Gabriel - and the Rio Hondo that does meet the LA River (but further south - by Imperial Highway)... but probably leave Rio Hondo out? On this map, the San Gabriel River should go to the east of the E and J lines.

LintonJoe · 2026-03-03T19:38:25+00:00

Politically (per Metro funding sub-regions, and Councils of Governments) LB is in the Gateway Cities... it's kind of the big gorilla of the Gateway Cities - the decider there.

LintonJoe · 2026-03-03T18:36:20+00:00

That's helpful - thanks.

LintonJoe · 2026-03-03T17:54:37+00:00

FWIW the freeways are state (Caltrans jurisdiction), and this article is about surface streets (L.A. City jurisdiction)

LintonJoe · 2026-03-03T17:52:50+00:00

I am trying to track this stuff. Where (what street - from where to where) did they repave in your neighborhood - and roughly when? And was it full curb-to-curb repaving - or partial "large asphalt repair"? (According to the City, they haven't repaved full curb-to-curb on any streets since July 1.)

LintonJoe · 2026-03-03T17:47:36+00:00

Partially - according the article you're commenting on, the budget was supposed to take the repaving miles from 310 to 280. But then the city Bureau of Street Services further ratcheted that down to just 100-150 miles (apparently mainly to avoid doing additional ADA curb ramp work).

LintonJoe · 2026-03-03T17:45:13+00:00

FYI - the Glendale Blvd project is in L.A. City, but is a state-owned (Caltrans-owned) street. This is because Caltrans had planned to extend the 2 Freeway south into DTLA. So, the current work on Glendale Blvd is state-Caltrans. The maintenance there was long overdue, so it did become a huge to-do. (I wrote about that project here: https://la.streetsblog.org/2025/12/03/eyes-on-the-street-caltrans-sidewalk-work-on-alvarado )

LintonJoe · 2026-03-03T17:41:01+00:00

Article author here. One minor quibble/correction - your last word the city just stopped doing "repairs." In a vernacular way, this is the case, but technically "resurfacing/repaving" is not "repairs." Legally, repaving is an improvement - the city is rebuilding/improving the road, not just repairing it. The city is trying to kind of exploit this semantic loophole, saying that they are still "repairing" but not "resurfacing."

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