L.A. Metro Shifts Funds for Transit to Expand Highway Lanes

https://www.planetizen.com/news/2023/06/123989-la-metro-pushes-more-freeway-expansion-funds

It should surprise no bros that Southern California still wants to add one more lane to fix traffic.

After the last expansion project, traffic on I-405 only got worse. Metro wants to try again.

Under the proposal, Metro will “add and shift Measure R (Metro 2008 countywide sales tax) Multimodal Highway Subregional Program funds to various projects, mostly freeway lanes/ramps expansion and arterial streets/intersections expansion,

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swope@kbin.social · 24 pts · 3y

Linton notes that the agencies purposely divided the 405 expansion into segments under one mile to qualify as ‘auxiliary lanes’ that are not subject to a full environmental review.

skellener@kbin.social · 18 pts · 3y

FUCK YOU METRO FUCK YOU METRO FUCK YOU METRO FUCK YOU METRO

VanillaGorilla@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y

Just one more lane, I swear this will fix the issue once and for all!

skellener@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y

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Adeptfuckup@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Wow. Just.. wow. The amount of cronyism and nepotism involved in making this very poor decision must be incalculable. Our political leaders should be required to use public transit as long as they collect paychecks from the taxpayers that seem to loathe so much.