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For nearly two decades, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been seeking to widen the 710 Freeway from Long Beach to Alhambra, a notoriously congested stretch of roadway crowded with diesel trucks serving the ports.
Even as residents in surrounding communities pleaded for a better solution, even as other freeway widenings failed to solve congestion, and even as California began to judge transportation projects based on their climate and development impacts, the 710 expansion kept moving forward, like a zombie project from another era.
Until now.
On Thursday, Metro’s governing board may halt the freeway widening to focus instead on smaller projects including building bike paths, adding bus lines and providing more support for clean trucks that could ease congestion and improve air quality along the 710 corridor. The board is set to consider a motion by several members, including Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis and L.A. Mayor Eric
Are White Vaccine Chasers the Reason People of Color Aren t Getting Their COVID-19 Shots?
By Jessica Goodheart and Angelika Albaladejo
On 2/25/21 at 4:52 PM EST
Why aren t vaccines reaching the hardest-hit Los Angeles communities? Registered nurse Emily Enos attempts to extract an extra dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine outside the Los Angeles Mission on February 10, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.
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This story is co-published with Capital & Main
Veronica Sance was irate. For days, she d been monitoring the sidewalk in front of a prime South Los Angeles COVID-19 vaccination site, Kedren Community Health Center. And she did not like what she was seeing.
“I am not surprised. I'm disgusted,'' Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis said. “And I'm not disgusted at the work that we're doing, but I'm more disgusted about the behavior of people in the public that are not being responsible.''
Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Wednesday the county will expand vaccine eligibility to various essential workers in the next two to three weeks, including teachers.
LOS ANGELES — The FBI and local authorities are investigating an improvised explosive device attack at an El Monte church that had been targeted by protests because of its anti-LGBTQ