Metro has plans to expand freeways including the 5, 105, and 405, among others.
The Los Angeles Metro expects to spend $887.1 million on freeway expansion projects in the next fiscal year, reports Joe Linton for Streetsblog LA.
According to Linton, “This section of the budget does include $46 million for bus improvements, but that's an unrepresentative fig leaf Metro likes to lead with for this program.”
As Linton points out, Metro itself reported that freeway projects induce more driving and increase tailpipe emissions. “Metro needs to understand and acknowledge its ongoing investments - billions of dollars - toward making driving more viable and more effective.”
For Linton, “if Metro wants to take climate, equity, and mobility seriously, it needs to align its budget with these values” and scale back its freeway expansion budget.
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