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

L.A. Metro Pushes for More Freeway Expansion Funds

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

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

L.A. Metro Pushes for 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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Adeptfuckup

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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.

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