Ryan Deto

As they tout a posh redo of the Tom Bradley International Terminal meant to reposition LAX as a travel hub for the new millennium, Los Angeles leaders are creating a potentially hobbling obstacle for the airport. The other big mass-transit infrastructure project nearby, the "Crenshaw/LAX" Metro light rail, will stop......

For all those light-rail fanatics (especially those who live near Culver City, like this blogger) it is time to stop holding your breath and take in a big whiff of exhaust fumes. According to the Los Angeles Times, Metro's light-rail Expo Line from Downtown to Culver City has been delayed,......

Last week, L.A. Weekly reported on how Metro may have manipulated a seismic study to move the Westside Subway Extension station in Century City. That story can be viewed here. The move would result in $60 million more in publicly-subsidized Measure R funds and would require tunneling under Beverly Hills......

Update: Bus Riders Union issues statement on the release of civil rights compliance review. More after the jump. In October, L.A. Weekly reported that local civil rights groups indicted Metro for discriminatory practices. The groups hoped their report would spark the feds to intervene. Well, as it turns out, it......

Brian Hakes occupied City Hall all night on Nov. 27 in anticipation of a police raid after LAPD announced, two days earlier, an eviction deadline of 12:01 a.m. ...

Occupy L.A. stayed untouched Monday night and protesters stayed put, 30 hours past the eviction deadline. But unlike Sunday night, which had more than 2,000 occupiers present, the late Monday/early Tuesday population in front of City Hall had shrunk to around 500 people, a number which continued to slowly decrease......

Peggy Gooday sits paralyzed on her sofa as the world outside shrieks with an unearthly roar. The sound of millions of bits of lumber, metal, concrete and glass twisting and shattering echoes as downtown Los Angeles plunges into darkness. Gooday's TV is launched off its pedestal and smashes at her......

Only 10 percent of Los Angeles County Metro's ridership is white, according to a report authored by L.A. civil rights, labor, environmental, and public health organizations. To complete the very simple arithmetic, that means 90 percent is made up of everyone else in the amazingly diverse salad bowl that is......