Good morning, it’s Thursday, March 26 and you can expect summery but not scalding heat.
Today’s edition covers the Metro K Line extension fight, the sentencing of an anti-ICE protester, a major Meta verdict and more.
The Metro Board will vote on a plan to accelerate the building of the K Line extension today.
The Metro K Line extension has been pitched as a possible skeleton key that could unlock L.A.’s mass transit future.
The extension, which would connect the station at Exposition and Crenshaw to the Hollywood Bowl, would link four Metro rail lines and 10 of the county’s busiest bus lines, and make destinations like Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the Grove accessible by train.
But nothing about mass transit in Los Angeles is ever easy. And as the board prepares to vote on the path of the project today and a proposal to accelerate its pace, community groups and advocates are accusing Metro board members and each other of illegal backroom dealing and spreading misinformation. This is Los Angeles, so the usual threads — race, class, historical injustices, private grudges and dueling futures — are all tangled into the fight.
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