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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 06/08/2026

The last two trains don’t go to Pomona. They stop at APU/Citrus College. I don’t know how often I would run it, but it sucks that an incident in South LA affects trains across the entire line.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 14/07/2026

Oh wow you're right! Ok then, while my point regarding its loudness still stands, I wonder what it's there for. Also noticed it has more fans installed now versus 2012.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 14/07/2026

Many point to the parcel of land southwest of the station. It's pretty big and you could increase real estate by knocking out Flower, but in addition to this steep grade, also on this parcel of land is the regional connector's ventilation shaft, visible in this image by Hope St.

Grand Av Arts/Bunker Hill station and the empty lot next to it home to a ventilation shaft.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 14/07/2026

First of all, yeah. Sucks that it's wedged between three roads. The connector bridge helps get you to Grand Ave. Second, there IS a fair amount of housing within 1000 feet of the station, but unlike a lot of transit stations surrounded by 5-over-1s, the Bunker Hill housing is much more vertical.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 14/07/2026

Now that I can call Grand Av Arts/Bunker Hill my home Metro station, I feel I can speak better about the many Reddit posts and that one video from lej_explains about the TOD around the station.

Grand Av Arts/Bunker Hill station on 2nd, Hope, and Kosciuszko.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 01/06/2026

Metro's proposal for Historic Broadway bus lanes vs. my own.

Metro proposes removing outdoor dining to add bus lanes to Broadway.

I propose removing car traffic, adding bus lanes and bike lanes, and expanding the dining section of Historic Broadway.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 30/05/2026

I could make a scrapbook of photos of people parking in the La Brea bus lanes during designated bus only hours. And no, these weren’t a few minutes past 4 PM. These were deep into peak hours.

Several cars parking in the bus only lane.

One car parking in the bus only lane. Notably, the rest of the road is bumper-to-bumper traffic.

Even more cars parked in the bus only lane.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 03/04/2026

SkyLink announcements somewhat audible from just outside the station.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 28/03/2026

ITF West curbs moving along. The connecting roadway appears to be getting a traffic light installed and might even connect to Airport Boulevard?

ITF West curbside TNC pick up and drop off zones looking east.

ITF West curbside TNC pick up and drop off zones looking northeast.

Entrance to the ITF West TNC lot. Signs overhead directing traffic to Sepulveda Boulevard on the left and to all freeways on the right.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 12/03/2026

LAX Rental Car Center (ConRAC) officially opened today.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 26/02/2026

Between the car rental companies and the LAX employee parking, which will take over the top floor of the ConRAC, this will free up a lot of land around LAX that I hope gets turned into something better than a parking lot.

Diagram of car rental lots and parking lots that will be moving into the consolidated facility at Los Angeles International Airport

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 26/02/2026

LAWA approved a motion at their last meeting to begin moving the remaining car rental companies into the ConRAC by mid March. Currently only the Avis family of companies (Avis, Budget, Payless, Zipcar) are in there.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 16/02/2026

New SkyLink sign peeking through the closed entrance at LAX/Metro Transit Center.

Looking up a closed staircase at the LAX Skylink sign featuring directions for the rental car center, all terminals, and economy parking.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 15/02/2026

It’s good to know LAX’s SkyLink will be using the LA Metro logo in its signage. I honestly expected them not to do that.

Skylink signage at Station E directing people upstairs to economy parking, the Rental car center, Metro, and all terminals.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 08/02/2026

in case you ever wondered what happened to the LAX City Bus Center, it's a coach bus staging area now.

Looking down at the former LAX City Bus Center, now a holding zone for coach buses at LAX.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 08/02/2026

Also, Maintenance Drive, the LAWA owned road that runs north-south between Metro's and SkyLink's maintenance yards, has opened to traffic.

Two signs on a street pole.

SIGN 1:
MAINTENANCE DR
PRIVATE STREET NOT
DEDICATED FOR PUBLIC USE
OR MAINTAINED BY CITY OF L.A
(L.A.M.G. 18.07)

SIGN 2:
NO STOPPING
ANY TIME
TO RECOVER IMPOUND VEHICLES CALL 3-1-1

Street sign that says "Maintenance Dr" and indicator it is private.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 08/02/2026

As SkyLink remains delayed, let's see how the ITF West curbs are doing. Shelters and landscaping going in. Clearly still a work in progress. I'd say they'll be ready sometime in April.

ITF West curbs at the LAX Economy Parking / Ground Transportation Center near SkyLink station E. Looking east along the APM guideway.

ITF West curbs at the LAX Economy Parking / Ground Transportation Center near SkyLink station E. Looking northwest towards Westchester Parkway.

ITF West curbs at the LAX Economy Parking / Ground Transportation Center near SkyLink station E. Looking slightly north towards the APM maintenance facility.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 07/02/2026

Whatever happened to that plot of land they eminent domained for Link US? Well it got paved over.

A whole ton of asphalt where a storage facility used to be.

A sign on the fence surrounding the asphalt that indicates LA Metro owns the property.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 01/02/2026

Checking out the ITF East curbs near LAX/MTC. Some signs have been put up to direct traffic through the private vehicle drop off.

Curbside drop off at the ITF East, next to LAX SkyLink station F at the LAX/Metro Transit Center.

A sign on the right shows pick up zone B, pick up zone A, and the drop off. A sign on the left shows pick up zone A bays 1-7 and the cell phone lot.

The ITF East curbs for private vehicles. An overhead sign indicates where to go for pick up zone B, pick up zone A, the drop off and exit, and the cell phone waiting a lot. The LAX Rental Car Center and Skylink Station G are in the background.

A sign near the exit at the private vehicle pick up/drop off at ITF East. It directs people to the Skylink pickup/dropoff and the cell phone waiting lot.

Overhead sign at the ITF East curbs for private vehicles. The sign on the left directs motorists to the pick up and drop off cell phone waiting a lot and the exit to Concourse Way. On the right is an exit sign to Aviation Boulevard.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 30/01/2026

The city of LA is closing the u turn lane on 4th St and 4th Pl in the Arts District across from Hewitt Street.

Construction on the 4th Street/4th place U-turn lane which will be closed to traffic completely.

Aerial view of 4th place and 4th Street in Los Angeles

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 18/01/2026

At Merrick and 4th. The slip lane that used to be here was closed and turned into an extended concrete corner sidewalk.

Southern California Institute of Architecture art piece.

From the concrete sidewalk corner looking south towards 4th Street. Merrick on the right and towards the South.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 17/01/2026

I'd love to know why Caltrans still controls Hawthorne after being authorized by the state to turn it over to Torrance all the way back in 2009. The Redondo Beach leg was also authorized for relinquishment in 2023. This would effectively delete SR 107 if and when Caltrans finally turns them over.

California Streets and Highways Code section 407, 407.5 and 407.6

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 11/12/2025

Anyone know why the Civic Center/Grand Park fare gates have been open for at least a week now?

Tall fare gates at the Civic Center B line station.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 11/12/2025

Update: The old turnstiles are coming out. The gates are on but not operational.

Westlake/MacArthur Park north concourse.

New taller faregates. Turned on but open.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 09/12/2025

Taken today at the corner of 3rd and Main. The fenced off public space, which Kevin de Leon once coined “fentanyl corner,“ appears to have been relandscaped.

Concrete street corner featuring a few trees and shrubs that were recently planted. On 3rd Street and Main Street in downtown Los Angeles.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 05/12/2025

I never bothered to look up at Westlake/MacArthur Park station. Didn’t know there was art hanging above me!

Art installation at Westlake/MacArthur Park Station on the LA Metro system.

More: https://art.metro.net/location/b-line/westlake-macarthur-park-station-b-line-red/

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 02/12/2025

It’s now been a month and these gates are in the same state as they were back then.

Westlake/MacArthur Park station tall fare gates. Still inoperative. Photo: December 1, 2025.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 30/11/2025

It’s depressing to see how much Westlake/MacArthur Park has fallen off. In 2025 the station looks like a prison.

The north entrance of Westlake/MacArthur Park Station now permanently closed.

Google Street view of Westlake/MacArthur Park Station from August 2025. The public space and parking has been fenced off and an additional fence has been placed along the sidewalk to prevent vendors.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 30/11/2025

I wish I was in Los Angeles during the early days of the Red Line just to see the differences in station architecture. I did visit during the 1999 Rose Parade, but wasn't cognizant enough to realize what I was looking at.

Screenshot of LA Metro's Westlake/Mac Arthur Park station from the 1997 movie Volcano.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 26/11/2025

Civic Center/Grand Park gates are now active without emergency swing gates.

New taller fare gates at LA Metro civic Center/Grand Park Station. Temple St exit.

New taller fare gates at LA Metro civic Center/Grand Park Station. 1st St exit.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 24/11/2025

The art piece on the glass at the little Tokyo/Arts District station has been restored. Some of the glass was broken during the ICE raids over the summer.

Clare Rojas’s “Harmony” at the Little Tokyo/Arts District Station on the Los Angeles Metro rail system.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 21/11/2025

That’s the wrong Throne app you are linking to, which is this one:

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 21/11/2025

I will say for Wilshire/Vermont being the station with the most ESG violations, that tracks due to the main entrance not being ADA accessible, so a lot of people are bringing their wheels only to find out they can’t even use the standard gates as they are too small, as I demonstrate here.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 20/11/2025

Apparently LAFD got a demonstration. Stole this from Reddit.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 15/11/2025

New gates at Civic Center/Grand Park. The second station I’ve seen to remove the old steel emergency exit doors.

Taller fare gates at the LA Metro Civic Center/Grand Park station.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 12/11/2025

Last year’s was better. I posted it and several of my trans friends wanted me to go get one for them.

Tap cards for transgender awareness 2024. If features a butterfly with the trans flag colors.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 07/11/2025

Civic Center/Grand Park gates at 1st Street entrance gone.

Southern entrance of Civic Center/Grand Park station on the Los Angeles Metro B line. The turnstiles and the emergency exits are gone.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 01/11/2025

New gates at Westlake/MacArthur Park which, to my surprise, are eliminating the steel emergency exit door.

A row of tall paddle fare gates at the Westlake/MacArthur Park station in Los Angeles

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 30/10/2025

What I'd like to know about this project is whether or not it's part of the conditions for the state to turn over these portions of SR 2 to the city, as it is legally authorized to. dot.ca.gov/caltrans-nea...

Map of project including bike lanes on Santa Monica Blvd and Alvarado Street in Los Angeles.

(c) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the commission may relinquish to the City of Los Angeles the conventional highway portion of Route 2 that is located within the city limits of that city, upon terms and conditions the commission finds to be in the best interests of the state, including, but not limited to, a condition that the City of Los Angeles maintain within its jurisdiction signs directing motorists to the continuation of Route 2.
(2) A relinquishment under this subdivision shall become effective immediately following the recording by the county recorder of the relinquishment resolution containing the commission’s approval of the terms and conditions of the relinquishment.

(3) On and after the effective date of the relinquishment, both of the following shall occur:

(A) The portion of Route 2 relinquished under this subdivision shall cease to be a state highway.

(B) The portion of Route 2 relinquished under this subdivision may not be considered for future adoption under Section 81.

(4) For the portions of Route 2 that are relinquished, the City of Los Angeles shall maintain within its jurisdiction signs directing motorists to the continuation of Route 2.

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Corey Barnes 🚴🏻‍♀️🚊 (they/them) @side.coreymbarnes.com · 29/10/2025

The new tracks at Division 20 near Union Station now have trains parked on them

Metro heavy rail subway trains at the new division 20 yard in Los Angeles.

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