A trial was filed on Wednesday against the city of Los Angeles concerning a lack of cycle paths updated along the busiest bus road in the county.
The prosecution, filed by the editor -in -chief of Streetsblog La Joseph Linton at the Superior Court of the County, seems to be the first trial brought against a measure that voters approved last year, which asks the city to implement a 2015 mobility plan. Among the requirements were new cycling paths on Avenue Vermont in the middle of in progress and planned.
Linton alleges violations of the HLA measurement in the summer of 2024 when the city repavated parts of Avenue Vermont without installing “protected cycle paths and pedestrian improvements” and a violation on the board of directors of the recent decision of the recent plans on the plans for the Vermont transit corridor to implement the buses without including new lanes.
The measure gave residents the right to continue on alleged violations.
“I hope that this trial will bring the city to the negotiating table and will cause street improvements that save lives, promote public health, cumulation emissions from the STEM climate and improve the quality of life of Vermont Avenue pedestrians, bus drivers and cyclists,” said Linton in a statement on Streets-Blog.
The pursuit does not require monetary payment beyond the recovery of legal costs.
The Metro project will add dedicated bus tracks and 26 stations at 13 locations along a section of 12.4 miles on Vermont avenue between 120th Street and Sunset Boulevard. The route sees 38,000 daily buses, according to Metro, and will particularly help disadvantaged communities that count strongly on public transport.
The project is included in the M measuring expenditure plan, which allocated $ 425 million for construction.
The plan has been at the center of the debate for months. Defenders of Streets Streets argued that it ignores the mandate of the voters while the transit agency and the city officials declared that the measure was only applied to the projects led by the City. Metro argued that the addition of cycle paths would increase the costs and the schedule of the project, which has been under study for almost a decade.
“Measuring HLA does not apply when non-city, public or private entities, put their own projects in the streets of the city”, the city of the city. Hydee Feldstein Soto wrote in a letter in November in Streets for All, the advocacy group behind the measurement of the ballot.
The city prosecutor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comments on the trial.
But quoting a partnership agreement between the city and the metro, Linton alleges that the city cannot separate from the Metro plan because it will finance parts of the project, will examine the project and participate in the authorization process.
“In the end, the city is the guarantor of HLA,” said Linton’s lawyer Mike Gatto. “The city also has a relationship with Metro – a contractual relationship based on certain provisions that the Los Angeles Municipal Council and the Metro Board both approved.”
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