Clean Air, Clean Lungs, Clean Buses Campaign

Bus Riders Union and broad coalition achieve major breakthrough as Wilshire Boulevard BOL Project passes LA City Council

06/15/2011

After six years of campaigning, the Wilshire Boulevard Bus-Only Lanes project took an important step forward, with the Los Angeles City Council voting to approve the project and move it forward.

BRU and broad coalition of allies win major breakthrough on Wilshire Bus Lanes at Los Angeles City Council

After six years of campaigning, the BRU scored a major environmental victory today: the Wilshire Boulevard Bus-Only Lanes won the resounding approval from the LA City Council and cleared the last major political hurdle for it to become reality

LA Times, KPCC, ABC, NBC & more: BRU victory on Wilshire bus lanes makes a media splash

After six years of campaigning, the Wilshire Boulevard Bus-Only Lanes
project took an important step forward, with the Los Angeles City
Council voting to approve the project and move it forward.

L.A. Council OKs bus-only lanes along Wilshire Boulevard


Wilshire Boulevard, the most heavily used bus corridor in Los Angeles
with lines running every couple of minutes and tens of thousands of
passengers enduring lengthy and crowded rides, is about to get a
facelift designed to bring riders some relief.

To streamline and speed commutes from MacArthur Park to Centinela Avenue
at the eastern edge of Santa Monica, the Los Angeles City Council voted

Open Letter to MTA Board & LA City Council: Planners support complete 8.7 mile Wilshire Bus Rapid Transit Project

Planners from UCLA, USC and across the city weigh in on Bus-Only Lanes debate with a clear message: the complete 8.7 mile project is clearly the best choice.

Clean Air youth reflects on his experiences at Power Shift 2011

For me as a youth of color, Power Shift 2011 was an inspiring and
effective space for two major reasons: it gave me a chance to really
start to build with youth from other grassroots organizations, and it
allowed me to gain insight into the Environmental Justice movement as a
whole.

A strange day at City Council ends in a stalemate for the Wilshire BOL

With the battle lines drawn, the 5-member committee could not agree on any option and ended the meeting taking no action at all.

Call to Action: Wilshire Bus-Only Lanes at City Council Tomorrow!

We need a strong showing from the broad coalition we have built for this project to come out tomorrow, Wednesday, June 8th at 2PM at the City Council Room 1010.