I have joined the @latimes as their transportation and mobility reporter. I am really thrilled and looking to connect with transit geeks, lowrider lovers and stressed out commuters that make Southern California what it is.
Rachel Uranga
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Rachel Uranga
@racheluranga
Immigration reporter @LATimes. Reach me at rachel.uranga(@)latimes.com or DM me, also on 🦋 Frmr @Reuters @ladailynews l @LatinoJournosCA l L.A. bred
Los Angeles
Joined April 2007
- Thieves are pilfering railroad cars in a crime that harks back to the days of horseback-riding bandits, but is fueled by a host of modern realities. Images by @latfoto of the trashed tracks are telling.
- East L.A. to Santa Monica in 1 hour 9 minutes: A look inside Metro’s new Regional Connector. The E Line will now run from East LA to Santa Monica, the A Line will run from Azusa to Long Beach.
- It was 110 degrees in the San Fernando Valley last week and if you had to take a bus, chances are there was no shade. Then came the rain. Of the 12,200 bus stops served by @metrolosangeles only a quarter have shelter. (thread)
- Replying to @racheluranga.@UnionPacific has its own police force. UP ex-employees say cutbacks to the force left freight vulnerable.
- The Grand Av Arts/Bunker Hill station station on the new regional connector is the deepest on the West Coast. It’s more than 10 stories down and only accessible by a bank of elevators and stairs. It also features a pedestrian bridge.
- $8.5-billion rail line in southeast L.A. County is approved. It would serve a largely Latino, working class community where one in five don’t have a car. The first leg is set to break ground next year and be completed 10 years later. latimes.com/california/sto…
- The view from the viaduct: freeways and skyscrapers, fancy lofts and rusting warehouses, jails, art, graffiti, palm trees and homeless camps, the mountains and the sea breeze, the grit and beauty of the city in one big sweep.
- For years @metrolosangeles looked at pricing the 10, 101, 405 freeways. But agency's CEO delayed findings during 2022 local election season fearing it would become politically divisive. Now, study is set to be released by summer. Here's what we know
- Eight decades after @latimes campaigned to incarcerate Japanese Americans during the war, the news outlet said it will no longer use the word internment to describe their imprisonment. Reporter @TeresaWatanabe tells her family’s incarceration story. latimes.com/california/sto…
- Deadly Windsor Hills wreck 'is the tip of the iceberg' There have been 48 crashes at La Brea and Slauson since last year. Speed caused about a third of those collisions. And yet it hasn’t been considered the most deadly intersection in LA county. 1/
- Mayor Karen Bass announces appointment of Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky to Metro Board saying she "shares my urgency around confronting Metro’s crises of safety and homelessness head on to save lives and bring people back to LA’s transit system."
- SoCal to Vegas in two hours? Brightline West's high-speed rail comes closer to reality with $3-billion grant. It would be the first bullet train to operate in the U.S. and will connect with @Metrolink Construction set to begin next year.
- Measure HLA, an effort to create hundreds of miles of bus and bike lanes, takes commanding lead
