Wednesday, August 12

In the news:

Metro, other transit services to offer free transportation on state election day

Anyone in Los Angeles can use public transportation for free on election day. LA Metro is offering free rides on its bus and rail network for all of March 3, according to a Metro press release. Read more...

Photo: Los Angeles Metro and other transit agencies will offer free service on election day, March 3. Locals can use public transit to reach three voting centers in Westwood, including Ackerman Union at UCLA, the Hammer Museum in Westwood Village and Warner Avenue Elementary School on Holmby Avenue. (James Schaap/Daily Bruin)


Homeless population displaced as sweeps of Westwood Park resume under new leadership

Park rangers resumed sweeps of Westwood Park after a pause in cleanups led to an increase in homeless encampments over the last two months. Following the death of Albert Torres, the former senior park ranger, park cleanups lulled. Read more...

Photo: Visitors to Westwood Park, located about a mile south of campus, saw an increase in homeless encampments over the last two months. Some community members called the camps unsafe while others criticized sweeps by park rangers. (Sofia Gonzalez/Daily Bruin)



NWWNC proposes plan to get rid of required parking minimums in North Village

A local neighborhood council committee is calling for the removal of required parking minimums from North Westwood Village zoning regulations. Parking minimums are requirements for a certain number of parking spaces based on the number of residents or guests expected by the developer. Read more...

Photo: North Village parking requirements for buildings may be done away with if a committee on the North Westwood Neighborhood Council has its way. The transportation and public safety committee is calling on the council board to recommend the parking requirements’ removal to Los Angeles City Council. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Westwood Village Farmers’ Market hosts a wide variety of vendors

One block away from UCLA, one day a week, vendors line up under shaded booths on Broxton Avenue to sell everything from salmon to skin care products. Read more...

Photo: Cori Jacobs is a grammy-nominated composer and keyboardist who has worked with big names such as the Pussycat Dolls and Beyonce. He left a job at a Fortune-500 company for music on the advice of his mentor, a spoken-word poet. (Sofia Gonzalez/Daily Bruin)


Westwood-Downtown LA subway megaproject receives over $1B in funding

Over $1 billion in federal funding will finance the last section of a subway line extension to Westwood. The United States Department of Transportation granted $1.3 billion on Tuesday for Section 3 of the Purple Line extension, a subway line that will connect Westwood to Downtown Los Angeles by 2027. Read more...

Photo: A planned subway extension connecting Westwood to Downtown Los Angeles received a $1.3 billion federal grant on Tuesday. The funding will help Metro complete the project by 2027.(Daily Bruin file photo)


Former sports bar Sepi’s is demolished, to be replaced with medical offices

This post was updated Feb. 17 at 3:18 p.m.  Developers demolished the former location of popular sports bar, Sepi’s, to make way for medical office space. Read more...

Photo: A vacant lot on the intersection of Gayley Avenue and Le Conte Avenue is closed off for the construction of a planned four-story medical building. The new building also replaces the former location of Sepi’s, which closed in April 2019. (Martín Bilbao/Daily Bruin senior staff)



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