This week's biggest headlines in transportation:
- Metro a step closer to receiving long-awaited transportation grants
- Transit app integrates Los Angeles Metro's on-demand service, Metro Micro
- Draft Purple Line first/last mile plan recommends new bike, pedestrian infrastructure
- Every $1 in California transportation spending equals $4.30 in gains, report finds
- APTA releases new report highlighting innovative ideas throughout public transit industry
- Halfway through 2021, LA traffic deaths are on pace to exceed last year's high toll
- CRRC unveils Los Angeles metro cars
- Transportation investment generates 700,000 jobs annually in California, report shows
- Construction begins on massive airport Metro project
- A new study says L.A. is the third worst city in the U.S. for lung health
- Metro board begins process of receiving nearly $1.5 billion through the American Rescue Plan Act
