Clik here to view.
Model Street Manual: A Generic Road Map to Sustainable Transportation Planning
Its difficult to create a safe mid-block pedestrian crossing, but there is always something you can do to make aModel Street Design Manual crossing safer. All images in this story come from Over the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
California Transportation Commission: $538 Billion Needed to Maintain System
To maintain and operate it's transportation infrastructure, California needs a massive investment in the next decade. Photo Caltrans One of the things I do each year is read the California...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sen. Steinberg Proposes Carbon Tax on Gas Instead of Cap-and-Trade
Estimated effect of a carbon tax on sources of United States electrical generation Source: US Energy Information Administration via wikimedia. CA Senator Darrell Steinberg proposed a change yesterday...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Caltrans on the Hot Seat: Assembly Looks at State, Local Planning Tensions
It was the California State Assembly’s turn to review the recent State Smart Transportation Initiative (SSTI) report on Caltrans at a Transportation Committee hearing Monday. Chair Bonnie Lowenthal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Advocates Push for Bike/Ped Funding From CA’s Cap-and-Trade Funds
A coalition of bike and pedestrian advocates are inviting organizations to sign on to a letter [PDF] asking the state legislature to recommend allocating $50 million of the state’s cap-and-trade...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CA Transportation Choices Summit Tackles Policy Issues
The California Transportation Choices Summit, held in Sacramento this week, was an opportunity for sustainable transportation and public health advocates to spend the day learning about current state...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Can We Invest in Infrastructure Without Raising Taxes?
(Odysseus Bostick is a Los Angeles teacher and former candidate for the Los Angeles City Council. He writes The Bostick Report for CityWatch.) Our roads are swiss cheese, our sidewalks are like a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Metro Takes Another Step Forward in Effort to Build and Preserve Affordable...
The map of potential transit-oriented affordable housing sites (blue dots). Click to enlarge. See the original, here, on p. 24. Source: Metro In case you haven’t heard, we’re in a bit of an affordable...
View ArticleClik here to view.
At the Crossroads: In Order to Create a More Walkable L.A., Start with the...
(Max Podemski is the Planning Director of Pacoima Beauftiful…but you already knew that, right? – DN) In recent years, the media has been filled with stories about Los Angeles transformation into a more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
City Unveils First Serious Draft Plan to Address Sidewalk Repair. Public Is...
Following a legal settlement in the summer of 2014, Angelenos have been waiting on the city to finally announce its plan to bring the city’s sidewalks into compliance with the Americans with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Technologists and Transportation Professionals Meet at TransportationCamp Los...
Register now for TransportationCamp, October 3rd at UCLA 2015 is an exciting time for transportation innovation in Los Angeles. We have a rapidly-expanding frequent transit and bicycle network....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lessons From UCLA’s TransportationCamp
Joshua Schank, Metro’s new chief innovation officer, speaking at TransportationCamp at UCLA on Saturday. Photo by Joe Linton/StreetblogLA What do you get when dozens of transportation professionals,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Manuel Pastor’s Recommendations for Metro’s 2016 Ballot Measure
Professor Manuel Pastor at yesterday’s Move L.A. event. Photo: Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A. At Move L.A.’s Transportation Conversation 8 yesterday, USC professor Manuel Pastor had a list of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ACT-LA Video Makes Case For Affordable Transit-Oriented Housing
Watch the video below from L.A.’s Alliance for Community Transit (ACT-LA) exploirng issues of gentrification and displacement in South L.A. ACT-LA is a multi-nonprofit coalition working for just,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mobility Justice Advocates Gather in Leimert Park for Untokening California
“I’m at the point where I want to burn it [all down],” said a mobility advocate as Untokening California came to a close this past November 4. She had had enough of hearing her community spoken about...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Video Explains UCLA Study on Transit Ridership Decline
Note: Metropolitan Shuttle, a leader in bus shuttle rentals, regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog Los Angeles. Unless noted in the story, Metropolitan Shuttle is not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Youth Perspectives on Transportation: Free Public Transit for a More Just,...
When you wake up each morning, what do you think of first? You probably think about what you’re going to do that day. Off to school, then back home, but do you ever pause to think about how you’ll get...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Metro Report: Understanding How Women Travel
Metro recently released a report on challenges faced by its women riders, Understanding How Women Travel. It runs to 169 pages, with an executive summary alone of 17 pages. There is also a 7-page staff...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pasadena Re-Examining Key Environmental Metric – Vehicle Miles Traveled
This article supported by Los Angeles Bicycle Attorney as part of a general sponsorship package. All opinions in the article are that of the author, and do not necessarily reflect those of LABA. Click...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mayoral Candidates’ Thoughts about Metro Given Only Brief Moment to Shine in...
This past Sunday night, congressmember Karen Bass, city councilmembers Joe Buscaino and Kevin de León, City Attorney Mike Feuer, and billionaire developer Rick Caruso squared off in a debate moderated...
View Article
