SCIG Shouldn’t Move Forward Without True Mitigation (Daily News) Keeping Parking Minimus Down Lead to Lower Costs for Downtown Real Estate (Curbed) Culver City Chamber of Commerce President Recants His Stupid Anti-Bike Letter (Patch) Don’t Blame the Car Industry for the Death of the Red Cars (KCET) Op/Ed by Matute: SM Needs Smarter Parking to Address Traffic (Patch) Dodger Stadium Express Ridership [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/04/04/todays-headlines-1209/
Last August, the Reason Foundation released a report by Wendell Cox and Adrian Moore critiquing the privately funded XpressWest’s (Xpress) application for a federal loan needed to begin construction. At the time, Streetsblog was still so busy laughing at Reason’s attempts to discredit the Expo Line based on two dudes riding the car its first week of [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/03/18/unreasonable-cap-hill-republicans-use-flawed-report-to-hit-westernxpress/
The long process of reconfirming Ara Najarian to the Metro Board of Directors has come to an end with the Glendale City Councilman still standing. Flying in the face of tradition, a group of cities that support the 710 Big Dig Project, allegedly at the direction of Supervisor Mike Antonovich, attempted to squash Najarian’s nomination [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/03/08/its-official-metro-will-have-ara-najarian-to-kick-around-for-awhile/
Last week, a mini-furor was passed around by opponents of the 710 Big Dig project. The Pasadena Independent reported that the City of Rosemead is using a portion of the over $500,000 it receives annually in Measure R Local Return funds to pay its membership dues in the 710 Coalition. From the Independent: Paid for with [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/02/28/measure-r-funds-to-join-the-710-coalition-metro-says-its-fine/
California Air Resources Board meets in Downtown Los Angeles. Photo: Ryan Wiggins When California created a “cap and trade” system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions statewide, it was widely agreed the funds raised would be spent on programs that reduce these emissions in their own right. With nearly 40% of the state’s greenhouse gas coming from [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/02/28/transform-move-l-a-demand-that-cap-and-trade-funds-go-for-cleaner-transportation/
Wow, big days on Wednesday and Thursday. Let’s get right to it. Monday – This afternoon James Rojas gives one of his “interactive presentations” on urban design. The workshop will then let you put these concepts into action, giving attendees the opportunity to use their own creative interpretation of an “empire” of urban awesomeness: placing residential and [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/02/25/the-week-in-livable-streets-events-100/
Must Read for L.A. Voters: Candidates Go on Record About Subways/Bikes/Sidewalks/Big Digs/Parking/Buses (LAT) Don’t Forget to Check Out Our Interview with the Mayoral Candidates (StreetsTube) I-10 Express Lanes Are Open (LAT, The Source, Curbed, Fox, Daily Bruin) Digital Billboard Company Issues Threat to L.A. (LAT) 405 Widening Won’t Finish Until 2014. Project Still Totally Worth It! (The Source) Central Valley [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/02/25/todays-headlines-1181/
Cities Opposed to 710 Big Dig Working on Creating Their Own Coalition (Pasadena Sun) DTLA Road Signs “Hacked” Points to “Hipsters” or “Gentrification” (Curbed) Dorner Disaster Highlights Police Agencies Love Affair with Secrecy (LAT) Explaining the America Fast Forward Bonds Program (The Source) New Name for Santa Monica Park: “Tongva” (Curbed) Bicyclist Hurt Because Not Wearing Helmet…Oh, and He Was [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/02/14/todays-headlines-1174/
Fox 11: We Don’t Want High Speed Rail Mostly Positive Review of Big Dig’s Alternative Analysis, Nay-Saying on Hold Until End (EGP News) AEG Ponies Up 700k for Pershing Square Spruce Up (Downtown News) New Bike Rail Installed at Glendale-Hyperion Bridge (Silver Lake Star) Wendy Is Surging (LAT) Some People You Never Heard of Also Running for Mayor (Daily News) A [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/02/04/todays-headlines-1166/
Exploring the Route of Expo Phase II (KCET) Big Dig Proponents Won’t Give Up Fight to Ruin Their Air Quality/Quality of Life (Pasadena Sun) More Puff for Secretary Villaraigosa (HuffPo, Planning and Development Report) Pasadena Bike Boulevard Is a Go (Sun, Patch) Here’s a Photo Gallery from the Opening (Sun) L.A. (City and County) Learning How to Work Together on [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/02/01/todays-headlines-1165/
Cornfield Arroyo Seco a Model Plan for City (LAT) “Secretary Villaraigosa” Is All the Buzz (KPCC, The Hill) Republican News Site Lays Out the Scandals, Calls Him Unfit (Red Alert) “Concerned Citizens of Los Angeles” Mock the Idea of Secretary Villaraigosa (PR News) But Some People Know to Talk to the Experts (KPCC) Streetsblog SF Founding Editor’s New Site Looks [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/01/31/todays-headlines-1164/
NBC 4, CBS2 Manage to Finally Cover Hit and Run Epidemic, Don’t Mention L.A. Weekly CAHSR Hasn’t Bought Property to Start Rail Construction (LAT) Metro, Metrolink Finally Have Solution to Paper Ticket Transfer (KPCC) Thanks Gov., Without CRA Funding, Two Skid Row Parks About to Close (Downtown News) Well, There Goes Next Bus (Transit Wire) Breaking: Some People Think Big Dig [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/01/29/todays-headlines-1162/
A Look at L.A.’s Treck to Bike Friendliness, A Focus on a Broken Elbow, CicLAvia, Bike Share (LAT) The Four “Leading” Candidates Discuss What L.A. Would Look Like in 2021 (LAT) Reminder: Ballots Go Out on Feb. 4th for Mail-In (Daily News) More on the Gatto “Hit and Run” Bill. Celebrations in L.A. Weekly, Biking in L.A. Good News [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/01/28/todays-headlines-1161/
LaHood Staying for Now, Boxer Says Villaraigosa a Great Choice to Head USDOT (Bloomberg, The Hill) More on the Alternatives Analysis from the Big Dig (The Source, Star-News) CicLAvia E.D. Aaron Paley Details the Long Road to CicLAvia (Zocalo) L.A. Council T-Comm Talks Connections to Ontario Airport (Daily News) States Looking Seriously at “By the Mile” Transpo. Tax (KCET) Columnist Bemoans That State Isn’t [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/01/23/todays-headlines-1158/
Mind the Gap. More on Big Dig Enviro. Docs (LAT, Star-News) Infill Projects Surviving Most CEQA Challenges (Planning and Development Report) Crenshaw Line Begins Construction Next Year. Meeting Thursday (Daily Breeze, Streetsblog) Some Highland Park Residents Wary of Transit Village (Patch) Did Lobbyist Knabe Help Enterprise Get Sweetheart Deal from County? (LAT) Private Investment in Public Parklets a Win-Win (LB [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/01/22/todays-headlines-1157/
It’s a full week. Expect more and more campaign and election events as we get closer and closer to the March primary. We’ll resume our normal publishing schedule tomorrow. Tuesday – L.A. Streetsblog resumes normal publication. Tuesday – The Southern California Association of Governments presents a free workshop on bicycle planning at 10:00 a.m. as part of [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/01/21/the-week-in-livable-streets-events-96/
How did your favorite alternative score? Click on the image to see a legible version. You have to hand it to the public outreach folks for the I-710 Big Dig Project. Nothing says “community involvement” quite like dropping an Alternatives Analysis that was completed in December of last year to the public at Friday, at 3:50 [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/01/18/open-thread-big-dig-alternative-analysis-dropped/
In the odd drama over whether or not Glendale City Councilman Ara Najarian will be reappointed to the Metro Board of Directors, there are a lot of conspiracy theories. Congressman Adam Schiff. Photo: Tim Berger/La Canada Online Some, including the Councilman, believe that Supervisor Mike Antonovich is using Alhambra Mayor Barbara Messina and Duarte City Council Member John [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/01/16/congressman-weighs-in-on-metro-board-nomination-keep-najarian/
Alternatives Analysis Recommends Further Study for BRT/Light Rail on Van Nuys (The Source) #RoadBond Has Big Hearing Today, Is It Already Dead? (LAT) Ron Kaye: #RoadBond a Sign of Failed City Government (City Watch) NC’s Want to Be Included in Drafting Process (Daily News) Officials and Residents Await 710 Big Dig Updates (SGV Tribune) Oh, It Was the Pantless Transit Day This [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/01/15/todays-headlines-1153/
(Update: It turns out that unless the Najarian nomination is rejected by a majority in a weighted vote by the City Selection Committee, that no action is required by North County Cities earlier today. While the Committee didn’t confirm his nomination, it didn’t reject it either. This wasn’t announced until today at the meeting, with [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/01/14/najarian-effort-to-retain-metro-board-seat-about-to-commence/
Santa Monica’s Green Painted Ocean Boulevard Gets Its Star Turn (LAT) Best Line on new CicLAvia Route “from Dogtown to Downtown” (Yo Venice) Metro: No Contract with Caltrans for Big Dig Study (Pasadena Star-News) A Look at Transit Use in CA Districts of New Members of the House Transpo Committee (Cyclelicious) Metro Lets Ara Najarian Out in Public at [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/01/14/todays-headlines-1152/
Breakdown of Transpo. Funds in Governor’s Budget (The Source, Daily News) Brown, “State Is in the Black” (LAT) KCET Reporter Walks the Future Crenshaw Line More Details on Study that 60% of CEQA Cases Involve Infill Development (Planning and Development Report) Excitement Build for Bike Nation in the OC (Register) It Might Already Be Huge, But Planning Underway to Expand [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/01/11/todays-headlines-1151/
City departments are starting to shake off the holiday rust and there’s a lot of important meetings on the agenda. The city’s progressive Bike Parking Ordinance finally gets a hearing at City Council, the controversial Wyvernwood complex holds a public hearing and the end might be in sight for the Ara Najarian re-nomination to the [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/01/07/the-week-in-livable-streets-events-95/
Well, it’s time to close the books on 2012 with our last round of Streetsie Awards. As always, I have my say, and you’ll have a chance to have yours. I always miss people, both nominees and award winners, when I do this. Leave my mistakes in the comments section Politician of the Year: The nominees: Glendale [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2013/01/04/streetsies-2012-people-of-the-year/
Listen to the Candidates Debate (ABC7, Neon Tommy, LAT) Everyone Hates Pedestrian Unfriendly Pedestrian Bridge Planned for Universal City (Patch) Jan Perry Will Fight For Your Right to Park at Broken Parking Meter (Curbed) City Mulling Options on Big Dig (Pasadena Weekly) Downtown Businesses Fighting Regional Connector Tunnel Plans, Don’t Make Video Showing Buildings Explode (LAT) Boxer Creates Senate “Climate [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/12/17/todays-headlines-1139/
Which transportation projects are the smartest investments, and which are the most ridiculous boondoggles? The Sierra Club has put together a solid list in a new report titled “Smart Choices, Less Traffic: The 50 Best and Worst Transportation Projects in the United States.” Boondoggle: The widening of I-5 in San Diego is expected to cost $4.5 [...]
dc.streetsblog.org/2012/12/12/here-they-are-the-best-and-worst-american-transportation-projects/
Pick Your Headline for LAT Opinion Piece: Only 5% of Metro Riders Evading Fares Before Costly Turnstile Installation (LAT) LASD Says Controversial Gate Locking Will Stop 3% of Evaders (LAT) LASD Issued Enough Tickets Over Fare Evasion Over 2 Years to Pay for One Turnstile (LAT) Metro’s Goal: Bring Fare Evasion from 5% to 3% Yielding $2.4million in Fares [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/12/13/todays-headlines-1137/
Pasadena City Council Sends Letter to Metro Listing Concerns with Big Dig (Pasadena Star-News) Metro Will Decide on Ad Contract This Thursday (LAT) Read the Full Board Agenda (The Source) Andrea Alarcon Has a DUI Too? Maybe Its Time to Send the Kid to Daddy (LAT) Women on Bikes Interviews Bike Nation L.B.’s April Economides Don’t Be Afraid to Take [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/12/12/todays-headlines-1136/
(The original version of the story stated that the League of Cities selects the Metro Board Members. Dana Gabbard points out it is actually The City Selection Committee. The CSC is not a subsidiary of the League of California Cities, Los Angeles Division. Its authority is Sections 50270 through 50281 of the Government Code, and it is administered [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/12/10/najarian-metro-board-seat-in-danger-over-opposition-to-710-big-dig/
Measure J Needed 2/3 of the vote to win. It didn't get it. Analysis to come. Photo:County of Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder Maybe a two-thirds local threshold is just too high a bar to cross, maybe the No on J Campaign did its job too well, maybe voter turnout for the top of the ticket was too [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/11/07/measure-js-rejection-was-not-an-anti-transit-vote/
On Monday, October 15, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was feeling good. The Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, which includes the Daily News, Daily Breeze, Long Beach Press-Telegram, SGV Tribune and Pasadena Star-News, had endorsed Measure J. In front of the hundreds of transit advocates and professionals at Railvolution, a sales tax extension [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/11/05/beyond-the-spin-breaking-down-measure-j/
Tomorrow, Americans will decide who will be President of the United States for the next four years. On Friday, we took a look at the last four years of White House transportation policy under President Barack Obama. Today we review the record and the platform of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Streetsblog does not endorse candidates. Mitt [...]
dc.streetsblog.org/2012/11/05/which-mitt-would-shape-u-s-transpo-policy-the-governor-or-the-candidate/
The No on J Coalition at the start of their October press event. Photo: Sahra Sulaiman (This is the third of four op/eds on Measure J that Streetsblog will publish this week. Monday, Gloria Ohland of Move L.A. made the case for Measure J and Wednesday Streetsblog Board Member Joel Epstein did the same. In between, the BRU made their [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/11/02/no-710-coalition-no-on-measure-j/
When I last took a paternity leave, I returned with a brief column on some stories I would never get to flesh out that occured during my time off. Sometime after that, Steve Hymon started running an occasional “5 Things I’m Thinking About Transportation” series. I’ve rarely done it, but if it’s good enough for [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/10/29/five-things-im-thinking-about-transportation/
Mayoral Candidates Notice Poor State of L.A.’s Sidewalks (LAT) Feds Give Final Approval to TIFIA Loan for Crenshaw Announced in 2010 (Sentinal, The Source, KPCC) Traffic Deaths on the Way Back Up as People Return to the Road/Work (LAT) It’s Casual Rocks NPR’s California Report. THE RED LINE! (California Report) Opposition to 710 Big Dig Becoming a Deafening Din [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/10/02/todays-headlines-1091/
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Another Snoreageddon (LAT, LAT, Daily News) It’s Over, If You Didn’t Notice (LAT, Daily News) Cars Take the Streets in West L.A., There Were Backups, As There Are Every Saturday (Daily News) As Cars Stumble and Bikes Rise (Daily News) Un-Documented Immigrants Can Get Drivers Licenses (LA Weekly) Finally, Sanity [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/10/01/todays-headlines-1090/
Ad-Hoc Stadium Committee Greenlights Farmers Field Proposal (Daily News, ESPN) LA Officials Asking for Public Trust. Final Vote Set for Friday (LAT) Members of Congress Weighing in on Big Dig (Pasadena Sun) Huizar Motion Opposing All Extensions Heads to Full Council (Patch) Long Article Looking at the History of the 710 (SGV Tribune) Explaining the Legal Battle Over Metro’s Advertising [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/09/25/todays-headlines-1086/
Editorial: Changes at AEG “Disturbing” (LAT) Good Sign: Culver City PD Warns USC Fans to Get to Station Early to Get Parking (Patch) A Few More Details on Bike Nation’s Plans for Downtown (Blog Downtown) Caltech Public Health Expert: 710 Big Dig Tunnel “Could Be a Health Threat” (La Canada Online) Najarian’s Anti-Big Dig Road Show Getting Rave Reviews [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/09/21/todays-headlines-1084/
Slate Notices That Things Are Getting Better in L.A. Our Police Chief Does Motorcross (Daily News) It’s Not Just Streetsblog That Sees Trouble in Town/Gown Relations Near USC (LAT) Congratulations Santa Marino, One of the Few to Support the Big Dig (Pasadena Star) Gold Line Basket Bridge Almost Finished (Curbed) Alpern: Yes on Measure J (City Watch) Freeway Lanes and Ramps Close in [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/09/18/todays-headlines-1081/
This week is a little light on the policy meetings, unless you’re one of those people that live and die on Metro Board Sub-Committee meetings. Fortunately, there’s a lot of fun on the agenda to keep us going as Carmageddon looms in just 11 scary days from now. All Week – Do you like to ride [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/09/17/the-week-in-livable-streets-events-87/
New York Times Car Reporter Likes to Drive Recklessly in L.A. (NYT) The Big Dig Battle Will Never End (Pasadena Star-News) Waxman Reiterates Support for Subway (Patch) LA Council Running Out of Chances to Get Stadium Deal Right (LAT) Meanwhile, LA’s Stadium Being Used to Shakedown Smaller Markets (Daily News) Judge Won’t Stop Chinatown Wal Mart, at Least Not Yet [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/09/10/todays-headlines-1075/
Editorial: It’ a Good Thing That Cities Have to Cut Trees for Shuttle Parade (LAT) California Cities Frontiline in Soda Wars Thanks to Tax Initiatives (Reuters) LADOT Leading on New Sharrows Design (LADOT Bike Blog) Labor Groups Seek to Stop Wal-Mart Construction (Biz Journal) Actress Amanda Byrnes Faces a Year in Jail for Hit and Runs (LAT) “Jerry Browned” by [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/09/06/todays-headlines-1073/
Cracks in the Sidewalk Undermine L.A.’s Transportation Succeses (Planetizen) Metro Hinting That It Could Choose Hybrid Over Big Dig for 710 (The Source) 100 Year Old Backs Into Nine Students, Two Adults, in South L.A. (LAT) Councilmen Buscaino, Garcetti, Rosendahl, Not on Board with 3-Year Sidewalk Study (LAT) Downtown Groups Prepare Lawsuit Against Farmers Field Lawsuit Legislation (Daily News) Federal [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/08/30/todays-headlines-1068/
Woah, this is a huge week. Bike rides for bike protestors, bike rides for womyn, bike rides for gay history, bike washes to benefit bike messengers and a ton of important meetings. Even if I weren’t on a slow train across the country I’d be hard pressed to keep up. Momentarily – 9 am the City Council [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/08/27/the-week-in-livable-streets-events-86/
A packed house at a June public meeting on I-710 alternatives in Pasadena. Photo:Dan McGuire/Metro Last week, Metro finished its most recent public meetings outlining twelve proposals to fill the so-called 4.5 mile “gap” on the I-710 between Alhambra and Pasadena at the I-210. The public response to the twelve alternatives presented was near-uniformly negative. Anger [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/08/20/divide-and-conquer-on-the-710-big-dig/
Despite Concerns, Times Backs New Parking Rules Our Friends at the Flying Pigeon Bike Shop Are Profiled in the Times Alpern: Yes on Measure J for More Parking, Death to the 710 Big Dig (City Watch) Meanwhile, Metro Tries to Calm the Storm Brewing Over the 710 Big Dig Outreach Meetings (The Source) More on CicLAvia Expansion to the [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/08/20/todays-headlines-1061/
Pasadena City Council Unanimously Opposes I-710 Big Dig (SGV Tribune) Najarian: Metro’s I-710 Truck Numbers a “Snow Job” (Glendale News Press) Social Media Abuzz with Anti-710 Commentary (Pasadena Sun) Dirty?: “Metro to Build Huge Exploratory Tube Near Tar Pit’ (Curbed) Woman Hears Strange Noises in Head. Sues Santa Monica for $1.7 Billion Over Smart Meters (Daily Press) Program Explains Federal Transportation Bill [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/08/16/todays-headlines-1059/
City Council Finally Gets It, City’s Parking Requirements Killing Small Business (LAT, Curbed) Bond Insurer Sues State Over Dissolution of Redevelopment Agencies (KPCC) West Pasadena Joins the Fight Against 710 Big Dig, Worried About Local Streets (LAT) Ticketed Drivers “Furious” About Getting Tickets for Running Stop Signs in Mountains (LA Weekly) Backers/Foes of Wal-Mart Face Off at City Council [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/08/15/todays-headlines-1058/
Blue Line Headed for Deadliest Year Yet (LAT) More on Yesterday’s Metro Board Meeting (The Source) Traffic Signal Priority Coming for Venice Rapid Bus (The Ones) LAPD Looking for Help Identifying Driver Who Hit Cyclist and Ran (Biking In LA) Public Hearings for I-710 Massive Widening from L.B. to East LA Begin Tonight (The Source) Meanwhile Arroyo Communities Gearing Up [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/08/07/todays-headlines-1052/
Right Now – The Metro Board of Directors meets to vote on various matters related to the “Measure R+” ballot initiative for the November ballot. The Board will vote on the language that will appear on the ballot, an amendment allowing the Metro Board (with a two-thirds vote) to move funds from highway to transit projects within [...]
la.streetsblog.org/2012/08/06/the-week-in-livable-streets-events-tour-labonge-710-streetfilms-fundraiser-for-shay-and-more/
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