Report Offers Better Ways to Cut Traffic from New Development
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What if instead of requiring developers to add parking or widen roads, we asked them to do things that discouraged driving and car ownership? That's what Smart Growth America recommends.
What Does It Mean for Bike Advocacy When Big Business Hires the Advocates?
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Game-changing or just greenwashing?
Today’s Headlines
|- Tunneling Gets Underway On Purple Line Extension Segment 1 (The Source, Curbed)
- City Employee Fined $16K Over Parking Abuse At Pershing Square (LAT)
- Construction Underway On 5-Story Crenshaw Line TOD Apartments (Urbanize)
- Pico Union Affordable-Homeless Housing Under Construction (Urbanize)
- How Can L.A. Deal With Bike Lane Blockers? (Biking in L.A.)
- CA Forces L.A. To Eliminate Councilmember Veto Over Homeless Housing (LAT)
- San Diego To Crack Down On Segways After Sidewalk Lawsuit (LAT)
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Bus Routes Helping Bridge Milwaukee’s Notorious Racial-Economic Divide
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New research shows two reverse-commute bus routes are providing a vital link for low-income neighborhoods. But the state may stop funding them.
Today’s Headlines
|- Metrolink CEO Art Leahy To Retire In January (LAT)
- New LAX Station Renderings and Crenshaw/LAX Operations Report (The Source, Curbed, Urbanize)
- Small 3-Wheel Electric Cars On L.A. Streets (LAist)
- New Apartments Under Construction Along Orange Line in NoHo (Urbanize)
- Beverly Hills High School Students On the Anti-Metro “Walkout” (BH Highlights article, video)
- Long Beach Recognized As One Of Top Bike-Friendly Cities (LB Post)
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This Week In Livable Streets
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Metro board, Hollywood history ride, Metrolink discounts, MyFigueroa, and more
Trump May Let Big Auto Hide Ped Safety Records
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A five-star safety rating for pedestrian crashes would publicize some of the hazards of SUVs. But automakers and the Trump Administration might block the Obama-era reform.
Today’s Headlines
|- Another Truck Crashes Into 210 Freeway Gold Line Tracks (ABC7, KTLA5, CBS2)
…Someday Caltrans and Metro Will Fix This Dangerous Situation - City Manager Reccommends Against Orange Grove Road Diet (Pasadena Now)
- More On Beverly Hills Anti-Metro “Walkout” (LAT)
- In North Hills, Driver Crashes Into Charter Bus, 25 People To Hospital (KTLA)
- Ground Broken For Orange Line Improvements (Curbed)
- 41-Story Mixed-Use Tower Approved For Figueroa and 8th (Urbanize)
- More On Spring Street Protected Bike Lane Opening (Urbanize)
- Fullerton NIMBYs Block Homeless Housing (LAist)
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Experts: Feds Aren’t Fixing Pedestrian Safety Crisis
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Federal officials are failing to protect pedestrians — and, in fact, err on the side of drivers and even blame walkers for a pedestrian death toll has increased 50 percent in just eight years, advocates say.
Today’s Headlines
| | 1 Comment- Beverly Hills School District President Korbatov Pushes Trump To Stop Subway (Curbed)
…Beverly Hills Weekly (page 9) On Korbatov, Students To Bus To Protest Subway Today
…LAT Editorial: Come On Beverly Hills, Quit Subway Hysteria - Councilmember Mitch Englander To Vacate His Council Seat (LAT, LAist)
- Ghost Bike Memorializes Panorama City Hit-and-Run Victim (Daily News)
- LACBC Responds To Bicycling Naming L.A. Worst Biking City (Biking in L.A.)
- State Nabs 491 Disabled Placard Scofflaws (LAT)
- SGV Tribune Looks Into Pasadena-NoHo BRT Project (SGV Tribune)
- Curbed Profiles Mixed-Use TOD Planned At Vermont/Santa Monica Red Line Station
- L.A. Needs To Stop Green Gentrification (LAT)
- Opinion: A Carbon Tax Is A Good Thing (LAT)
- NY Times To CA: Step Away From the Car
- Disney’s 1950 Driver Cartoon Is Relevant Today (LAist)
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Huizar Cuts Ribbon On Spring Street’s New Protected Bike Lane
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On Thursday, L.A. City Councilmember José Huizar hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate Downtown L.A.’s newly protected bike lane. As SBLA’s earlier photo piece showed, the existing southbound buffered bike lane on Spring has been widened, protected, and moved to the left side of the street. Huizar was joined by LADOT General Manager Seleta Reynolds, […]