GoSGV E-Bike Share Launches in South El Monte, First City in Expected Regional System
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Officials and the public gathered in front of South El Monte City Hall yesterday for a kick-off ceremony to launch GoSGV, the first planned multicity e-bike share program in the SGV. South El Monte became the first city to host an e-bike share fleet in what will be a regional system stationed in half of […]
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- CAHSR Authority Releases Draft Environmental Report for Northern Segment (Railway Age)
- E-assist Bike-Share Coming to San Gabriel Valley (Daily Bulletin)
- California’s Redistricting Committee Has No Latinx (LAT)
- Mobile Home Parks Have Lax Oversight (LAT)
- 50 of Our LA County Neighbors Died Because of COVID-19 Yesterday (Daily News)
- Culver City Receives $6.6 Million for Culver City Bus (CBS2)
- Low Income Apartment Complex Faces Appeal in DTLA (Urbanize)
- Ayanna Pressley Is Just As Awesome on Transit Pricing As She Is Everything Else (Curbed)
More California Headlines. More National Headlines.
Caltrans Updates Plan to Support Biking, Walking, and Transit
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Caltrans publicly commits to prioritizing actions that identify, evaluate, and fund active transportation projects
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Black Riders Stopped, Ticketed Disproportionately for Fare Evasion in Long Beach (Post)
- LADOT “Hiding Data from the Public” (Daily News)
- Eagle Rock BRT Study “in Limbo” (Boulevard Sentinel)
- Activists Bring Protests to Pols’ Homes (LAT)
- Bad Day: California Has Highest New COVID-19 Cases, LA County Has Most Deaths (LAT)
- Former Councilmember Mitch Englander Pleads Guilty to Corruption (LAT)
- Major Construction on Gold Line Foothill Phase 2 Begins Tomorrow (Urbanize)
- LA Courts Extend Terms on Parking, Traffic Tickets (Hub LA)
- U.S. Highways Were Often Intentionally Built through Communities of Color (NPR)
- Remember Back in June When LAPD Officers Called in Sick for 700 Hours of Shifts on Metro? Agency Says All the Absences Didn’t Reduce Safety (LauraNelson/Twitter)
National Headlines at Streetsblog USA. California Headlines at Streetsblog CAL.
Designing ‘Streets For Protest’ Won’t Work Because of Cops
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Can good street design really “protect” protesters — and the right to protest itself — from police brutality? To glance through the last few weeks of urbanist media, the answer might seem, at first, to be an unequivocal “yes.” The Smithsonian Magazine recently published a love letter to urban spaces like Athens and Cairo’s Tahrir […]
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Street Vendors Adjusting to Life During Covid (LAT)
- Metro Provides Update on “605 Corridor” Freeway Widening Project (The Source)
- LA County Sets New Record for New COVID Cases (Daily News)
- Editorial : We Need a National Face Mask Mandate (LAT)
- LA (and CA) Transportation Systems Prioritize Private Vehicles. That Must Change (The Source)
- California Transit Agencies Request Emergency Funding (Mass Transit)
- How to Make Equity a Priority (Urban Wire)
- Shoup: It’s Time for LA to Try Congestion Pricing (CityLab)
National headlines at Streetsblog USA. State headlines at Streetsblog California
This Week’s Events…
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Tonight, 5:30 p.m. – Union Station Homeless Services kicks off its “Changing the Narrative” series, featuring key voices from the community in an open dialogue.Tonight’s topic, “Systemic Racism and the Housing Crisis” focuses on housing discrimination, income inequality, disparities in the justice system, generational poverty, and lack of access to opportunity. To make a reservation […]
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- California Braces for Spike in Coronavirus Deaths (LAT)
- Op/Ed : You Shouldn’t Need a Car to Get a COVID Test (LAT)
- Billion Dollar NoHo Station Development Begins Enviro. Review (Urbanize)
- Is Geoffrey Palmer LA’s Worst Developer? (City Watch)
- It’s Still Really Expensive to Buy a Home in California (LAT)
- Very Few 911 Calls Are for Violent Crimes (LAT)
- Kareem : How to Keep Momentum for Social Justice (LAT)
- Speed Cameras Can Help Reduce Unneeded Interactions with Police (Daily News)
- High Speed Rail Plan for San Bernardino to Vegas Is Being Considered (Urbanize)
- Is It Safe to Get Back on the Bus? Transit Agencies Are Figuring It Out (SF Chronicle)
- Riders Are Worried (World Economic Forum)
National headlines at Streetsblog USA. State headlines at Streetsblog California.
Project Planned for Liquor Bank Site to Go Before Crenshaw Corridor Design Review Board Tonight
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Tonight at 6 p.m., the Crenshaw Corridor Design Review Board is holding an online meeting to take a final look at the plans for the 64-unit project slated to go in at the site of the Liquor Bank, at Crenshaw and Stocker. Documents for the project, including renderings, landscaping plans, and architectural notes can be […]
Metro COVID-19 Recovery Task Force Recommends Bus Lanes, Masks, Bicycling
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Metro is looking for input on what the city should prioritize during a COVID-19 recovery - including bus lanes, mask disrtribution/vending, and more people riding bikes.
McConnell Calls House Infrastructure Plan a ‘Green New Deal Masquerading As a Highway Bill’
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Not everyone thinks reforming highway funding to better dress our climate change emergency is a bad thing.