Month: June 2008
Streetsblog LA
Metro Postpones Decision on LRTP to November. Advances Sales Tax.
Unwilling to anger any key constituencies before turning around and asking them to support a sales tax increase, the Metro's Board of Directors voted to postpone a final vote on their Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP), the document which outlines what projects will and won't be funded in the next 30 years, until the first meeting after the election in November.
June 26, 2008
South LA Street Improvement Project Moves Forward, Times Unhappy
If you're the LA Times, you think, "yuck, who wants any of that?"
June 26, 2008
Today’s Headlines
Fate of Gold Line, Sales Tax Ballot Initiative, and Long Term Plan on Today’s Metro Agenda Villaraigosa Supports Sales Tax to Increase Metro Funding (Bottleneck Blog) Rosendahl Peeved that Dodgers Won’t Pay for Buses (Bottleneck Blog, Blogdowntown) Broken Redline Strands Hundreds at Rush Hour (LAist) Department of Commerce Intervenes on San Onofre Toll Road (Times) … Continued
June 26, 2008
Urban Expeditions: A Grand Old Time
Urban Expeditions
is a branch of C.I.C.L.E.'s Bikes in the City Encouragement Program
featuring a series of monthly community-friendly rides aimed at getting
people out of their cars and onto two wheels for a cleaner, greener
city. Urban Expeditions rides happen on the third Saturday of the
month, and are free and open to everyone! Urban Expeditions is made
possible with support from REI.
June 25, 2008
Lunch Time Talk on the Downtown Model
James Rojas will be leading a discussion of his Downtown Model (written about in Streetsblog a couple of weeks ago).
June 25, 2008
Today’s Headlines
AMTRAK Swells in Suburban/Rural Areas (NPR) State Senator Pushes Expo (Times) Metro Introduces 6 New Rapid Lines (Daily News) 101 Being Widened in Santa Barbara (SBC Daily News) Fate of Gold Line Decided on Thursday (Daily Bulletin) Will Gas Prices End LA’s “Growing Love Affair with Public Transportation” (Daily News) NASA Climatologist James Hansen Calls … Continued
June 25, 2008