Day: October 15, 2008

Usually meets the 3rd Saturday of every month. Join us for a light breakfast at 9:30 AM.Meeting starts at 10:00 AM (213) 387-2800

The IE Critical Mass is a fun bike ride that takes place every third Friday of the month. We meet at 7pm, ride at 7:30pm for you stragglers, in the REI parking lot located on the northwest corner of Foothill Blvd and Day Creek Blvd in Rancho Cucamonga.

Last Friday of every month in hundreds of cities around the world, cyclists, roller bladers, boarders, etc...come together for a festive rolling celebration. It's an organized coincidence with no leaders and no set agenda. People come together for many reasons, to assert their right to cleaner air, less congestion, safer roads, and to celebrate and ride in solidarity with other cyclists and like minded individuals. Celebrate this month with Critical Mass!

The Boyle Heights residential community is the first of three pilot survey areas that will be completed for SurveyLA. The City has compiled much information on Boyle Heights, which they will share with you, but need additional information on many topics or themes.The purpose of this meeting is to get your help to do the following:

No one can deny that our region is gripped by many problematic planning pressures - intense traffic congestion, unaffordable housing, increasing density, and the aesthetic blight of poorly designed buildings. Residents' frustration often boils over at city council and community group meetings. Are planning "elites" so out of touch with resident concerns that they have ceased to represent their constituents? Or should complex land use regulation and municipal budgets be left to the cool heads of elected officials and their technocratic staffs? Are citizen initiatives an effective answer to out-of-control power? Or, do such initiatives impose inflexible solutions that are detrimental to the common good? Are planning initiatives democratic, or just another tool of the powerful -- whether Wal-Mart or NIMBY? Registration & Pricing: Members: $20 ($15 Full-time Member Students with ID) Nonmembers: $40 Online Registration

Today marks the start of Transportation for America‘s “Build for America” campaign, which will work to influence the transportation funding legislation that goes before the next Congress in 2009. (You’ll be hearing a lot more about it here in the coming months; we have received a grant from the T4America campaign to kick-start the development … Continued

(As we've already seen today with Measure R, the campaign for and against Proposition 1A, a bonding measure to pay for High Speed Rail, is also heating up as the weather cools down.  Today, the Times profiled the efforts to support and oppose the ballot prop.  Speaking for those in favor, Dana Gabbard writes below some of the many reasons that Californians should support High Speed Rail in a couple of weeks.)