Month: September 2009
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This Week in Livable Streets Events
Tuesday and Saturday - The Los Angeles County Bike Coalition begins its bike counts within city limits for the City of Los Angeles. If the copious amount of e-mail I've gotten is any indication, and it is, they are still looking for volunteers. If you have any free time, email yhendlin@ucla.org. And for more information, click here.
September 21, 2009
Boxer Reminds Metrolink: Train Crew Members Shouldn’t Ride Solo
The transportation spending bill passed by the Senate this week includes $50 million in rail safety grants sought in June
by environment committee chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) -- but the
bill may not become law for months, and today Boxer told California's
Metrolink commuter rail that interim safety protections would have to
stay in place.
September 21, 2009
The Cost of Lowballing Light Rail Ridership Projections
The Overhead Wire has picked up on a piece in Saturday's New York Times
about how light rail ridership in Phoenix has exceeded expectations.
The post points out that this isn't the first time the Federal
Transportation Administration has underestimated demand for similar
projects, a pattern that has the potential for real consequences:
September 21, 2009
Weekend Update: The Park(ing) Day Ride
Ok, so maybe I bit off a bit more than I could chew. The route I originally mapped on Streetsblog had us visiting twenty parks at all parts of the city. Thanks to arriving early, late, or just flat-out not being able to find the spaces we ended up making it to thirteen spaces in our over forty-mile ride that began in Culver City, swung through Santa Monica and ended in the Downtown.
September 19, 2009
Happy Park(ing) Day
With the exception of those stories that are already posted, LA Streetsblog will be dark the rest of the day while I complete the Park(ing) Day ride with whoever feels like joining me for part of the ride.
September 18, 2009
Streetscast: Bill Rosendahl on Transportation Issues Within His District
Today marks the third and last part of our three-part interview with City Council Transportation Committee Chair Bill Rosendahl. Today we're discussing some high profile local transportation issues that directly effect his West L.A. City Council District.
September 18, 2009
Pro-Tea Party Republican’s Angry Letter to D.C. Metro: Read it in Full
Apparently unfamiliar with the concept of irony, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) has drafted an angry letter to the chief of Washington D.C.’s Metro, complaining that protesters at last weekend’s 9/12 “tea party” had difficulty traveling by transit — the very transit system that Brady voted against aiding, and the epitome of government spending that the … Continued
September 18, 2009
Planning and Density: Who’s Forcing Whom?
Today we're talking development and density. Greater Greater Washington has a post about zoning policies and traffic congestion in Montgomery County, Maryland, where a debate over growth policy that would encourage in-fill development near existing transit is getting heated.
September 18, 2009