Month: December 2009
Streetsblog LA
Move L.A. Wants to Get Moving!
Denny Zane is calling on the Measure R Champions and challenging them to engage in a second round of battle, this time mobilizing to embrace the 30/10 campaign which will leverage the anticipated $40 Billion in funding and then expedite the process so that 30 years of transit construction can be completed in the next 10 years.
December 15, 2009
The Footnote to All Those Complaints About Tax Cuts as Stimulus
Transportation reformers and status quo-lovers alike smacked their
foreheads in frustration when the White House's first stimulus plan
lowballed infrastructure to make
room for tax breaks that had little demonstrable effect on job creation
-- particularly the $70 billion adjustment of the alternative minimum
tax (AMT).
December 15, 2009
Rebutting the “Empty Bus” Argument Against Transit
From Jarrett Walker over at Human Transit comes some very useful ammunition in the battle of reasonable people against knee-jerk transit-bashers.
December 15, 2009
Bike Coalition’s Bike Count Hints at Chronic Undercounting of L.A. Cyclists
Last week, the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition announced the preliminary results for the three days of bicycle and pedestrian counts the group completed in the City of Los Angeles in late September this year. Fed up with the "official" numbers used by the City of Los Angeles, who continues to rely on out-of-date and incomplete census data, the Bike Coalition did its own counts, by hand, to get a more acurate picture.
December 14, 2009
Gottlieb in the Times: Stop Climate Change By Bringing More Bikes to L.A.
Robert Gottlieb, of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute
at Occidental College, penned an op/ed piece for today's Los Angeles Times arguing that the key for Los Angeles to meet it's environmental goals is to encourage more people to get out of their cars and into their bicycles. UEPI is the main sponsor for the Bicycle and Pedestrian Summit that takes place in March.
December 14, 2009
Copenhagen’s Climate-Friendly, Bike-Friendly Streets
Tens of thousands of people from nearly every nation on earth have
descended on Copenhagen this month for the UN climate summit. As the
delegates try to piece together a framework for reducing greenhouse gas
emissions, they're also absorbing lessons from one of the world's
leading cities in sustainable transportation. In Copenhagen, fully 37
percent of commute trips are made by bike, and mode share among city
residents alone is even higher.
December 14, 2009
Transport Bill Earmark to Help Road Project in Palin’s Hometown
Sarah Palin is no longer the governor of Alaska, but a project long
championed by the 2008 vice-presidential nominee -- and staunch earmark
critic -- stands to benefit from an earmark inserted into the transportation spending bill that cleared Congress over the weekend.
December 14, 2009
The Week in Livable Streets Events
Right before the holiday break, it seems the number of events for activists wane as the number of events celebrating the season increase. This week's calendar features only one government meeting of note, the Annual Holiday of Rights, and a chance to do something about bike parking in Pico-Union (along with the parties...)
December 14, 2009
Car Free Friday One Year Anniversary Breakfast (and Bike Ride…)
Celebrating
a successful year for Car-Free Fridays Campaign, the LACBC will be
having a leisurely
breakfast ride on Friday the 18th. Cyclists will meet at the corner of
park and Glendale in Echo Park and enjoy hot pancakes and coffee!
December 14, 2009