Mixed Message: If You Don’t Fill Out Your Census, We Won’t Do More Widenings

By Damien Newton
Mar 23, 2010

Hmm. If I knew that my census form was going to help determine how much sprawl-inducing highway expansion funding my community was going to get, I would have told them there were -4,000,000 in my house.

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Eyes on the Street: The Census Wants Us to Have Enough Buses Too

By Damien Newton | Mar 30, 2010

Thanks, Spokker. Last week I sarcastically noted that the census was encouraging people to fill out their forms by promising them wider highways. One of our regular commenters, you know him as Spokker, pointed out signs that were also promising more buses. He grabbed a picture of this billboard on La Brea Avenue between the […]

As Number of Carpool Riders Fall, Why Is L.A. Doubling Down on New Lanes?

By Damien Newton | Feb 1, 2011

Los Angeles County has one of the most extensive and far-reaching carpool lane networks in the country. And it’s still growing. Between 1997 and 2010, the County added 244 lane miles of HOV lanes bringing the total system to 513 lane miles. Pretty much every highway expansion project in the county is an HOV project […]

L.A.’s Real Growth Is in Car-Free and Car-Lite Families

By Damien Newton | Aug 1, 2013

I’ve never made it a secret that I’m one of the few Streetsblog editors that owns a car. But in the new Los Angeles, the one that prioritizes transit projects over highway expansion, that my family of four only has one car that we barely use is becoming the new normal. Yesterday, Streetsblog.net reported on […]

Metro Debates FY10 Budget, Including Measure R

By Damien Newton | May 27, 2009

Photo of Ansaldo-Breda built High Speed Rail Car via Jimcb/Flickr Tomorrow is the fourth Thursday of the month, and that means it’s time for another packed agenda for another Metro Board agenda. The agenda is dominated by the adoption of Metro’s FY10 Budget and various side items such as the next chapter in the controversy […]

Move L.A. Hosts “L.A. on the Verge” This Friday, What Would You Do with Measure R+

By Damien Newton | Feb 22, 2012

Is Los Angeles on the “verge of a transit breakthrough” as Move L.A. states in the promotions for Friday’s all day conference featuring Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other political leaders, labor organizers and environmental groups? Or, is Los Angeles decades away from fulfilling the dream of a workable rail system promised by Measure R? If […]

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Highway Boondoggle Case Study #1: Georgia’s Effingham Parkway

By Phineas Baxandall and Jeff Inglis | Sep 16, 2014

This week, U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group will release a report titled, “Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future.” In it, they examine 11 case studies of some of the more wasteful, least needed roads being built in America right now. At a time when Americans are driving less and government traffic projections […]