Month: June 2010

For more video of folks testifying at Tuesday’s LABAC/LAPD meeting, check out Bikeside’s You Tube Page Not Every South L.A. Resident an Opponent of At-Grade Light Rail (The Front Page) Lazarus: Metro’s Blue Ribbon Commission Thinks Things Are Peachy at Metro (LAT) Transit Crunch a Livability Issue (SacBee) Heartbreaking Images from the BP Disaster in … Continued

The monthly meeting of Southern California Transit Advocates for June will feature a dialogue with David Lazarus, business columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

The Silver Lake Neighborhood Council is holding a Town Hall Meeting this Saturday from 3:00 to 5:00 P.M. at the Silver Lake Recreation Center to discuss the proposed boardwalk that would run parallel to Tesla Boulevard at the northern end of the Silver Lake/Ivanhoe Reservoir.  The Boardwalk would both "complete the jogging trail" that was opened in 2008 and, as the LADWP told the Eastsider back in March, would "get pedestrians off the narrow street on Tesla, where there is two-way traffic and heavy pedestrian use."

Too often, we focus on the issues that create a crash, and what can be done to prevent them in the future.  However, once a crash has occurred, there are real victims.  Once a crosswalk is installed and there are shiny new lights; there are still maimed victims trying to move on with their lives.  Sometimes they are back on their feet in what seems no time at all.  Other times, it is more of a struggle.

As regular readers of the Capitol Hill blog already know, yesterday marked Elana Schor's last day covering the national transportation policy beat for Streetsblog.

The Urban Land Institute, a national organization that looks at Transit Oriented Development, has stepped up its working in Los Angeles recently.  In addition to releasing reports on the state of T.O.D. in the city, they've also sponsored workshops and discussions on some particular developments.  Streetsblog and the ULI don't always agree, (for example: they proposed more car parking as a cure for the problems with the Blue Line Slausson Station area), but there's no doubting the group's reach and expertise.

You'll remember in April, while discussing the obscure Independent Citizens' Advisory and Oversight Committee (ICAOC), I mentioned the start-up of the Measure R Independent Taxpayers Oversight Committee was impending.

(Yesterday, I accidentally listed a story, Musings on Trends and Challenges of Increased Transit Use, as written by me that was by Dana Gabbard.  My bad. - DN)