Month: June 2010
Streetsblog LA
The High Cost of (Bike) Parking
Are garages charging bike parking prices that the market is unlikely to bear? (Photo: Bicycles Only via Flickr) Today on the Streetsblog Network, Traffic author Tom Vanderbilt writes at How We Drive about the cost of bike parking at Manhattan garages. (New York’s larger garages have been required to offer bike parking since late last … Continued
June 16, 2010
Today’s Headlines
LAist calls this the “optimistic alternative” for the Westside Subway Is This Subway Ever Going to Make it “to the Sea?” (LAist) Plan for Truck Driver Training Facility Stalled (Daily News) More from the Soap Box on the placement of those Sharrows O.C. Breaks Ground on Large HOV Project (Register) Long Beach Slimming Its Streets … Continued
June 16, 2010
Westside Subway DEIR Meeting
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority invites
the public to the last round of community update meetings on the
Westside Subway Extension Project prior to the agency’s official
release of the project’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Report
(EIS/EIR).
June 15, 2010
New DUI Law Requires Breathalyzers in Vehicles for Offenders in L.A.
It's nice to see a story about DUI laws that don't involve a celebrity and an ankle bracelet.
June 15, 2010
Eric Cantor Postpones Battle Over Safe Routes Funding
(Update: Cantor's office responded below that the reason the "Safe Routes to School" funding cuts can't be found on the site was because the vote on this proposal ended and that it could be a YouCut proposal again in the future. Streetsblog will monitor YouCut to see when it comes up again. To see the original post, and the text of Cantor's response, click on after the jump.- DN)
June 15, 2010
The Moral Imperative of the BP Oil Spill: Drive 20 Percent Less
Editor's note: This is an essay from Jason Henderson, a Geography Professor at San Francisco State
University. He was born and raised in New Orleans and spent many years
exploring Louisiana's wetlands. He is currently writing a book about
the politics of mobility, and frequently advocates for reduced car
parking and improved bicycle space in San Francisco.
June 15, 2010
A Transit Education in Santa Rosa
I started riding the public bus to get to school in New York City
when I was about nine or ten years old. It was a trip that took half an
hour or so each way, including a walk of several blocks from the bus
stop to the school door.
June 15, 2010
Today’s Headlines
Image from today’s Sesame Street Who Will Pay for the Gulf Disaster? Not Consumers of Gasoline (WaPo) Two Decades After Valdez, Feds and Drillers Completely Unprepared for Next Big Spill (NYT) Coastal Commission Rejects Venice RV Restrictions (LAT) Hollywood and Vine Needs a Bike Station (Soap Box) Goldberg: Deep Horizon Oil Disaster Not That Big … Continued
June 15, 2010
Notes from Saturdays Bicycle and Pedestrian Meeting in Culver City
(If you live in Culver City, get your comments in on how you'd like your city to improve things for "people powered transportation" by June 18! - DN)
June 14, 2010
A Chorus of Cheers, But Then Some Jeers, Greet “L.A.’s First Sharrows”
(An early version of this post listed the Los Angeles County Bike Coalition as in partnership with the government groups. That relationship has been clarified below. - DN)
June 14, 2010