Month: October 2010

This is our second in our new e-interview series.  The first was with Melissa Hebert of LAX Car Share.  If there’s an advocate or personality that you think we should interview, please drop me a line at damien@streetsblog.org

On Monday, President Obama talked infrastructure with two governors, eight mayors, four former transportation secretaries (and the current one), two labor leaders – and one public interest advocate. That advocate was Angela Glover Blackwell, founder of the think tank PolicyLink and chair of the Transportation for America Equity Caucus, which launched last week. The roundtable discussed the president's $50 billion infrastructure proposal, which is galvanizing transportation reformers as the contours come into sharper focus.

Planners in 45 regions in 27 states have a little more to work in their efforts to shape sustainable growth.

Daily News: We’re On Board with 30/10 Chronicle Writer Slurs Jerry Brown by Calling Him “Bike Lane Brown” Map of Where the Pico-Union Bike Maps Are Going (LAist) Prop. 23 Foes Out-Spending Proponents (LAT) Lots of Letters on CicLAvia and Wilbur Ave. (LAT) Full Story on BBB Joining Google Transit (Be a Green Commuter) An … Continued

Allison Mannos from the LACBC's City of Lights Program and Allison Mannos and Councilman Ed Reyes Install Bike Parking at the CARECEN Day Laborers Center

Earlier this week, Metro staff released its recommendations for the Locally Preferred Alternatives for the Westside Subway.  While a proposed spur of the Purple Line through Wests Hollywood and the idea of extending the subway "To the Sea" were shelved for now; the final route for the last leg of the extension, i.e. whether it will have a stop at Constellation Avenue or Santa Monica Boulevard in Santa Monica, was left unresolved for further study.

Streetsblog is pleased to present the third episode in UCLA planning professor Donald Shoup's ongoing inquiry into whether the Cato Institute's free market principles extend to the realm of parking policy. Read Shoup's previous replies to Cato senior fellow Randal O'Toole here and here.

When President Obama announced his push for a long-term transportation bill on Monday, he introduced a report by his Council of Economic Advisors and the Treasury Department analyzing the economic impact of infrastructure investment [PDF]. At face value, the numbers in the president's plan might not look so impressive. It calls for rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, laying and maintaining 4,000 miles of railways, and the restoration of 150 miles of airport runways.

How we get to work in America -- it's a function of a city's demographics, its physical structure, and the quality and availability of different transportation options.