City Council Transportation and Planning and Land Use Joint Committee: The Draft Bike Plan
Get the agenda, here: http://ens.lacity.org/clk/committeeagend/clkcommitteeagend3070136_02092011.pdf
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Today’s Headlines
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LADOT Report Shows Bicycling Up (Urbanize) My Bike Activist Friend Was Killed By A Driver (LAT) LAPD Shot and Killed Unarmed Samuel Ponce In Westlake (LAT) Protesters Gather By LAPD Headquarters In Wake Of Daunte Wright Shooting In Minnesota (LAT) Street Vendors Struggle To Get Vaccinated (LAist) Florence On-Ramps Open On Metro 5 Freeway Widening […]
Op-Ed: Sure, Blame the Drivers — But the City is At Fault
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A viral video out of California is sparking conversation about dangerous driving. But the real villain here is barely mentioned at all: a multi-lane street designed to encourage speeding,
Talking Headways Podcast: Call it the Manual Undermining Terrific Community Design (MUTCD)
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We have met the enemy and it is the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
USDOT Grant Program Will Prioritize ‘Sustainability’ and ‘Equity’
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The U.S. Department of Transportation is re-branding one of its largest discretionary grant programs to explicitly reward regional and local governments who put equity and sustainability first in their transportation projects. But some advocates are holding their applause until they see how the department will actually define those critical terms.
Today’s Headlines
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Metro Budget Process Sidelines Riders (Investing in Place) LADOT Counts Folks Walking And Bicycling (MyNewsLA) Carnage: Driver Killed In Single-Vehicle Crash In Agua Dulce (Santa Clarita Signal) …Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Pedestrian In South L.A. (LAPD online) UCLA Study Links COVID Deaths To Bad Air Quality (Antelope Valley News) 232-Apartment Complex Planned Next To Pasadena’s Sierra […]
Eyes on the Street: New Bike Lanes on 7th Street in Koreatown
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One-third of a mile new bike lanes in Ktown, plus two new blocks of bike lanes on Figueroa Street in Chinatown