Month: February 2011
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Complete Streets for Los Angeles
REGISTER NOW VIBRANT SIDEWALKS • LIVING STREETS • GREAT NEIGHBORHOODS Safe and Comfortable Access for All Complete streets enable safe and comfortable access for all users on both streets and sidewalks in a way that promotes vibrant, healthy, active, and sustainable neighborhoods. This one-day event brings together civic leaders, researchers, and community organizers to articulate … Continued
February 20, 2011
Redesigning Our Streets: A Manual for Healthy, Livable, Communities
For the full pdf of this flyer, click here.
February 20, 2011
VIBRANT SIDEWALKS • LIVING STREETS • GREAT NEIGHBORHOODS
Safe and Comfortable Access for All
February 20, 2011
Being Pedestrian: Walking Tour of South Park
From January-March 2011, BEING PEDESTRIAN teams up with HABEAS LOUNGE, a mobile space designated for civic reflection created by Linda Pollack. Together we are offering a series of walks and post-walk discussions to community groups living and working in Downtown Los Angeles’ South Park neighborhood.
February 20, 2011
Being Pedestrian: A South Park Picnic
Saturday, March 12, 2 - 5 PM
Grand Hope Park, Downtown Los Angeles
February 20, 2011
Transit Coalition Monthly Meeting with Art Leahy
About The Transit Coalition: The Transit Coalition is a 501[c](3) non-profit whose goal is to increase Transit Options and Mobility in Southern California by mobilizing citizens to press for sensible public policy to grow our bus and rail network
February 20, 2011
Los Angeles Dedicates its First Bike Corral
This morning, a crowd of over a hundred people assembled to celebrate the opening of the city of Los Angeles' first bike corral. The event took place at the corner of York Boulevard and Avenue 50, in Highland Park - in front of Cafe de Leche and directly across from Bicycle Doctor.
February 18, 2011
How About An Inclusive Movement?
(ed. note - I know a lot of you already know Jessica Meaney with the Safe Routes to Schools National Partnership. But did you also know she's also on our local Board of Directors for Streetsblog? This editorial will be the first of many you'll see from our Board Members going forward. - DN)
February 18, 2011
Bike Trail Funding Survives 583 Amendments
Bet you weren’t expecting to hear any good news from the floor of the House today, were you? Turns out not everyone in Congress is as axe-happy as some high-profile Republicans. For example, Amtrak survived one attempt to cut all its funding and another to cut $447 million. (Amtrak funding does stand to lose $224 million in cuts already included in HR 1, the budget bill for the rest of FY2011.)
February 18, 2011