Day: March 31, 2011
Streetsblog LA
Strange Bedfellows Unite for Infrastructure Investment, Financing Tools
The “Tom and Rich Show” continued on Capitol Hill yesterday. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue and AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka joined up for yet another event to show that business and labor, which don’t agree on anything, agree on a major infusion of federal investment for infrastructure.
March 31, 2011
Meet the L.A. Streetsblog Board: Jessica Meaney
As most of our regular readers know, the past year has been an exciting one for Los Angeles Streetsblog. One of the most exciting things was the creation of a Board of Directors to help guide our Los Angeles efforts. In the coming weeks and months, we'll be doing a series of audio and video interviews to introduce you to our team. Today seemed the perfect day to do our video series with the Safe Routes to Schools National Partnerships woman on the ground in Southern California, Jessica Meaney because tomorrow the Los Angeles City Council will be voting on whether or not to go forward with a new plan for making our streets safe for children to walk and bicycle to school.
March 31, 2011
Eyes on the “Street”: You Can Upload Cash Purse Directly to Your TAP Card
Last night, a reader who wished to remain anonymous passed along the good news that users of Metro's "TAP Card" can now add cash amounts, not just multi-trip passes such as monthly passes, to their card via TAP's official website. We should note that the new balance doesn't load immediately, but will the next time you tap your TAP card.
March 31, 2011
Introducing Our New Comment System – For Real This Time
You may have noticed something different about Streetsblog's comment system this morning. We’re doing a tech upgrade and introducing a new commenting platform called Disqus, which we hope will enrich the conversation here and make it easier for you to connect with other readers. Los Angeles is the last Streetsblog to switch over to Disquis, so hopefully most of the bugs have been worked out by now.
March 31, 2011
Forty Transportation Experts, One Message
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee just spent two days listening to 40 experts from different aspects of the transportation sector and advocacy community, from engineers to environmentalists to the Tea Party. Each person had just four minutes to speak and they crammed as much as they could into their time: observations, demands, recommendations for a better transportation bill. Their ideas were widely divergent on many points, but on one, they found unity: This should not be a smaller bill than the one that came before it.
March 31, 2011