Day: September 16, 2011
Streetsblog LA
Venice Neighborhood Council to Discuss Main St. Bike Lanes
When: Tuesday, September, 20; 7 PM Where: Westminster Elementary – 1010 Abbot Kinney (just south of Main) The City of Los Angeles proposes to extend the bicycle lanes on Main Street in Santa Monica to the Windward Circle in Venice. This project will be on the agenda for the Venice Neighborhood Council board of directors to consider … Continued
September 16, 2011
L.A. Streetcar History Tour
On Saturday morning, 9/24/11, the Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation (www.larhf.org -- includes archival photos galore) is offering up an Urban Archeology tour of L.A. rail history...
September 16, 2011
Transit Coalition Monthly Meeting: Featured Speaker Metro’s Don Seuplveda
Featured Speaker: Don Sepulveda
September 16, 2011
The Luskin Center for Innovation: America’s Climate Choices
In 2008, Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences to establish a Committee to investigate and make recommendations on the steps needed and strategies required in response to global climate change.
September 16, 2011
In the Valley, Park(ing) Day is Beautiful
Next week, L.A. Streetsblog will take a close look at the Policies for Livable Active Communities and the Environment (PLACE) Grant awarded by the L.A. County Department of Public Health to the non-profit Pacoima Beautiful to create a plan to take advantage of the Pacoima Wash to create open space for the park starved community in the San Fernando Valley.
September 16, 2011
Boxer Clarifies: Transportation Enhancements Will Remain in the Bill
(For more on reauthorization and the fate of bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, visit Harry Reid Calls Bike Facilities “Absolutely Important” on Streetsblog Capital Hill - DN)
September 16, 2011
The Stranger: If Safer Streets Mean War, We’re Ready for Combat
Under the headline, "Okay, Fine, It's War,” Seattle’s The Stranger blog this week published a manifesto “of and by the nondrivers themselves.” They’re sick of being called “militants” for caring about pedestrian safety, and they’re tired of the specter of a “war on cars.”
September 16, 2011
Broadside: Billionaire Philanthropist Makes Last Minute Appeal to Re-Route Regional Connector
Nothing comes easy.
September 16, 2011
Q&A with Measure R Oversight Committee Advisory Panel member Allison Yoh
Earlier this week, we posted the responses of Measure R Oversight Committee Advisory Panel member Gary Painter to some questions including several suggested by readers of this blog. Today, it is Panel member Allison Yoh's turn. Yoh is Associate Director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and also a past member of the Metro Board of Directors. The latter experience resulted in my asking Yoh one extra question I didn't ask Painter.
September 16, 2011