Day: October 5, 2011

"Out the Window" is back on the bus.  Until the end of November, Transit TV is donating two minutes of every hour to Freewaves' Out the Window series featuring local film makers and artists short videos about what they love about Los Angeles.

Tonight, a series of Veggie Grill restaurants is hosting a series of fundraisers for CicLAvia at seven locations around L.A. County and Orange County. A 50% of all meals bought after 5:00 P.M. goes to the CicLAvia coffers which is a pretty sweet deal. Joe Linton, Joel Epstein and myself are all going to be co-hosting the one in Santa Monica tomorrow night. In addition our Smackdown Conversations on different issues, we'll also have some grab bag prizes including some CicLAvia schwag, a Streetsblog t-shirt and some Streetfilms DVD's.

Has your morning bus commute gotten a little more crowded lately? Sharing the light rail car with a few more folks? That’s because transit ridership just keeps rising, according to the American Public Transportation Association. Americans took 85.7 million more trips on public transportation in the first six months of this year than they did during the same months last year.

Who pays the price for our car-centric transportation system? The short answer is we all do. But no one as much as the elderly, the poor, people with disabilities and children.

Featured Headline: Most regular readers know the great respect I have for James Rojas and his interactive modeling projects.  Last week, he took his project behind the Orange Curtain to Santa Ana.  The Orange County Register has a pretty good review of the event, and Rojas has posted a couple dozen pictures to his Facebook … Continued