Month: December 2011
Streetsblog LA
Rethinking Glendale Boulevard Interactive Workshop: A new approach to Community Visioning!
Join us for an innovative approach for the rethinking semi-industrial, mix use, Glendale Boulevard in Echo Park from the 2 fwy to Sunset. Participants will be asked to create their ideal street in 20 minutes. Using recycled objects participants will build small dioramas to help think through their ideas. Because there are no limitations, and right or wrong answers this is a safe zone for all ideas. Once the time is up the builders will share their ideas in a one-minute presentation to the group. Collaboration is the next step and participants will be place in small groups. They will have 15 minutes to share their ideas. They will be tasked to pick a spot along Glendale Boulevard where they can implement their ideas. Each team will present their plan to the group. As a conclusion the ideas will be synthesized and discussed.
December 29, 2011
Metro Board of Directors
You can get this month's agenda, when available, here: http://www.metro.net/about/board/agenda/
December 28, 2011
Critical Mass
Meets the last Friday of the month at Wilshire/Western. Come hang out with the LAPD and bike around Los Angeles with a couple thousand of your closest friends
December 26, 2011
Streetsies 2011 Person of the Year
Your nominees are the Streetsie "People of the Year" from earlier with the runners up for each award thrown in for good measure.
December 23, 2011
Seattle Police Mock “Dumb F***” Jogger Hit By Semi Truck
Tim Nelson was fighting for his life after being hit by a semi truck driver while jogging in West Seattle in late October. As he was rushed to the hospital with a broken back, six snapped ribs, and a fractured skill, a dash cam in a Seattle police cruiser captured this video, which has been making the rounds.
December 23, 2011
Today’s Headlines
Featured Headline: I haven't seen an article on it anywhere, but Christine Dahab was arraigned yesterday on Felony DUI and briefly held on 100k bail. Her family posted the bail and she was released.
December 23, 2011
2011 Streetsies: It Was the Worst of Times
(It's Day 3 of our end of the year coverage. Don't forget to vote on Best of Times Streetsies posted yesterday and Worst of Times Streetsies below. You'll have a chance to tell me what I got wrong on "person of the year" tomorrow.)
December 22, 2011
Senate’s Changes to TIFIA Could Mean More Toll Roads, Less Transit
When the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unanimously passed a two-year transportation reauthorization bill last month, it quickly became clear that bipartisan support was coming at a price. First, we learned that the Transportation Enhancements bike/ped programs would lose their dedicated funding. Now, we learn that Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loans will no longer hold applicants to as high an environmental standard -- or any standard, really.
December 22, 2011