Month: August 2012
Streetsblog LA
L.A. Finally Embraces Sanity on Parking Policy
Yesterday, the Los Angeles City Council embraced looser parking standards that will allow communities some flexibility in creating parking standards for new development. The full motion can be read here.
August 15, 2012
Syncing Traffic Lights No Sure-Fire Way to Reduce Emissions
From a motorist's perspective, few things are more frustrating than sitting at a red light when the lights ahead are all green. That would help explain the popularity of traffic signal synchronization, neatly timing lights so that someone traveling the speed limit can expect to wait only every several cycles.
August 15, 2012
Ouch! That Hurts!: On-the-Job Hazards
I don't live in South L.A. But I can be found somewhere within its confines 4 times a week, on average. Often, more. And, always on the bike.
August 14, 2012
Billionaire Oil Driller Serving as Romney Energy Advisor
When it comes to transportation and energy policy, it's tough to tell exactly where Mitt Romney stands, but there's a lot to be learned by watching whom he's keeping close.
August 14, 2012
For Universal City, It’s a Bridge Not Far Enough
As the local media focuses on this morning's hearing on the NBC Universal Evolution project, there's another project that impacts the area. The proposed pedestrian bridge crossing Lankershim Boulevard and Campo de Cahuenga as part of an eighteen year old Memorandum of Understanding will cost $19 million, but questions remain on whether the bridge is even a good idea.
August 14, 2012
WaPo Blames “Distracted Walking” for Unexplained Rise in Deaths
Pedestrian deaths are up. That's the news from a recent report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Almost 4,300 pedestrians were killed in 2010 -- the most recent year for which data is available. That represents a four percent increase -- the first in five years.
August 14, 2012
Today’s Headlines
Editorial: City Doing Its Best on Potholes (LAT) San Pedro, Wilmington, Times, Celebrate Removal of Parking Meters (LAT) Garcetti, Greuel, Have Each Raised as Much as Villaraigosa with 240 Days Left (Downtown News) Still Room at Metro Event on Transportation Bill (The Source) BP Pulls Out of SoCal (OC Register) It’s Hot (Daily News) R’s … Continued
August 14, 2012
Recapping the Wilshire Rush Hour Sprint
It was a warm night last May when four racers gathered at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Amherst Boulevard to race. The race would take them east, for three miles to the corner of Wilshire and Beverly Glen Boulevard. The goal? To prove that even during Wilshire's legendary rush hour, that our chosen mode of transportation was the fastest, the most efficient, and quite simply, the best.
August 13, 2012
Long Beach: Suja Lowenthal Takes Her “One Shot” to Create Inclusive Transportation
There is a reason Suja Lowenthal is speaking at the Pro Walk/Pro Bike Conference—and it goes beyond her being a policy maker for Long Beach, where the conference is going to be held this year. It's because she holds a simple streetscape philosophy: if you gear urban design towards the most vulnerable of mobility types, walking, it can and will be safer for all mobility types.
August 13, 2012