Day: January 8, 2013
Streetsblog LA
Bike Parking Ordinance Moves Back to City Council
(Update, January 17: The City Council passed the ordinance without any discussion at yesterday's full meeting. It now awaits the Mayor's signature to become law. - DN)
It's been over 15 months since it seemed the city was poised to enact a progressive bike parking ordinance that would dramatically increase the amount of bicycle parking required in new developments. In that time, the ordinance was sent back to City Planning for a handful of technical corrections, before it re-appeared in front of the City Council Planning and Land Use Committee hearing earlier today.
January 8, 2013
Apple’s new Santa Monica store — beautiful for tourists, ugly for bikes
Just because Santa Monica is officially bike friendly doesn’t mean everyone there is. Even the ones you’d think would get it.
January 8, 2013
Calling All Transit Users: LA/2B Needs Your Feedback (That Means YOU, South L.A.)
At the end of 2012, LA/2B, the project to revamp the Mobility Element of the General Plan for L.A, announced they had narrowed down the feedback gathered during more than a year's worth of public engagement to six draft goals and their corresponding policies.
January 8, 2013
Do T&I Committee Members Get the Transpo Needs of American Cities?
Who will be looking out for the interests of transit riders in the 113th Congress? It’s easy to figure it out, said Cap’n Transit over the weekend: Just check whether they have an R or a D next to their names.
January 8, 2013
FTA Opens the Door For More Transit Expansions to Receive Federal Funding
One of the most important federal transit programs has undergone a makeover, and transit advocates are cheering the results.
January 8, 2013
What Is the Anti-Density Crowd Really Afraid Of?
Yesterday, we mentioned that some people in Washington, DC, are up in arms over a zoning rule designed to let more people move in to some residential areas. Linda Schmitt, leader of a group that goes by the name "Neighbors for Neighborhoods," is organizing against a measure that would allow people to live in existing buildings in alleyways. It was a curious complaint, because, as David Alpert at Greater Greater Washington noted, what they were all worked up over amounted to a few "cute, clean little brick house[s]."
January 8, 2013