Day: January 28, 2013
Streetsblog LA
Move LA Huddles with Business, Enviro, Transportation Leader at Annual Conference This Friday
Despite all the progress being made on transit, bicycle, and pedestrian projects in Los Angeles, the long-term transportation funding picture remains uncertain. Measure J was narrowly defeated in the ballot box. The courts have backed Jerry Brown's dissolution of Community Redevelopment Agencies. The state also continues to default on its obligation to help defray the cost of transit operations.
January 28, 2013
Huntington Drive Parklet Grand Opening and Community Celebration
Press release via Councilman Jose Huizar
January 28, 2013
Grand Opening of Two Parklets on Spring Street
Press release via Councilman Jose Huizar
January 28, 2013
Highland Park York Boulevard Parklet Grand Opening and Community Celebration
Press release via Council Member Jose Huizar:
January 28, 2013
Clean-up Effort of a “Beauty Spot” Unearths a Strange History in Watts
When is a public park not open to the public? Or even a park?
January 28, 2013
CD 11 Livable Streets Candidate Forum Videos Online. Next Streetsblog TV Events Announced
It might have taken five days longer than we thought, but I finally uploaded the entire two hour Livable Streets Candidate Forum for the four candidates vying to succeed Bill Rosendahl in Council District 11. Watching the video again, it's striking how few times Rosendahl's name comes up in the discussion.
January 28, 2013
The Week in Livable Streets Events
The big event on the calendar has to be the Move L.A. event at the end of the week. And not just because it has a party for Bill Rosendahl at the end.
January 28, 2013
Actually, Naysayers, Change Is Inevitable
Sooner or later, every urban reformer is confronted with some local leader or newspaper commenter who rejects ideas to improve the way cities work, on the grounds that, essentially, cities don't work that way now.
January 28, 2013