Month: April 2013
Streetsblog LA
Group Ride Feeds to Tonight’s Mega MyFigueroa Meeting
After over two years, the MyFigueroa team is finally ready to present new designs and a new project to create a truly multi-modal corridor to connect Downtown to South Los Angeles.
April 9, 2013
LADOT Lays the Groundwork for Functional Car Share with Hertz. Goodbye ZipCar?
For as long as I've covered car-sharing in Los Angeles, it's been something of a disaster. Our first story, published on Street Heat in 2007, was about how ZipCar's buyout of Flex Car would lead to a dramatic reduction of car-share. Nearly six years later, Los Angeles, a city with over 4 million people, has a pathetic 40 cars in its ZipCar fleet, with less than a dozen in its nearest competitor, LAX Car Share.
April 8, 2013
Final Four Parking Madness: Tulsa vs. Houston
Which city has the ugliest asphalt expanse? The deadest downtown? The most awful place to sit and eat lunch? Those are the questions you must ask yourself as we approach the finale of Parking Madness, our hunt for the worst parking crater in the U.S.
April 8, 2013
RiverLink: The Best (Over a Decade-Old) Idea Yet to Be Realized for West Long Beach
(The 2002 River Link Report is available off our Scribd Account after the jump.)
April 8, 2013
M&W4M&W: Organization Seeks Vibrant, Active & Excited 20-somethings Ready to Go the Distance…for their Community
The last time I wrote a full piece on Community Coalition (CoCo) I was at their election-night viewing party last November. The energy in the room was electric -- from the dancing toddlers all the way up to the dancing retirees. The success of their get-out-the-vote and Prop 30 door-knocking campaigns had provided a powerful counterweight to the Times' declaration that “South L.A.’s zeal for politics [had] faded.”
April 8, 2013
The Week in Livable Streets Events
Did we miss something? Is there something big coming up next week or beyond? E-mail damien@streetsblog.org.
April 8, 2013
How Walkable Is Your State DOT’s Headquarters?
Does your state Department of Transportation dismiss every mode except driving as "unserious" forms of transportation?
April 8, 2013