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Guest Opinion: Metro’s Proposal on Bike-share Heads in the Wrong Direction
By Richard Bloom, John Heilman and William Brien |
Greater Los Angeles is about to join cities and regions around the world that have implemented bike-share programs. But, in our complicated world of 88 cities and a county, will we get it right? Bike-share provides residents and visitors with easily accessible, shared, short-term bikes, making it easy to get from point A to point B, whether or […]
Dodging the Police and Hanging at the Pier: Santa Monica Critical Mass
By Damien Newton |
Brigitte Lauren and Lauren Larken Brave the Streets at Last Friday’s Santa Monica Critical Mass (Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a monthly series of ride reports on Critical Mass from throughout the region. In April it was a family ride in Pasadena. In May, I cruised the downtown with 200 of my closest […]
Bike-Share Has Arrived: Santa Monica Breeze Opens!
By Joe Linton |
The first public bike-share system in Los Angeles County opened today to much fanfare. Santa Monica’s Breeze bike-share features 500 bicycles at 75 stations throughout the city of Santa Monica, plus four in adjacent Venice. The system is run by CycleHop under a contract with the city of Santa Monica. System start-up funding came from the […]
Celebrate Park(ing) Day at the Park or at Your Desk
By Damien Newton |
While it may be missing much of the fanfare of previous years in Los Angeles, Park(ing) Day is still one of the happiest days on the Livable Streets Calendar. Across the world, people will gather in car parking spaces, feed the meter and turn publicly subsidized personal property storage into a public mini-park. In Santa […]
Failure of L.A. MTA Rapid Buses: Welcome to Rapid 704
By Alexander Friedman |
The City of Angels is noticeably transforming. Our once car-centric town is becoming less car-dependent. Public transit is having a comeback. Pedestrian and bicycle infrastructures are improving. New rail lines are being built, existing ones are being extended. Service on trains is increasing. Service on buses is also increasing. …Or is it? Actually, the Rapid […]
Voter’s Guide: Santa Monica’s Prop. T
By Damien Newton |
Ballot Initiative Proposition T Seeks To Limit Commercial Development in Santa Monica (Between now and the November 4th election, LA Streetsblog will be writing about as many local ballot measures that effect transportation that we can find. Please email any suggestions to damien@streetsblog.org.) A group of Santa Monica residents known as the Santa Monica Coalition […]