During 2013 we convened four distinct and different meetings with various partners throughout Los Angeles County: Community Based Organizations, Public Agency staffers, Elected officials and business leaders. Please save the date for our next Los Angeles Collaborative Convening on January 8, 2014 at 8am where we will be working to bring all our partners together to discuss:
Transportation Finance for the Los Angeles County Region
What we learned from our partners in 2013 in our meetings and listening sessions
Transportation Policy Goals for the Los Angeles County Region – key happenings in 2014
Engage policy makers and partners on content of a Metro County level Complete Streets Policy Best Practices
Create a dialogue among Complete Streets Practioners and Implementers
Inspire partners and us to keep moving goals forward for a more multi-modal Los Angeles County Region
We are excited to have Prevention Institute as a partner in this event. Space is limited and RSVP’s are required.
In Los Angeles County, the Safe Routes to School National Partnership and Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalitionare working to support improved policies and increased levels of funding for active transportation and complete streets. One of the ways SRTSNP and LACBC do that is by supporting a Los Angeles County Active Transportation Collaborative, which endeavors to impact transportation policy priorities for Los Angeles County specifically regarding transportation funding, equity, data collection and evaluation. Watch our video on walking, bicycling and riding Metro in Los Angeles County!
Key Stats: In Los Angeles County, the popular narrative says that everyone drives all the time, and transportation policy has largely reflected this social understanding. However, active transportation modes are a significant form of mobility, calling into question the truth of the dominant narrative.
19 percent of all trips made in Los Angeles County are completed on foot or by bicycle (2009 National Household Travel Survey: 17.6 percent walking and 1.4 percent bicycling);
34 percent of Los Angeles County students walk and bicycle to school (2009 National Household Travel Survey); and
39 percent of Los Angeles County roadway fatalities are people walking and bicycling (SWITRS 2010);
One percent (1%) of Metro’s funding is dedicated to pedestrian and bicycling projects (Metro LRTP 2009 p.15)
Metro and Caltrans eastbound 91 Freeway widening is especially alarming as it will increase tailpipe pollution in an already diesel-pollution-burdened community that is 69 percent Latino, and 28 percent Black
StreetsLA is building a new 60-foot-diameter traffic circle at the intersection of Parthenia Place and Columbus Avenue in the central San Fernando Valley community of North Hills. The project includes a short bikeway.