Make It Mar Vista: Pop Up Bike Lanes and Parklets at Westside Business Festival
This Saturday, the Mar Vista Chamber of Commerce is hosting “Make It Mar Vista” along Venice Boulevard starting at Centinela Avenue and heading west. The event is the area’s newish small business showcase, highlighting one of the Westside’s more walkable corridors with small shops and locally-owned restaurants.
November 23, 2015
The Week in Livable Streets Events
Here's your Thanksgiving Week Calendar of events. Not a lot of them, but let's all hope we're thankful for a more progressive City Council come Wednesday afternoon.
November 23, 2015
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November 23, 2015
#DamienTalks 24: Ryan Price and CalBike’s Legislative Report Cards
Today #DamienTalks with Ryan Price, Campaigns Director for California Bicycle Coalition (CalBike), about CalBike's recently released legislative report card.
November 16, 2015
Do Gas Prices Impact Transit Ridership? Sure. But There’s More…
A group of USC students under the tutelage of Professor Lisa Schweitzer produced the above chart, which seems to show a direct correlation between gas prices and ridership in Southern California. Simply put, when gas prices fall, so does transit ridership. When gas prices rise, so does transit ridership. The equation is not that simple; correlation does not mean causation. But is there a causal thread between gas prices and transit ridership?
October 28, 2015
San Diego Readies to Break Ground on $200 Million Bike Plan
Active transportation planning in the Greater San Diego area has been uneven the past several years. Advocates have sued to stop the long-term regional plan passed by the San Diego Area Governments (SANDAG) because it focuses too much on building carpool and variable toll lanes and not enough on active transportation to meet the state's greenhouse gas goals.
October 27, 2015
#StreetsR4Families: So You Missed Walk to School Day…
This year, Walk to School Day was a huge success in Los Angeles. Over 100 schools participated in the event, it drew attention from the local media, and the messaging in said media was more than just, "LOOK--CUTE KIDS WALKING TO SCHOOL."
October 9, 2015
USC Public Health Professor Asks for Better Transportation Options to USC
Transportation issues at the University of Southern California have been in the news recently. Yesterday's "Today's Headlines" featured a story about how USC's students rely on bicycles, but the administration is making it more and more difficult to bring bicycles onto campus.
October 9, 2015
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October 9, 2015
Measure R 2 (or 2.1) Season Is Underway
Yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 767 authorizing Metro to place a sales tax on a future ballot to fund transportation growth.The ballot measure would likely appear on the 2016 fall ballot, along with the presidential race, Congressional races and a variety of local races.
October 8, 2015