Lindsey Miller
Recent Posts
Thinking Ahead: Big Blue Bus Seeks Input on Expo Line Integration
| | No Comments
Big Blue Bus (BBB) has just begun the gargantuan process of figuring out how to best integrate its system with the Metro Expo Line Phase 2, set to open in early 2016. Three of the seven new stations being built are within the City of Santa Monica, but all are within BBB’s service area. The […]
Santa Monica City Council Approves Plans for Greenway, Safe Routes to Samohi
| | No Comments
The Santa Monica City Council took a historic vote last night to approve the conceptual design for the city’s first greenway on Michigan Avenue. The goal for the Michigan Ave. Neighborhood Greenway (MANGo) is to reduce and slow car traffic primarily through street design changes, making biking and walking through the neighborhood a safer and […]
Boxer, Villaraigosa, Talk to Mobility 21 About Local Infrastructure Crisis
| | 3 Comments
On Friday, transportation professionals, elected officials, and businesses gathered in Anaheim for the Mobility 21 Summit to discuss strategies to improve transportation and mobility in Southern California. One of the main themes of the event was the region’s failing transportation infrastructure, and fittingly, it took place on the eve of Carmageddon. The full weekend closure […]
Walking Downtown Los Angeles with L.A. Walks and California’s Top Pedestrian Advocates
| | No Comments
Old toy warehouses. Coca-Cola bottling plants. Bridge-cable manufacturing. A sushi restaurant with cardboard furniture. Angel City Brewing. Buildings covered with colorful graffiti. This is the old and the new that inhabit an area of Downtown Los Angeles that most people just catch glimpses of from the 101 or the 10 as they drive by. On […]
Thumbs Up from America’s Planners: “Everything Is Happening in L.A. Right Now”
| | 2 Comments
Planners who traveled to Los Angeles over the past four days to attend the American Planning Association’s National Planning Conference were greeted by a very different L.A. than the one they visited at the last APA conference in L.A. over 25 years ago. Walking up to the Convention Center from the east, attendees crossed the […]
“Complete Streets” Conference Wrap: Penalosa, Papandreou, Look to L.A.’s Future
| | 1 Comment
The idea of “complete streets”—that is, streets designed with all users, not just cars, in mind—isn’t a new one, but it hasn’t caught on everywhere yet. On Friday, planners, engineers, advocates, and students convened at the second annual UCLA Complete Streets for California conference at the Kyoto Grand Hotel downtown to renew their excitement in […]