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Add a Green Buffered Bike Lane and Number of Cyclists Explode
Yesterday, the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition released "2011 City of Los Angeles Bicycle & Pedestrian Count Report" and a separate study on bicycling on Spring Street in the Green Buffered Bike Lane. The result? Cycling in the city is on the upswing, as positive press, CicLAvia and new infrastructure are encouraging more people to embrace two-wheeled travel.
May 11, 2012
Walking Downtown Los Angeles with L.A. Walks and California’s Top Pedestrian Advocates
Old toy warehouses. Coca-Cola bottling plants. Bridge-cable manufacturing. A sushi restaurant with cardboard furniture. Angel City Brewing. Buildings covered with colorful graffiti.
May 7, 2012
Only 70 Speakers? Regional Connector Enviro. Docs Approved by Metro
After two months of delay, and after being pushed to second on today's agenda behind the Westside Subway, the Regional Connector finally had a moment to shine at the Metro Board of Directors. The environmental documents approving the Connector passed seven to zero. The official twitter account for the Regional Connector celebrated by noting that the "Regional Connector has gone from a study to a project. How cool is that?" Given that the Connector is perhaps the most important project in the region, connecting all existing and future transit lines, the final passage of the environmental documents is very cool.
April 26, 2012
Thumbs Up from America’s Planners: “Everything Is Happening in L.A. Right Now”
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.
April 19, 2012
Surprise! City Announces Massive Bike Share Program Coming in December
In an announcement that caught even some CicLAvia organizers by surprise, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced this morning at the "CicLAvia opening" that CicLAvia partners Bike Nation will establish a permanent footprint in Los Angeles this December. The cost to the city will be minimal, as Bike Nation promises to pay for all of the 4,000 bikes and 400 kiosks coming to Downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood, Venice Beach and Westwood. Bike Nation estimates it could take a full year to complete the installation.
April 15, 2012
LAPD: Susanna Schick Fell Off Her Bicycle
(Friends of Susana's have set up a ChipIn account to collect funds to help with medical bills. You can donate, here.)
April 11, 2012
First Look at Farmer’s Field Traffic EIR: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Earlier today, AEG announced the completion of the first draft of environmental documents for Farmers Field, the proposed football stadium for Downtown Los Angeles. The document, available on City Planning's website, is a mammoth 10,000 pages and the ceremonial handing over of the documents to the city at today's event involved 13 overflowing three ring binders.
April 5, 2012
When Will Metro Move the Regional Connector? Maybe This Month…
Last week, the Metro Board of Directors decided to push a motion to approve the final environmental documents for the Regional Connector until April so that negotiations between top Metro staff and representatives of the Financial District could continue negotiations over what kind of tunneling method will be used to complete the below-ground connector through the District.
March 26, 2012