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San Fernando Votes To Move Forward With Pacoima Wash Bikeway
Last night, the city of San Fernando moved a step closer to constructing a new bike path along the Pacoima Wash. The city council voted unanimously, 5-0, in favor of seeking California state Active Transportation Program (ATP) funding. If everything goes smoothly, the Pacoima Wash Bikeway would open to the public in early 2017.
March 18, 2014
Vroom! Speed Limit Increases Head Back to City Council, But Do They Have To?
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February 7, 2012
Daily News: Valley Needs Smart Transit
An editorial in today's Daily News calls for smart, strategic transit investments in the San Fernando Valley to insure that The Valley streets don't resemble their clogged counterparts on the Westside. Including their editorial two weeks ago wondering when the SFV is going to get CicLAvia, this marks the second time in October that the Valley's paper of record is asking for more progressive transportation options.
October 26, 2011
Metro Is Looking for Transit Options for Van Nuys Boulevard: Let’s Help Them Out
Yesterday, the Daily News reported on a series of public meetings (including ones tonight and tomorrow) designed to solicit feedback on what rapid transit option makes the most sense for the densest and most congested portion of Van Nuys Boulevard. $68.5 million has been set aside for this project from Measure R and Metro hopes it can be up and running by 2018.
October 25, 2011
End Goal in Pacoima: A Wash That’s Beautiful
One of the lessons that the world’s great cities learned is how to use natural and man created landmarks to strengthen and create great places. This is one area where Los Angeles still lags, and nowhere is this clearer than in the case of the Pacoima Wash.
September 26, 2011
The Real Lessons of Carmageddon – Angelenos Aren’t Idiots, We Have Too Many Highways
There are two theories to transportation engineering and traffic. One theory is that traffic is like a raging river. If you block it in one place, it will flow someplace else. If you add more space for it to flow, it will flow more smoothly. This theory has dominated traffic and transportation plans for years.
July 18, 2011
Eyes on the Street: Oh, Wilbur…
If the newly-restriped .3 mile area of Wilbur Avenue was supposed to be a compromise between the LADOT, City Council Office, advocates of fast moving car traffic, bicyclists and residents, it appears the LADOT put the politics of the situation over the road diet ahead of responsible engineering.
June 27, 2011
Chalk on the Ground, Bike Lanes in the Gutter, Faster Cars: A Wilbur Ave. Update
When we last checked in on the embattled Wilbur Avenue Road Diet, Councilman Greig Smith had ordered asked the LADOT to move forward with a "compromise" proposal that would maintain continuous bike lanes along the 2.3 mile diet but would return the northern .3 miles of the old diet to a four lane road. The merge will occur just south of the lighted intersection at Devonshire where four lanes will go to three and the reduced diet will begin
June 15, 2011
Revitalizing San Fernando Road through Landscaping
The Sylmar Business Improvement District (BID) is seeking to improve and re-imagine a just-over-half-mile section of San Fernando Boulevard through the power of greenspace creation and landscaping. The BID isn't seeking to change the use of the road, all changes will happen on existing medians. Instead, they just want to make San Fernando Boulevard a more pleasant place to be.
May 18, 2011
Bikelash in the SFV: Neighborhood Council Considers Asking for Bike Licensing
Even in the wake of another tremendously successful CicLAvia, there are still signs of a Bikelash growing in some quarters against progressive transportation design that attempts to make streets safer and efficient for all road users, not just automobiles.
April 12, 2011