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Planetizen Talks to UCLA Professor About Women’s Safety on Buses
Thanks to an excellent submission by Enci Box last year, we've had a couple of great discussions on women's safety on the streets, both for cyclists and pedestrians. However, we haven't spent nearly as much energy discussing safety for bus riders, especially women bus riders. Fortunately, Planetizen Editor Tim Halbur sat down to have an in-depth discussion of this issue with UCLA Professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris. You can read the full interview at Planetizen, and I strongly recommend it for anyone interested in this issue as both Halbur and Loukaitou-Sideris do a great job. For those without the time to read the full interview, here's an except.
February 11, 2010
LADOT Outlines Massive Cuts, Fare Hikes, for DASH
For much of the last year, Los Angeles' transit riders were spared much of the suffering caused by the Governor and legislature's decisions to eliminate transit funding in the name of partially closing the yawning chasm which is the state's budget deficit. However, those days are long gone. Already we've seen a large service cut plan passed by the Metrolink Board of Directors. Today we see the outline of a coming massive service cut for LADOT's DASH, Commuter Express, Charter Bus, and City Ride bus services.
January 11, 2010
Metro Tweaks Schedule This Weekend. New Routes to Start on Monday.
Just a reminder: Metro has its semiannual shake-up this Sunday, Dec. 13th.
December 11, 2009
In New Orleans, LaHood $280 Million in Bus and Streetcar Grants
During a visit to New Orleans, where city planners are seeking
nearly $100 million in federal stimulus money for three new streetcar
lines, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced plans to
award $280 million in grants for streetcar and bus networks.
December 2, 2009
Life Without Measure R: Massive Transit Cuts in Orange County
Earlier today the Orange County Transit Authority's Board of Directors voted, by a 14-1 margin, to cut 150,000 hours of transit service by early next year. Believe it or not, the plan was actually an improvement from an earlier draft of the cuts had 300,000 hours of service. The Register describes the cuts:
November 23, 2009
How Bus Transit Can Help the Auto Industry
When Vice President Joe Biden visited
Minnesota's New Flyer bus company to tout the economic stimulus law's
$8.4 billion investment in transit, hopes were high for a boom in
cleaner-burning vehicle production -- which made for some bad press when the nationwide transit funding crunch forced New Flyer to lay off 13 percent of its workers.
October 26, 2009
Metro Board Passes Long Range Transportation Plan
(editor's note: For more of a blow-by-blow from today's meeting visit the twitter feeds for LA Streetsblog, Soap Box and I Will Ride)
October 22, 2009
Streetsblog Responds to City Watch Columnists Attack on Bus-Only Lanes
(editor's note: A couple of weeks ago Joe Linton wrote an update on Los Angeles' support for the Wilshire Bus-Only Lane. A City Watch Columnist, Harold Katz, responded with an article attacking the project.)
October 14, 2009
Council Moves Forward with EIR for Wilshire Boulevard
Yesterday's full Los Angeles City Council meeting ran
extraordinarily late due to a potential lawsuit between the Controller
and the City Attorney. The council's Transportation Committee meeting, previewed last week here and here, was scheduled for 2:00 P.M. but didn't begin until after 4:30 P.M. By then,
most of the Department of Transportation (LADOT) staff had left.
Remaining were a little more than half of the initial 30+
yellow-t-shirt clad Bus Riders Union members, a half-dozen Comstock
Hills homeowners, and a couple of bicyclists.
September 10, 2009
Feds Still Forcing Transit Agencies to Bow to Private Charter Buses
Streetsblog Capitol Hill reported yesterday
that the U.S. DOT would end a Bush-era mandate to reward new transit
projects for using private contractors -- but a similar
pro-privatization rule for bus service remains in effect, preventing
local transit agencies from competing with private charter companies.
September 3, 2009