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2023 will bring Slow Streets and Open Streets programs to San Gabriel Valley
Active SGV will be busy next year installing numerous temporary traffic calming, holding an Earth Day ciclovía, and renting out e-bikes on a long term basis
August 23, 2022
Where Should Southern California Do Car-Free Streets?
Ten Southern California streets that could follow San Francisco's car-free Market Street example
January 30, 2020
Area Mobility Advocate Exhausted by Bus, Makes Decision to Buy Car
What was I writing about, a woman wanted to know.
October 23, 2015
L.A.’s Real Growth Is in Car-Free and Car-Lite Families
I've never made it a secret that I'm one of the few Streetsblog editors that owns a car. But in the new Los Angeles, the one that prioritizes transit projects over highway expansion, that my family of four only has one car that we barely use is becoming the new normal.
August 1, 2013
Food Deserts: Another Way the Deck Is Stacked Against Car-Free Americans
Slate has posted this map to illustrate the concentration of "food deserts," where large numbers of people don't have access to fresh food. The USDA considers households more than a mile from a supermarket and without access to a car to be in food deserts, often with only convenience-store junk food for nourishment. In 2009, the agency found 2.3 million of these households. Here, Slate shows the preponderance of those households in Appalachia and the Deep South, and on Indian reservations.
January 4, 2011
Density, Car Ownership, and What It Means for the Future of Los Angeles
Density. Vehicle Ownership. The number of cars packed into a small area.
December 13, 2010
L.A. and Hollywood: Turning the Carfree Into Drivers
Carey Mulligan, we hardly knew you.
September 24, 2010
Views from the Summit: Experiencing L.A. from the Streets
Panel 1: A cyclist speeds down a four-lane arterial street in West Los Angeles.
Panel 2: He stops, noticing something he's never noticed before
Panel 3: He walks his bike into a small courtyard of a small church
Panel 4: He peeks in the window
Panel 5: A choir is rehearsing
Panel 6: He sits down on a bench and listens
March 23, 2010
Without a Car in the World Public Program 3: Walking in LA with DJ Waldie – Tonight!
Despite being amongst the first to offer a preview of World Without a Car, the amazing car-free photography exhibit by Diane Meyer in Santa Monica, I've somewhat fallen down on the job of promoting the events that go with the exhibition. Well, I can correct that at least for one day. Below is an email from Meyer touting tonight's panel discussion:
November 11, 2009