Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Mobility Plan 2014

Your Friday Video of Zen: DTLA Street Futures (Featuring CicLAvia)

By Sahra Sulaiman | Dec 18, 2015 | 3 Comments

What will the future streets of Los Angeles look like? And what sorts of innovations, interventions, infrastructure, interconnections, and events will help us get there? And can we get there in a way that is sustainable, grounded in community experiences, and does not displace residents of communities that have experienced historical disinvestment? Digital artist, […]

Mobility Plan Modest Amendments Sail Through L.A. Planning Commission

By Joe Linton | Dec 17, 2015 | 5 Comments

The Los Angeles City Planning Commission approved a series of “modest” amendments to the city’s multi-modal Mobility Plan 2035. Commissioners uniformly praised the plan, calling it “forward-thinking” and “multi-faceted”, before approving it by a 7-0 vote. Mobility Plan 2035 is the transportation element of the City of Los Angeles’ General Plan. Mobility Plan 2035, while […]

City Council Votes to Rescind/Re-Adopt Mobility Plan 2035; Substantive Amendments to Be Discussed in 2016

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 25, 2015 | 5 Comments

Midway through a rather uneventful City Council meeting — minus the dude pacing the aisle in what looked like a Klu Klux Klan hood made out of a pillowcase — the council took the next steps forward on Mobility Plan 2035. You will recall that Fix the City — tireless crusaders against “lane-stealing” transit users […]

Mobility Plan Re-Approval Passes Joint Council Committee Meeting

By Joe Linton | Nov 11, 2015 | 40 Comments

The city of Los Angeles’ progressive Mobility Plan 2035 was re-affirmed yesterday at a joint meeting of the City Council Transportation and Planning Committees. In August, the plan was approved on a 12-2 vote of the L.A. City Council. Under the scrutiny of a lawsuit challenge, the city is in the process of removing some allegedly […]

L.A. City Council Plans Re-Vote on Mobility Plan 2035

By Joe Linton | Oct 30, 2015

Earlier today, Los Angeles City Councilmembers Mike Bonin, Jose Huizar, Felipe Fuentes, and Joe Buscaino put forth the procedural motion 15-0719-s11 [PDF] to rescind and re-approve L.A.’s Mobility Plan 2035. The motion comes in response to a lawsuit claiming, among other things, that plan amendments violated City Council procedures. Councilmember Mike Bonin, a proponent of Mobility Plan 2035 […]

Equity, the Mobility Plan, and the Myth of Luxury-Loving Lane Stealers

By Sahra Sulaiman | Sep 14, 2015 | 19 Comments

It’s hard to take some of the hysteria surrounding the City Council’s approval of Mobility Plan 2035 this past August very seriously. And by “hysteria,” I mean the lawsuit and most recent claims by Fix the City president James O’Sullivan, who told MyNewsLA that the city “want[s] to make driving our cars unbearable by stealing […]

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