Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Eric Garcetti

Garcetti Sustainability ‘pLAn’ One Year Update Shows Environmental Progress

By Joe Linton | Apr 25, 2016 | 2 Comments

For last week’s Earth Day 2016, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti presented a one-year update on his April 2015 Sustainable City pLAn. The mayor’s ambitious “pLAn” [PDF] serves as a mechanism to keep the city committed to and on track towards various sustainability goals: reducing vehicle miles traveled, reducing traffic fatalities, increasing walk/bike/transit mode share, fostering transit-oriented development, etc. […]

Garcetti, LADOT and Xerox Announce New GoLA Multi-Modal App

By Joe Linton | Jan 27, 2016 | 10 Comments

Los Angeles has a new transportation app that helps Angelenos choose ways to get around. The GoLA “Mobility Marketplace” App shows various transportation modes, including bicycling, transit, taxi, ride-hailing, driving, and parking and allows users to compare modes to see what is fastest, cheapest, or greenest. The app is a collaboration between Xerox and the city […]

South L.A. Town Hall Ends in Protests but Residents Hope Dialogue with Mayor Is Just Beginning

By Sahra Sulaiman | Oct 21, 2015 | 35 Comments

Really? A helicopter?? I sighed as I heard the aircraft swoop in low and fast outside Holman United Methodist Church Monday night as Mayor Eric Garcetti’s first ever South L.A. Town Hall came to a rather unceremonious close. It was a little after 8 p.m., and pleas from an exasperated Reverend Kelvin Sauls that those […]

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 […]

Lawsuits and Leadership: Where Is Mayor Garcetti On L.A. Mobility?

By Damien Newton and Joe Linton | Sep 10, 2015 | 32 Comments

Yesterday, the Orwellian-sounding Fix the City officially announced their lawsuit against the recently approved city of Los Angeles Mobility Plan 2035. The plan, unpopular with those that value car travel time over public safety, is controversial because of provisions that would, in some cases, remove mixed-use travel lanes (car lanes) or car parking to add bus, […]

First Round of Great Streets Improvements Continue on Cesar Chavez; City Says Community Engagement on Horizon

By Sahra Sulaiman | Sep 2, 2015 | 10 Comments

Tracking the Great Streets program as it has begun to unfold around town has, at times, been a bit of an exercise in frustration. Which never fails to strike me as odd, given Mayor Eric Garcetti’s declaration that the transformation of the 15 chosen streets into gathering places would happen via a “bottom-up and community-based […]

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