Eric Garcetti
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L.A. City Transportation Budget Hearing Highlights Vision Zero Debate
Garcetti has proposed $16.7 million for Vision Zero, livability advocates are urging $80 million for the program.
May 2, 2017
How Mayor Garcetti Can Make L.A. Bike-Friendly – 1: Easy Bike Facilities
If Mayor Garcetti wants to make Los Angeles a bicycle-friendly city, here are ~50 streets that should receive bicycle upgrades right away.
March 22, 2017
Broad Measure S Opposition Coalition Rallies Against “Scorched Earth” Housing Ban
Mayor Garcetti, business, labor, environmental and housing leaders - and Streetsblog L.A. - are encouraging you to vote no on Measure S.
February 1, 2017
Coalition Launches Yes on H for Quarter-Cent Sales Tax to End Homelessness
The Yes on Measure H campaign kicked featured a broad array of electeds: L.A. County Supervisors, L.A.'s mayor, representatives from South Gate, Culver City, Pomona, Compton, West Hollywood and elsewhere. Labor, business, service providers, clergy and former homeless also spoke in favor of Measure H.
January 30, 2017
Garcetti Sustainability ‘pLAn’ One Year Update Shows Environmental Progress
For last week's Earth Day 2016, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti presented a one-year update on his April 2015 Sustainable City pLAn.
April 25, 2016
Garcetti, LADOT and Xerox Announce New GoLA Multi-Modal App
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 of Los Angeles, shepherded by the Mayor Eric Garcetti's Chief Innovation Technology Officer, Peter Marx.
January 27, 2016
South L.A. Town Hall Ends in Protests but Residents Hope Dialogue with Mayor Is Just Beginning
Really? A helicopter??
October 21, 2015
Equity, the Mobility Plan, and the Myth of Luxury-Loving Lane Stealers
It's hard to take some of the hysteria surrounding the City Council's approval of Mobility Plan 2035 this past August very seriously.
September 14, 2015
Lawsuits and Leadership: Where Is Mayor Garcetti On L.A. Mobility?
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, walk, and bicycle infrastructure, including traffic calming.
September 10, 2015
First Round of Great Streets Improvements Continue on Cesar Chavez; City Says Community Engagement on Horizon
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 process" in which the city "[worked] with neighborhood stakeholders to develop a vision for each corridor."
September 2, 2015