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Kinkisharyo Agreement Reached, Metro Rail Cars To Be Built in Palmdale
In October, the L.A. Times declared Kinkisharyo's Palmdale Metro light rail car manufacturing plant "all but dead." KPCC reported that County Supervisor Mike Antonovich spoke at a rally condemning labor's legal challenges as "nonsense." County Supervisor Don Knabe opined that "regulatory red tape" had cost L.A. County jobs.
November 25, 2014
Garcetti Motion Encourages Affordable Housing At Metro Stations
Earlier today, the Metro board of directors passed a motion [PDF] encouraging Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and affordable housing.
November 13, 2014
Garcetti, City Leaders, Promise Hundreds of Repaired Streets Every Year
Flanked by elected and appointed city officials, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a handful of initiatives and reforms that would increase city revenue for road repaving by nearly $50 million a year at the "under reconstruction" corner of National and Barrington Boulevards in West Los Angeles.
November 12, 2014
More Housing, Less Sprawl: Tackling Los Angeles’ Affordable Housing Crisis through Smart Growth
It is no secret that Southern California is currently facing one of the worst housing crises it has faced in more than half a century.
October 31, 2014
New Chamber of Commerce Excited About Great Streets on Venice Blvd.
Mike Bonin is not someone who is known for thinking small.
October 30, 2014
City Nears Purchase of Key Parcel for L.A. River Revitalization
A big property acquisition is underway that will set the stage for planned large-scale revitalization of the Los Angeles River. The City of Los Angeles is expecting to complete the purchase of a former railyard site that Mayor Eric Garcetti and others describe as the "crown jewel" of any large-scale restoration of the river.
August 25, 2014
The Debate Over CA’s Cap-and-Trade Funds Is Not Over
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti led a group of California mayors on a trip to Sacramento to push for legislation on a number of issues that impact cities before the final, frantic weeks of August that mark the end of the legislative session. On their agenda was getting assurance that cap-and-trade funds would be available to help cities reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years.
August 14, 2014
Editorial: Respect Your Advisory Committee, Build a Safer Hyperion Bridge
There has been quite a bit of proverbial water under the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge. Under a great deal of community displeasure in 2013, the city of Los Angeles set aside an outdated bridge retrofit plan and formed an advisory committee to decide the future of the historic span.
August 12, 2014
Is Reynolds the Antidote to L.A.’s Defeatist Attitude on Transportation?
Should Mayor Eric Garcetti have hired someone with more Los Angeles experience to run Los Angeles' Department of Transportation? With San Francisco's Seleta Reynolds chosen as the incoming department head, there's been a small buzz that only someone with direct experience with our region can handle making L.A. a better place to live. It has to be someone with local experience, they say.
July 22, 2014
What World Cup Soccer Tells Us About Using Public Space in Los Angeles
I assume that most Streetsblog readers who have any interest in sports turn elsewhere for insightful sports coverage. We barely cover competitive bike racing here. I don't claim much in the way of sport expertise, nonetheless, as a somewhat-closeted soccer fan, I am going to try my hand at writing about the World Cup Football. It's not Football in the American sense though, it is, of course, Soccer.
June 23, 2014