L.A. City Public Works Committee Approves Proposed Regulations for E-Scooters, Bike-Share
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Rules for shared e-scooters, e-bikes, dockless bike-share next go to the full city council
Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Joe Buscaino
LA City Council Gets Tough on Hit-and-Run Crimes: New Rewards and Alerts
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Today, the Los Angeles City Council voted to approve two new city programs that aim to stem the tide of hit-and-run crimes. According to Los Angeles City Councilmember Mitch Englander, hit-and-run crashes killed 27 people in Los Angeles in 2014, and 80 percent of recent hit-and-run crimes remain unsolved. The city’s hit-and-run efforts were previewed […]
Garcetti, City Leaders, Promise Hundreds of Repaired Streets Every Year
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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. “All told, we are going to pay another 200 miles […]
Location, Location, Location: Contested Public Space Means Moving Watts School Could Deny Some Education
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“They say they care about our safety, but they’re putting us in harm’s way!” It is a refrain I’ve heard several times over the last month from students of INSPIRE Research Academy, a state-subsidized continuation school based at YO! Watts that offers 17-24-year-olds a free education and a rare second chance to get their high […]
City Council approves a motion to study the feasibility of fixing LA’s streets in our lifetime
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In the end the vote, as usual, was unanimous. The Los Angeles City Council voted 15 to 0 this morning, not to fix the city’s crumbling streets, but to study how to fix them. And more importantly, how to pay for it. The vote came on a proposal from Council Members Joe Buscaino and Mitch […]
Livability Advocates Dominate #RoadBond Hearing, Press Ignores
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On Wednesday, the City Council Public Works and Gang Reduction Committee ordered city staff to study funding options for a bond proposal to fix city streets. You may remember Council Members Joe Buscaino, who happens to chair the Public Works and Gang Reduction Committee, and Mitch Englander proposed a property tax increase to fund a […]