Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Joe Buscaino

Garcetti Funds Extension of Roomkey for 1,200 Rooms, but Council Wants City to Think Bigger

By Damien Newton | Feb 11, 2021 | No Comments

Bonin: "They say where there's a will there's a way; In this case, there has to be a way." Raman: "We need to be ambitious; I've heard the word 'hundreds' but we need be hearing 'thousands' [of new rooms to be added to Roomkey]."

Bird scooters should have approved city regulations soon. Image via Facebook

L.A. City Public Works Committee Approves Proposed Regulations for E-Scooters, Bike-Share

By Joe Linton | Aug 15, 2018 | 1 Comment

Rules for shared e-scooters, e-bikes, dockless bike-share next go to the full city council

LA City Council Gets Tough on Hit-and-Run Crimes: New Rewards and Alerts

By Joe Linton | Feb 10, 2015 | 8 Comments

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

By Damien Newton | Nov 12, 2014 | 8 Comments

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

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 14, 2014 | 3 Comments

“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

By Ted Rogers | Aug 21, 2013 | 5 Comments

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 […]

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