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Bonin Ready to Work on Transportation Problems Throughout L.A.’s Westside
(Editor’s note: We’re breaking out interview with new Los Angeles City Council Transportation Committee Chair Mike Bonin into three parts. Yesterday focused on his role as Chair. Today focuses on local issues on the Westside’s CD 11. Monday we will post the unedited audio from the interview. Also, since we discuss the Expo Bikeway, we should note that I am the CD 11 representative to the Expo Bicycle Advisory Committee.)
July 19, 2013
Meet Garcetti’s New Team on the Metro Board of Directors: Bonin, Krekorian and Dupont-Walker
Earlier today, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced his three appointees to the Metro Board of Directors. The Mayor's Office controls four of the thirteen appointments to the body (Garcetti being the first himself.) The appointments include two City Council Members: Mike Bonin and Paul Krekorian, as well as Jackie Dupont-Walker, a community activist from the West Adams Neighborhood in South Los Angeles.
July 18, 2013
Mike Bonin Focuses on Listening to Build New Transportation Consensus in Los Angeles
(Editor's note: We're breaking out interview with new Los Angeles City Council Transportation Committee Chair Mike Bonin into three parts. Today will focus on his role as Chair. Tomorrow will focus on local issues on the Westside's CD 11. Monday we will post the unedited audio from the interview.)
July 18, 2013
Send Us Your Questions for City Council Transportation Committee Chair Mike Bonin
Next Tuesday morning, I'll be joining Mike Bonin for a bus ride from the Westside to City Hall for Streetsblog's first interview with the new City Council Transportation Committee Chair. If you have any questions you'd like us to ask him, leave them in the comments section and we'll work them in.
July 3, 2013
It Might be Hot, but Antonovich Wants It HOTter on the Westside
Just when you thought the I-405 Widening Project through the Sepulveda Pass couldn't get less popular.
July 1, 2013
Why You Should Be Angry About CA’s “Highest Gas Tax in the Country”
I know it's tempting to gloat.
July 1, 2013
Does the Crenshaw Subway Coalition Have Enough Juice to Alter Metro’s Crenshaw Plans Again?
Yesterday, the Metro Board of Directors awarded the nearly $1.3 billion construction contract for the Crenshaw Line to Walsh/Shea Corridors Construction.
June 28, 2013
Metro Puts $2 Million Behind Villaraigosa Plan to Bring “CicLAvia” Everywhere
We knew Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa liked CicLAvia. Upon returning from Copenhagen in 2009, he vowed that Los Angeles would have its own "open street festival."
June 27, 2013
Streetsblog Transition Team: The First 100 Days
Garcetti layed out his own transportation agenda in our interview series during the primaries.
June 27, 2013