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California Traffic Control Devices Committee Approves New Design for Spring Street Green Buffered Bike Lane
Last week, the California Traffic Control Devices Committee approved the "compromise" design for the Spring Street Green Buffered Bike Lane. The CTCD was the last body that needed to approve the design.
July 30, 2013
Is the City Cutting Corners on Crosswalk and Bike Lane Installation
Late last year, the City of Los Angeles celebrated the installation of its first Continental Crosswalks in Downtown Los Angeles. These striped crosswalks are more visible than traditional crosswalks and the road markings make clear to motorists that they need to stop behind, not inside, a crosswalk.
July 24, 2013
How Flexible Parking Requirements Spur Economic Development: Lessons from Santa Monica
Editor's Note: Streetsblog Los Angeles founding board member Carter Rubin recently finished his Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree at UCLA. In the following article, he recaps the findings from his capstone “client project” for the Urban Design Studio at the L.A. Department of City Planning. His research adviser was the inimitable parking guru, UCLA Urban Planning Professor Donald Shoup. You can read the report in its entirety here.
July 23, 2013
Streetscast: Audio from the Streetsblog Interview with Mike Bonin
At long last, you can listen to (nearly) the entire interview with City Council Transportation Committee Chair Mike Bonin. Sorry it took so long to get together, my attempts to edit out some of the background noise and make Bonin's voice louder than my own took some time. You can read the two stories generated by the interview, "Mike Bonin Focuses on Listening to Build New Transportation Coalition in Los Angeles" and "Bonin Ready to Work on Transportation Problems Throughout L.A.'s Westside."
July 22, 2013
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