Cartoon Tuesday
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Metro Announces It Will No Longer Widen Freeways, Doubles Down on Freeway “Modernization”
This morning, April 1 (wink), Metro leaders announced that the agency will no longer be spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year to widen highways throughout L.A. County
April 1, 2022
Metro Announces It Will Triple Bus Service Immediately Soon
"Metro can only spend so much money on freeway-widening, park-and-ride, micro-transit, monorails, and police - at some point the conversation has to turn to funding bus service."
April 1, 2021
Cartoon Tuesday: Socialism For Drivers
Pundits are critical of candidates for advocating socialism, but the U.S. has always solved a lot of issues using collective solutions: mail, defense, law enforcement, and yes - transportation
March 3, 2020
Cartoon Tuesday: Fractured Rib Funnies
SBLA editor Joe Linton crashed off his bicycle, fracturing a rib.
March 12, 2019
The Onion Savages L.A.’s Unsafe Streets
Is L.A. really adding space for bicyclists on L.A. streets? Do you believe The Onion?
December 7, 2018
Cartoon Tuesday: What a Green Parking Garage Looks Like
Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz has designed a truly green parking structure
July 18, 2017
Cartoon Tuesday – Vision Zero Comics, No. 2 “Speed Demon”
This isn't the most insightful thing I've drawn, but here's the second installment of Vision Zero Comics. SBLA readers may recall that I drew the initial installment of Vision Zero Comics back in 2015. This June 2016 installment basically parrots a chart (below) from the city of Los Angeles' excellent Vision Zero booklet [PDF]. My only addition was to try to convey speed through my messy and messier lines.
August 2, 2016
Garcetti Announces “Great Streets” to Be Named After Current Councilmembers
(UPDATE 2:03 p.m.: Yes, this is an April Fool's story. No streets, Great or otherwise, were harmed in the writing of this satire. - DN)
April 1, 2016
Cartoon Tuesday: Joe’s Parking and Vision Zero Comics
It's a bit of shameless self-promotion, but I wanted to share of pair of comics pages that I drew. These comment on issues that many Streetsblog L.A. readers care about: parking and Vision Zero. I think that parking, of all the issues that dramatically affect cities, is highly misunderstood, and I wanted to see if I could use a fun visual medium to begin to scratch the surface of the insights I've learned from parking expert Donald Shoup.
February 16, 2016
Cartoon Tuesday: Calvin and Hobbes Turn 30
Last week, TIME Magazine reported that Calvin and Hobbes was first published thirty years ago this month. For a lot of people my age, the story of a precocious and imaginative young boy and his stuffed tiger/best friend was a daily treat. For me, it was how I spent my last couple of minutes before the school bus pulled up.
November 24, 2015