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Editorial: Five Changes To Make A Better Los Angeles Mobility Plan
It's time to roll up your sleeves and finalize your comment submissions for Los Angeles City's draft Mobility Plan. To learn about the plan, read through plenty of SBLA coverage and review source documents at the project website. Perhaps also read Flying Pigeon's scathing critique of the plan as a "morally bankrupt symbol of a crumbling society."
May 7, 2014
If A Tree Falls In A #RoadBond, Do Editorial Writers Hear?
Today's Los Angeles Times has two editorials that don't quite go together.
April 2, 2014
In a Low Key Piece, the L.A. Times Shows How It’s Done When It Comes to Discussing Traffic Enforcement
Today, the Los Angeles Times published its own opinion piece by Robert Greene of the #roadsharela team discussing the reality that drivers are too often excused for behavior that endangers or even kills cyclists and pedestrians. While Greene's piece doesn't offer prescriptions or bash the police and prosecutors for their boredom whenever a person is killed in the street by a vehicle.
November 13, 2013
CEQA Opponents Incorrectly Point to Expo Lawsuit as Reason to Weaken CEQA
Over the past week, I've been studying CEQA and the politics behind the various reform efforts to better report on what's happening in Sacramento as Senator Darrell Steinberg's SB 731 moves through the legislature. I've stumbled on some amazing arguments over that time, but none are quite as amazing as the one made by economist John Husing of Economics and Politics Inc. on behalf of the pro-business CEQA Working Group.
September 11, 2013
The Los Angeles Times Wonders What Can Be Done About Freeway Pollution
The Los Angeles Times published a remarkable editorial today questioning why so little is done about the public health crisis caused by Southern California's reliance on freeway travel. However, either because of confusion or lack of will, the editorial stops short of proposing any real solutions to the crisis. It merely note it exists.
September 3, 2013
The Daily News Does It Again: Editorial Recognizes Dense Areas Need Progressive Planning
The Daily News Editorial Board has been on a role recently. The paper, which is the second largest daily newspaper in Los Angeles behind the Los Angeles Times but well ahead of the Daily Breeze or The Wave papers, is undergoing a livable streets renaissance in its editorial page.
March 29, 2012
Daily News: More Measure R Funds for Bikeways
The Daily News, which still appears to be the conservative alternative to the Los Angeles Times in many respects, published an editorial earlier today calling on the L.A. County Board of Supervisors to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to bicycle planning. The message: it's not enough just to pass a bike plan, how about spending some of your own transportation dollars to make it a reality.
March 1, 2012
Welcome to L.A. Mr. President, Daily News Offers Mixed, Mostly Positive, Message on Transportation
By now, Air Force One is probably on its way to Los Angeles with President Obama, taking a tough line on transportation, onboard. As the debate on how
February 15, 2012
LAT to GOP: Stop Playing Games With Transportation Funds
The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board weighs in on the House Republican plan to reauthorize the transportation bill. If it's possible, the Times sounds even less impressed with the Republicans efforts to eliminate Safe Routes to Schools funding, decimate transit funding, eliminate programs for bicycle and pedestrian funding and pay for an expanded highway program by increasing opportunities to drill for oil.
February 3, 2012
Sounding Like Streetsblog, the Times Calls for Leadership in Wilshire BOL Debate
In an editorial in today's paper, the Los Angeles Times comes out swinging while calling on Council Man Bill Rosendahl and County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky to show some leadership in the ongoing debate over the Wilshire Bus Only Lanes Controversy.
February 4, 2011