Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Election 2013

L.A. City Already Looking At How To Carve Up $4B Local Return

By Joe Linton | May 26, 2016 | No Comments

Metro has not yet decided whether to have a Measure R2 sales tax on the November ballot; that will come next month. The voting public has not yet passed the measure by two-thirds; that would hopefully come in November. But the L.A. City Council is already trying to decide how to spend their chunk of the […]

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 […]

If A Tree Falls In A #RoadBond, Do Editorial Writers Hear?

By Joe Linton | Apr 2, 2014 | 1 Comment

Today’s Los Angeles Times has two editorials that don’t quite go together. In the editorial South L.A. needs trees, the Times reviews tree removal underway for Metro’s Crenshaw rail line. Almost channeling their inner Lorax, the Times lauds the city and county’s “ambitious post-construction plans” for “planting twice as many trees as they remove, and adding […]

Livability Advocates Dominate #RoadBond Hearing, Press Ignores

By Damien Newton | Aug 9, 2013 | No Comments

On Wednesday, the City Council Public Works and Gang Reduction Committee ordered city staff to study funding options for a bond proposal to fix city streets. You may remember Council Members Joe Buscaino, who happens to chair the Public Works and Gang Reduction Committee, and Mitch Englander proposed a property tax increase to fund a […]

A Livable Streets Look at Tomorrow’s Council Election in CD6 (with video)

By Matthew Tinoco | Jul 22, 2013 | 3 Comments

(Matt Tinoco’s been interning with us this summer, mostly producing and booking the Streetsblog Summer Series of broadcasts on our YouTube channel, SoCalStreets Tube. We’re also sharing him with LAist, where he’s been writing a series on “Metro Adventures.” Matt is attending USC, and has a bright future. We’re happy to have his help this […]

Reminder, We Are Live at 2 with Nury Martinez, Candidate for CD 6 City Council

By Damien Newton | Jul 18, 2013 | 1 Comment

Just a reminder that we will be broadcasting an interview with CD6 City Council Candidate Nury Martinez live on our YouTube Channel, SoCal StreetsTube, today at 2 pm. The broadcast will be archived there and reposted on Streetsblog LITE. The primary for the open seat was held the same day as the Mayoral election and […]

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