Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Measure R

Measure R 2 (or 2.1) Season Is Underway

By Damien Newton | Oct 8, 2015 | 10 Comments

Yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 767 authorizing Metro to place a sales tax on a future ballot to fund transportation growth.The ballot measure would likely appear on the 2016 fall ballot, along with the presidential race, Congressional races and a variety of local races. Within minutes of the signing, Move L.A. released a […]

Coalition Calls For 10 Percent of Future L.A. Sales Tax To Go To Walk-Bike

By Joe Linton | May 14, 2015 | 1 Comment

There is a new twist in the path to a 2016 Los Angeles County transportation sales tax measure, tentatively being called “Measure R2.” Investing in Place, a new policy-based organization that has examined transportation sales taxes throughout the state, just held its own conference with a coalition of more than thirty community based partner organizations. The purpose of the […]

Eyes on the 2016 Transportation Measure: R2 Could Be Two Ballot Measures

By Joe Linton | May 7, 2015 | 7 Comments

There is a new chart out that shows some of what a possible new Metro sales tax, “Measure R2” might look like. As outlined in this earlier article, the sales tax would be put to the voters in the presidential election in late 2016, but the political process shaping the proposal is happening right now. If […]

The Timeline for Metro’s November 2016 Transportation Sales Tax Measure

By Joe Linton | Apr 28, 2015 | 5 Comments

There is a lot of discussion these days about a potential ballot measure for a new sales tax to fund transportation projects and programs for Los Angeles County. The non-profit Move L.A. has dubbed the future tax “Measure R2,” after the successful 2008 Measure R half-cent sales tax. Move L.A. first offered their “straw man” proposal […]

The 710 and Measure R2: Can Los Angeles Build Transit and Beat Its Addiction to Asphalt?

By Roger Rudick | Apr 22, 2015 | 33 Comments

“We have to build an army of people who are willing to say ‘enough is enough,’” said Mayor Eric Garcetti at Wednesday’s MoveLA conference at Union Station, speaking of the region’s traffic and pollution problems. He was there, along with hundreds of other county and city leaders, drumming up support for Measure R2, a proposed […]

Move L.A.’s South L.A. Forum Asks if Transit Can Deliver Shared Prosperity

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jan 27, 2015 | 7 Comments

Riding my bike the 15 miles between my apartment and a Move L.A. forum on the future of transit at Southwest College on a dreary Saturday morning while battling the tail end of a stubborn respiratory infection was not among the brightest ideas I had ever had, I reflected as it began to drizzle and […]

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