Streetsblog

With all the remarkable recent livable streets improvements in New York, it's no surprise the tenth annual Walk21 Conference chose the Big Aplle. Visitors and attendees salivated over new pedestrian infrastructure and public spaces, including tours of the recently opened High Line and a special visit to the soon-to-be-restored High Bridge. Featuring a plethora of speakers, design charrettes and walking workshops, the three-day event drew experts from the UK, Austria, Japan, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Italy, and Australia, among other places.

Much like Stephen Box yesterday, it's kind of a waste of time to write a bio for Joe Linton.  Currently, Linton is an author, artist and urban environmental activist involved mainly in transportation and water issues. He currently works for Cyclists Inciting Change thru Live Exchange C.I.C.L.E. www.cicle.org.

On Thursday, September 24, at 9:46 P.M., Samuel L. Newton was born to this world, increasing the number of Livable Streets Activists in Los Angeles by one.  Samuel weighed in at seven pounds, one ounce and was 21 inches "long."  He was brought home by his parents on Saturday afternoon.  Mother, Father, and child are resting comfortably, if occasionally.

There's a lot of exciting events on this week's calendar, including a public meeting on the "Safe Streets" legislation, Park(ing) Day and a slew of cool bike events this weekend.

Last Sunday's Streetsblog baby shower was a great event.  Thanks to Jessica Meaney and Deborah Murphy for all the work they did preparing the food as well as all my family and friends that were able to attend.  It was a great event, and we decided that we're going to do more of them.  Well, after I get used to not sleeping we'll do more of them.

Well, Labor Day has come and gone which means that you're just so out of fashion if you're wearing white and the Livable Streets Calendar will start to heat back up. It seems that Metro and the City Council take August off, so it's a good time to catch your breath, but now it's time to jump back in!

Streetsblog will not be publishing on Monday, however that doesn't mean you have to wait until Tuesday for your Livable Streets fix. 

As many of you suggested last month, we've created a view of the Los Angeles Streetsblog twitter feed.  This way when I'm "live tweeting" an event, you don't have to open a separate page.

At noon today, LA Streetsblog will provide live coverage of Metro's "Bikes on Trains" meeting via our twitter account at http://twitter.com/lastreetsblog.  This raises the obvious question, is there any value in using twitter to get news out faster than I can on Streetsblog at meetings such as this?  Is this the best way to use twitter?