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Hi Streetsbloggers,

Two days from today, on April 15 at 6:00 P.M., Los Angeles Streetsblog will take over the Eco-Village for our 2nd Annual Eco-Village Fundraiser.  Since our announcement two weeks ago, a lot of you have volunteered to help make the event a truly memorable one.

Yesterday, the Los Angeles City Council, in a unanimous vote after no debate, approved a ten year contract for Authorized Taxicab Supervision Inc. (ATS) to continue to oversee the 2,300 taxi cabs that access the airport.  The Council's unanimous approval for such a long-term contract is something of a surprise when you consider a 2007 report by then-Comptroller Laura Chick that blasted ATS' management, Los Angeles World Airport's (LAWA) oversight of the existing contract and the opposition of the Taxi Workers' Alliance.

With the White House unwilling to engage on the specifics of how to pay for its $556 billion transportation bill, members of Congress are studying the possibilities. Earlier this month, Senate Budget Committee Chair Kent Conrad (D-ND) asked the Congressional Budget Office to analyze the potential of a vehicle-miles-traveled fee as a fairer way to tax drivers.

Last week, residents throughout Southern California and beyond were shocked to hear about the death of Mark Bixby, who meant so much to so many throughout Long Beach.  He was best known to Streetsbloggers as a bike advocate pushing for bike access to the Desmond Gerald Bridge and a programmer of bike rides and events in Long Beach.

Unless you are a member of the Tea Party or a United Nations historian (or you followed the 2010 Colorado governor's race), you've probably never heard of Agenda 21. But this obscure, 1992 resolution of the United Nations figures prominently in a conspiracy theory that is being used to undermine community planning efforts around the country.

Alert: Readers have probably noticed that an advertisement for the upcoming "virtual meeting" being held by "SR-710 Conversations," the outreach program designed to solicit feedback from the community on how to, in Metro's and Caltrans' words, "address one of the longest-standing transportation issues in our region: the SR-710 gap."

Wilbur Residents Plead for a Safe Street