The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog L.A.
Streetsblog mourns the passing of Donald Shoup, the UCLA professor whose groundbreaking work shed light on the much overlooked impacts of parking. Shoup inspired many people, including Streetsblog editors, to understand the ways that parking policy shapes cities. Shoup was the world’s preeminent authority on parking; he was also funny, sweet, incisive, cantankerous, and generous with his time. Read Shoup’s 800-page treatise The High Cost of Free Parking, and you will see streets in new ways.
It’s also a big week for Measure HLA, with two different Wednesday meetings on flawed city department proposals that could shape the city’s response to the voter-approved mandate for bus, walk, and bike improvements. See today’s weekly SBLA calendar for meeting details – and last week’s explainers on the proposed draft implementation ordinance and standard elements.
$2000 e-bike vouchers mean “hundreds of households who have the option to load up their kids and groceries on a cargo bike… without sitting in traffic and burning gas.” Applicants must be at least 18 and live in the San Gabriel Valley.
Faced with a ~$30M budget shortfall, Metrolink has extended temporary service cuts indefinitely and is “evaluating more significant service reductions and a potential fare increase that could take effect as early as October”
$2000 e-bike vouchers mean “hundreds of households who have the option to load up their kids and groceries on a cargo bike… without sitting in traffic and burning gas.” Applicants must be at least 18 and live in the San Gabriel Valley.
CicLAvia, Pasadena, East L.A., budget, Griffith Park, adaptive resuse, Santa Clarita, car-nage, and more
Faced with a ~$30M budget shortfall, Metrolink has extended temporary service cuts indefinitely and is “evaluating more significant service reductions and a potential fare increase that could take effect as early as October”
Metro D Line, Pomona, Pasadena, downtown L.A., Long Beach, car-nage, and more
