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Vision Zero Program Struggles To Change L.A. City Priorities
It was never going to be easy to shift Los Angeles decision-makers' attitudes to care more about keeping people alive than about moving cars. Nonetheless, L.A.'s mayor and city council have approved the city's Vision Zero policy, and directed city departments to work together to, over time, reduce L.A. traffic fatalities to zero.
February 8, 2017
Downtown L.A. 7th Street Subway Station Opens New Tunnel to The Bloc
Metro opens its first rail exit into a private development, downtown L.A.'s redeveloped "The Bloc" mall.
February 7, 2017
Metro To Pedestrianize Front Of Union Station, Seeking Input
Metro is planning to pedestrianize the front of Union Station, including narrowing streets and creating pedestrian plazas and walkways.
January 27, 2017
LADOT Releases Vision Zero Action Plan
This morning, the City of Los Angeles' Department of Transportation released its Vision Zero Action Plan.
January 26, 2017
The Women’s March, the “It’s Not Your Time” Doctrine, Urban Planning, and You
The divide between the communities I write about and the people who seek to plan or advocate on their behalf has never felt deeper.
January 26, 2017
Road Pricing Infographic: How Tolling Impacts Various Road Users
Tolls may disproportionately burden the poor, but so other ways of paying for roads.
January 18, 2017
“Bike the Vote” Endorses Challenger Jesse Creed in Bid to Unseat Paul Koretz
(Read the survey responses for Jesse Creed, Paul Koretz and Mark Herd by clicking on their names.)
January 17, 2017
Electric DASH Buses To Begin Service In DTLA Next Week
LADOT announce the first of four 35-foot electric buses that will serve downtown L.A.
January 12, 2017
Congratulations! The 2016 L.A. Streetsie Winners Are…
Congratulations to Councilmembers Bonin, Harris-Dawson, and Huizar, Phil Washington, Bicycle Transit Systems, Zachary Rynew, Luke Klipp, and Bike SGV!
January 10, 2017
US DOT Announces $1.6B For Subway To Beverly Hills, Century City
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx was in Los Angeles this morning to announce $1.6 billion in federal funds for Metro to complete the second phase extending the Purple Line subway to Century City.
January 4, 2017
