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Transit Vote 2016: California’s Transportation Funding Ballot Initiatives
Los Angeles County’s Measure M would add 100 miles of rail and 65 miles of BRT. Maps by Adam Linder We continue our overview of what’s at stake in the big transit ballot initiatives next week with a...
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L.A. Mobility Advocates Protest Lack of Progress
The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) is hosting its Designing Cities 2018 conference in downtown L.A. this week. This morning, Los Angeles City Mayor Eric Garcetti...
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Santa Monica Installs In-Street E-Scooter Parking Corrals
Last week Santa Monica’s City Manager Rick Cole tweeted a photo of the city’s newly installed first in-street e-scooter drop zone. In-street parking corrals have been recommended as a solution for...
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Trump Wants California’s High-Speed Rail Money
The Trump Administration is trying to cut off funds for California High-Speed Rail. Yesterday, in a letter to the California HSR Authority and Governor Gavin Newsom, the Federal Railroad Administration...
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Metro Report: Understanding How Women Travel
Metro recently released a report on challenges faced by its women riders, Understanding How Women Travel. It runs to 169 pages, with an executive summary alone of 17 pages. There is also a 7-page...
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Caltrans Cancels High Desert Freeway Project
The freeway would have resulted in four million additional miles being driven every day.
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L.A. May Eliminate Parking Requirements Downtown
Today, the L.A. City Planning Department (DCP) released its full draft Downtown Community Plan, called DTLA 2040. Once approved, the plan would eliminate parking requirements for all of downtown Los...
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High-Speed Rail Will Connect to L.A. County
A report due out this week describes how high-speed rail under construction in California's Central Valley will connect to Palmdale, in north Los Angeles County. The California High-Speed Rail...
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Before You Vote This Super Tuesday, Read This Cartoon
Editor’s Note: A version of this post originally appeared on Streetsblog LA. For your Election Day funnies, let’s revisit a classic Boston cartoon about where the real socialism lies in these United...
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Yes, You Can Bike During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Coronavirus has very much arrived in Southern California. Infections and deaths are growing. Schools are closing. Events are canceled. All Angelenos need to take precautions to “flatten the curve.”...
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Operation Gridlock Protest Brings Around 60 Drivers to Downtown L.A.
A few dozen right wing “Operation Gridlock” protestors descended on Downtown Los Angeles around 11 a.m. today, honking, waving American flags, and screaming, “Give me liberty or give me death” into...
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L.A. Cyclists Ride for Justice for George Floyd
This article supported by Los Angeles Bicycle Attorney as part of a general sponsorship package. All opinions in the article are that of the author, and do not necessarily reflect those of LABA. Click...
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Metro CEO Phil Washington Named To Biden Transition Team
President-elect Joe Biden has named L.A. Metro CEO Phil Washington as the Team Lead for the transition’s Agency Review Team in charge of the Department of Transportation, National Transportation...
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Interview: California Freeway Expansion Projects Induce Travel, and...
Last year, three UC Davis scholars published a paper, titled Induced Vehicle Travel in the Environmental Review Process, which explored how several California freeway expansion project analyses failed...
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L.A. Times Analysis Shows Racist Harms of Freeway Projects
This week the Los Angeles Times published a three-article series on freeway expansion’s present and past harms to communities of color. The Times examined three decades of freeway expansion projects in...
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L.A. City Council Transportation Committee Approves Unprecedented Speed Limit...
This afternoon, the L.A. City Council Transportation Committee voted to approve 177 miles of speed limit reductions on city streets. See last week’s SBLA coverage for broader background on the state...
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Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti Approves 177 Miles of Speed Limit Reductions
Earlier today, Mayor Eric Garcetti signed a new ordinance [council file 21-1223] that reduces speed limits on 177 miles of L.A. City streets. In his signing ceremony (broadcast via Twitter) Garcetti...
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Ghost Train Podcast Explores Denver’s Troubled Rail Expansion, with Lessons...
Colorado Public Radio recently published its four-part Ghost Train podcast series, billed as “the story of how one polluted, traffic-choked city went all in on trains, and what happened when that plan...
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Crosswalk Collective L.A. Posts Instructions for DIY Crosswalks
The Crosswalk Collective L.A. has posted its “How to Paint a Crosswalk” instructions showing a way that ordinary folks can go about adding crosswalks where cities have failed to. The “for educational...
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Meet The K: New Light Rail Line Opens in Los Angeles
Today, Metro opened its newest light rail line to the public: the 8.5-mile $2 billion K Line, also known as the Crenshaw/LAX Line. In celebration, rides are free on the entire Metro system all weekend....
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