Westside Subway! (LAT,, ABC 7, CBS 2, NBC 4, LAT Again) Westside SUBWAY, WESTSIDE SUBWAY! (Curbed, KPCC, Patch, HuffPo) WESTSIDESUBWAYWESTSIDESUBWAYWESTSIDESUBWAY!!!! (The Source, LAist) Regional Connector (The Source, Curbed, Small Part of Other Artic... »
The subway extension route approved today covers this route. The rest of the subway will have to wait for the May, June or even July meeting. Click on the image for a larger view. The first of several major issue scheduled to be addressed by the Metro ... »
As debate continues at Metro headquarters over the Westside Subway, the Parent-Teacher Association of the Beverly Hills High School released the above video on YouTube. The video graphically illustrates their concerns. Sometimes a video is so clear tha... »
Tuesday – The Transit Coalition holds their monthly meeting at Metro Headquarters. Get the details on guest speakers and food order arrangements and all the rest of the news that you need right here. Wednesday – If you want to help us with our shoot o... »
Villaraigosa, Antonovich, and Frank McCourt in the Dodger Shuttle. For the past two seasons, Antonovich has found the funds to keep the shuttle running. Photo:Mike Antonovich/Flickr Yesterday, at a meeting of the Metro Board of Directors Construction C... »
(With apologies to Tanya Snyder…) Public radio interrupts programming with its pledge drives. The Girl Scouts’ fundraising cookie sales clog your arteries and make you fat. Here at Streetsblog, we don’t do either. We just put up a post once in a while ... »
Mike Antonovich Has Lost His Mind. Really? Gang Rape? (City Maven via LA Weekly) Here’s the Audio of Antonovich Comparing a Transit Tax to Sexual Violence (KNX 1070) L.A. Observed Shows How To Criticize a Proposal Without Taking About Gang Rape Bever... »
Los Angeles, 1987. Photo:Scribas.com Planners who traveled to Los Angeles over the past four days to attend the American Planning Association’s National Planning Conference were greeted by a very different L.A. than the one they visited at the last APA... »
Villaraigosa Stakes Legacy on Transit Expansion (LAT, Daily News) Is This the Mayor’s Last Shot at Lasting Legacy? (LAT) LAYOFFS? What are we talking about? LAYOFFS? (LAT) New Renderings for Farmer’s Field Released (View from a Loft) Westside Subway ... »
Following the surprise announcement last Sunday that Bike Nation and the City of Los Angeles were embarking on a public-private partnership to bring a 4,000 bike bike share system to Los Angeles, people have had a lot of questions. Who is Bike Nation? ... »
A May 2008 report by Metro looking at possible alternatives to a subway looked at an aerial design for soem stations. Read the powerpoint, here. On Friday night, I received two emails as an online subscriber to the Beverly Hills Courier concerning the ... »
How can CicLAvia help the city get moving on fully implementing the Bike Plan? Photo:Josef/Flying Pigeon The week after Ciclavia I find it hard to settle my mind from the sights and sounds and motion of magical urbanism on the streets of Los Angeles. ... »
CicLAvia! (LAT, Patch, KPCC, ABC 7, The Source) Bike Share! (LAist, Daily News, Neon Tommy, CBS 2, Yo Venice, The Source) Glendale, Burbank, Want in on CicLAvia (Leader) Metrolink Fail, Suburban Rail Service Runs Out of Room for Bikes (LAT) Metro Consi... »
Congratulations to Culver City Council Member Elect and Bike Activist Meghan Sahli-Wells (Patch) Metro and Consultants: Bev. Hills Study Saying Their Study Was Flawed Was Also Flawed (The Source) BH Courier: Metro Study a “Slap in the Face to Beverly H... »
We’re going to experiment in the coming weeks with a new weekly series highlighting a couple of stories that we weren’t able to build into full Streetsblog stories, but deserve more than just a mention in Today’s Headlines. Wal Mart Traffic Study - A l... »
