News & items from other parts of the blog and beyond: Mayor proposes cutting 669 positions to help fill $238 million budget gap; LAPD civilian jobs to take the biggest hit. Daily News Found: Chihuahua/terrier puppy in Echo Park. Lost & Found »
Arches & Swirls, Silver Lake | Photo by Brett Fernau/Flickr Mayor talks up transportation but remains silent on layoffs during State of City speech. Daily News & L.A. Times Boyle Heights’ Los Cinco Puntos wins a spot on the 10 Best Tacos in America li... »
Los Angeles is moving ahead with plans to create two full time "pedestrian coordinator" positions at the Department of Transportation to oversee pedestrian planning efforts around the city. According to an email sent by the DOT, the report approved yes... »
Along with announcing the upcoming CicLAvia on April 15, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaragosa introduced at a press conference in McArthur Park the Spanish-language Bicycle Safety Public Service announcement. The PSA was inspired by the ideas from day... »
The next CicLAvia is a week from Sunday, April 15. Bike Nation will have 100 bikes at CicLAvia for people to borrow for free. That news is old to regular Streetsblog readers by now, but tomorrow morning the media campaign to ready the general public ge... »
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa plans to tour the Dream Center today, the former Queen of Angels Hospital on the border of Echo Park and Silver Lake that has been transformed into housing and shelter for more than 1,200 people, many of them former homeless ... »
Apparently, I should let reader's know April Fool's plans earlier so I can get better graphics. NYT: L.A. Needs to Be More Like New York, Part MMCCCXVIII Toronto Globe and Mail: Toronto Needs to Be More Like L.A. High Speed Rail Gets Shorter Route, Sla... »
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa made transportation the main focus of his second to last State of the City speech Thursday, calling for a ballot measure in November that would turn a temporary 2008 sales tax increase for transportation projects into a perma... »
