Today’s Headlines
By Joe Linton | | No Comments- Resurfacing Done, Protected Bike Lanes Coming To San Vicente Blvd (@streetsforall Twitter)
- More On Caltrans Demolishing Encino Pedestrian Bridge (LAT)
- More On Metro October 7 K Line Opening (Sentinel)
- More On SGV Transit Study Update (Urbanize)
- West Covina Approves Uber Program For Seniors (SGV Tribune)
- Carnage: Driver Strikes, Kills Red-Light Running E-Scooter Rider In LB (LB Post)
…Hit-and-Run Driver Injures Bicyclist In Pomona (2UrbanGirls)
…Hit-and-Run Driver Dragged Redondo Beach Cyclist A Half Block (Biking in L.A.) - 5-Story Mixed-Use Under Construction By K Line Leimert Park Station (Urbanize)
- CA Has Highest Vehicular Violation Ticket Fines In US (L.A. Taco)
- Triple-Digit Heatwave Continues In So Cal (LAT, SC Signal)
…LAUSD To Green Schoolyards Against Extreme Heat (LAist)
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This Week In Livable Streets
By Joe Linton | | No Comments
L.A. River path, North San Fernando Valley Transit project, Big Dalton Wash Trail groundbreaking, and more
Eyes On The Street: Newly Protected Bike Lanes on Venice Boulevard
By Joe Linton | | No Comments
LADOT upgraded 0.7 miles of existing Venice Boulevard bike lanes between La Cienega Boulevard and National Boulevard - with plans to extend protection further west this winter
Today’s Headlines
By Joe Linton | | No Comments- Pasadena Reviewing Fate Of Canceled 710 Freeway Housing (Pasadena Now)
- South L.A. Community Plan Update Aims To Shift Development To Commercial Corridors (Urbanize)
- California Ends Parking Mandates At Transit-Rich Locations (LAT)
- Southeast L.A. Toxic Tours Teach About Pollution And Resistance (LAist)
- 8 Places To Bike In Southern California (LAT)
…9 Groups To Bike So Cal With (LAT) - Metro Joint Development Supportive Housing Under Construction In Boyle Heights (Urbanize)
- L.A. Keeps Taking Steps Toward Banning Neighborhood Oil Drilling (Daily News)
- Carnage: Driver Hits, Kills Teen In Quartz Hill (AV Times)
- Ancient Landslide Threatens Amtrak San Clemente Tracks (LAT)
- Caltrans Closing 101 In Encino To Demolish Ped Bridge (Daily News)
- This Weekend Caltrans Closing 91 Freeway For Repairs (LAT)
- So Cal Gas Prices Rising (LAT, KTLA)
- Metro
Halting Freeway WideningTo Celebrate Clean Air Day October 5 (The Source)
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Two Bus Rapid Transit concepts announced from SGV’s Transit Feasibility Study
By Chris Greenspon | | No Comments
An extensive east-west BRT route has been imagined for Valley Blvd, and a shorter one for Rosemead Blvd, but numerous other transit improvements were included too, with connections to colleges and train stations.
Today’s Headlines
By Joe Linton | | No Comments- More On October 7 K/Crenshaw Line Opening (The Source, LAT, Daily News)
- United To House L.A. Could Fund Housing Needs (L.A. Taco)
- County Ends Mask Mandate On Transit (LAT)
- Metro Approves Motion To Advance Bus/BRT/Rail On Vermont (Daily News)
- Advisory Commission Approves Pasadena Ped Plan (Pasadena Now)
- Metrolink Train Stalled Due To Wire Theft (Daily News)
- Carnage: Driver Killed In Two Car Crash In Lancaster (AV Times)
…Two People Killed In Wilmington Car Crash (LAT) - Pasadena Plans Events For 2022 Walktober (Pasadena Now)
- South L.A. TikTok-er Miche1ada Glorifies Bicycling (LAT)
- Angelino Heights Opposes Filming Glorifying Deadly Illegal Street Racing (LAT)
Streetsblog L.A. will be off Monday October 26 for Rosh Hashanah – back on Tuesday October 27
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Save the Date: Streetsie Awards Reception with Supervisor Holly Mitchell on October 12
By Streetsblog | | No Comments
Mark your calendar: Streetsblog will honor Supervisor Holly Mitchell on Wednesday October 12 at at Mercado La Paloma from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Metro Announces Crenshaw/LAX Line Will Open October 7
By Joe Linton | | No Comments
Crenshaw's grand opening will be October 7, 2022, with a noon ribbon-cutting at Leimert Park
Today’s Headlines
By Joe Linton | | No Comments- Takes A Million Dollar Federal Grant To Provide Community College Students Free Metro Rides (The Source)
- L.A. Approves New Advertising and Bus Shelter Contract (LAT)
- Pasadena Begins Process To Heal 710 Freeway Stub Scar (SGV Tribune)
- Preview Of Today’s Metro Board Meeting (The Source)
- Carnage: One Person Killed In 8-Car Crash On 105 Freeway In South L.A. (KTLA5)
- With People Struck By Trains, Metrolink Pushes For Suicide Prevention (Daily News)
- Take Metro’s 710 Freeway Corridor Survey (The Source)
- So Cal Gas Prices Rising (CBS)
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Caltrans Continues Widening, This Time in South San Francisco
By Roger Rudick | | No Comments
Induced demand? Let's just pretend it isn't real, says Caltrans
Highway Boondoggles, Part VII: Oregon’s Abernethy Insanity
By Matthew Casale, James Horrox and Bryn Huxley-Reicher | | No Comments
The final installment of our annual Highway Boondoggles series, with U.S. PIRG., looks at bridge widening that circumvented the National Environmental Policy Act Environmental Impact Assessment process