Recent Streetsblog LA posts about SCAG

Regional Agencies Taking Slow Walk Towards Sustainable Funding

By Damien Newton | Nov 9, 2011 | 1 Comment

In recent weeks, regional transportation agencies in Southern California have made some slow moves towards embracing a more sustainable transportation network throughout the Southland. Local “Metropolitan Planning Organization” the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) is poised to pass a long term plan that would dramatically increase bicycle and pedestrian funding while its sister agency […]

How Los Angeles Advocates Are Rallying for Regional Funding Reform

By Damien Newton | Mar 4, 2011 | No Comments

Yesterday, Streetsblog looked at the funding differences in the long range planning in the San Diego County Region as compared to the “SCAG 6-County Mega-Region” that includes Los Angeles. But instead of looking at the success in San Diego and going “why not us,” a group of advocates, notably Gloria Ohland and Beth Steckler at […]

San Diego County Sets Aside $2.5 BILLION for Bicycles and Pedestrians

By Damien Newton | Mar 3, 2011 | 3 Comments

Earlier this week, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported that the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) allocated $2.58 billion of their thirty year plan for bicycling and pedestrian infrastructure improvements. If that seems like a big number, it is. While Los Angeles has been celebrating it’s Bike Plan, and the Measure R set-aside that’s going […]

SCAG Opens “Bike-Ped Wiki”

By Damien Newton | Oct 8, 2010 | 2 Comments

The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) launched what they’re billing a “Bike-Ped Wiki” to help increase the number and quality of public comments for their upcoming Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP). Unlike some of the Wiki efforts we’ve seen in the past such as I Bike U, which has gone to the digital graveyard, […]

CARB Adopts Aggressive Targets to Meet State Greenhouse Gas Laws

By Damien Newton | Sep 27, 2010 | 6 Comments

Last Thursday, the California Air Resource Board (CARB) voted unanimously to adopt ambitious targets for greenhouse gas reductions statewide by 2020 and 2035. Thursday’s vote, hours after the Metro Board of Directors voted to endorse high standards for the Southland, will compel Municipal Planning Organizations (MPO’s) to create development and transportation plans that will encourage […]

SCAG Takes a Pass on History, Moves Forward with Lower GHG Reductions

By Damien Newton | Sep 3, 2010 | 12 Comments

Photo of Riverside via Miizzard/Flickr. Last May, I had the chance to sit down with Michael Woo, the former Los Angeles City Councilman and Mayoral Candidate, urban planner, USC Professor and Climate Change activist. Woo expressed hope that the Southern California Association of Governments would set the bar for other regions when deciding how to […]

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