Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Hollywood

Hollywood Goes D.I.Y.

By Stephen Box | | No Comments
Senator Barbara Boxer, in her ULI TOD Summit appearance, invoked the “Rule of 60” when she made the claim that 60% of our economy is made up of small businesses and that 60% of the small businesses in our community are struggling with credit and regulatory issues. Bearing witness to the validity of her claim […]

What Was Missing from Last Week’s T.O.D. Conference

By Stephen Box | | 6 Comments
(Earlier this week, Gloria Ohland reviewed what happend at last week’s T.O.D. Conference hosted by the Urban Land Institute.  Today, Stephen Box takes a different look, and examines what was missing. – DN) Photo: Stephen Box The Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Summit, held last Friday at the Hollywood & Highland’s Renaissance […]

Hollywood Charged Up for E-Bikes

By Enci Box | | 6 Comments
Bechir Blagui, Stephen Box and two iRoll representatives. Last year at the Alternative Car Expo (to most known as the AltCar Expo), there was much excitement about all the motor vehicles that were trying to be sold as the new alternative to cars. Huh? There was a small area in a room off to the […]

TAD or TOD? A Look at the W at Hollywood and Vine

By Damien Newton | | 17 Comments
Nice car advertisement at the billboard. Photo: Erik Oginski/Flickr One of my favorite transportation rhetorical devices has always been the relationship between Transit Oriented Development, or TOD, and its evil brother, Transit Adjacent Development, TAD.  TAD breaks all the rules that make TOD work, but because they can look similar they often get confused.  Unfortunately, […]
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