Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Santa Monica

(This is part II of a two part series on Santa Monica Next. Part I is here. – DN) At the first workshop for the Memorial Park Neighborhood Plan, there was a lot of enthusiasm for the possibility of capping the freeway with a park (from 17th to 14th, although former mayor Mike Feinstein advocated for […]

On Tuesday Night, the Santa Monica City Council approved a motion by a 5-1 vote (Bob Holbrook the dissenting vote and Pam O’Conner absent), to move forward with soliciting request for proposals (“shopping” as city attorney Moutrie referred to it), for a city-wide bike share system. The Council also voted to seek an extension to timed […]

This Sunday was the city’s Pop-Up MANGo event to demo and solicit input for possible neighborhood greenway proposals in the Michigan Ave. corridor of the Pico Neighborhood. It was well attended throughout the 11-3 event, by supporters, by detractors of certain ideas under consideration, and locals wanting to check out the ideas and give input. […]

Riders listen to Frank Gruber as planes and jets idled and landed. All images via Bryan “Orange” Baretta/Santa Monica Spoke. For more pics from the ride, click here. By design and by coincidence, it was a day of contrasts. On one hand, you have a group of roughly fifty advocates riding bicycles, many of whom […]

After 3 years in the works and dozens of public workshops and meetings before commissions and the council, the Bergamot Area Plan has finally passed Tuesday night (really Wednesday morning) with a 6-1 vote. The vote both approves the plan (which will take effect in October), and clarifying that the plan takes the place of […]