Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Santa Monica

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What’s Next for Santa Monica? You Tell Us

By Damien Newton | Aug 7, 2013 | No Comments

This morning, I presented Santa Monica Next to a group of the city’s business leaders at the Chamber of Commerce’s Environmental Affairs Committee. There was a great back and forth of the ideas and opportunities that Next can bring to Santa Monica. I look forward to speaking with them again. However, as we get closer […]

Santa Monicas That Weren’t

By Gary Kavanagh | Aug 2, 2013 | 1 Comment

Santa Monica Causeway at A+D’s Never Built: Los Angeles (Photo: Gary Kavanagh) (Want to see more coverage of Santa Monica? Contribute to our Kick Starter to support the launch of a unique Santa Monica news source, Santa Monica Next.) If you haven’t been to see the A+D (Architecture and Design) Museum exhibit Never Built: Los […]

What’s Next for Santa Monica?

By Damien Newton | Jul 29, 2013 | No Comments

These are exciting times as we watch more and more people back Santa Monica Next at our Kick Starter page. Thanks to a grant this morning from Santa Monica Commissioner Richard McKinnon, we are now at 18% of our goal with 26 days left. We’re on our way, but still need your help to reach […]

Pedicabs Have Been Operating In Santa Monica, World Did Not End, & An EV Paid By Ads Starts Giving Out Free Rides With Marketing Pitches

By Gary Kavanagh | Jul 26, 2013 | 3 Comments

It’s now been more than a week since pedicabs started operating in Santa Monicaand I can confirm that the circles of hell have not come unleashed upon the fair city of Santa Monica. Traffic congestion in popular areas is often slow going, but that has always been the case. So we have Santa Monica, much […]

Failure of L.A. MTA Rapid Buses: Welcome to Rapid 704

By Alexander Friedman | Jul 25, 2013 | 23 Comments

The City of Angels is noticeably transforming. Our once car-centric town is becoming less car-dependent. Public transit is having a comeback. Pedestrian and bicycle infrastructures are improving. New rail lines are being built, existing ones are being extended. Service on trains is increasing. Service on buses is also increasing. …Or is it? Actually, the Rapid […]

Announcing: Santa Monica Next

By Damien Newton | Jul 23, 2013 | No Comments

Streetsblog Los Angeles is excited to announce that sometime in August we will launch a new website for news and views in Santa Monica, Santa Monica Next. We chose the name because it is future focused and open enough to include a range of issues beyond transportation and land use governance that are also future […]

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