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Expo Update: And Twenty Years Later, Ground Was Broken

By Damien Newton | Sep 12, 2011 | 4 Comments

Sometime in the late 1980’s, the last Southern Pacific Freight train rumbled along Exposition Boulevard in West L.A. and Santa Monica before voters passed Proposition C and the newly formed Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority purchased the entire right of way. What followed was two decades of studies, public hearings, lawsuits, Phase I of the Expo Line […]

Best Practices: Bike It! Day in Santa Monica

By Damien Newton | Aug 30, 2011 | 5 Comments

In the fall of 2007, a pair of high school students in Santa Monica High School (Samohi), decided to organize their own Bike to School Day. Somewhere between 80 and 100 high school students took part that first year, which is a respectable number for a student-run event with no budget, but nobody could have0for […]

Weekend Review: Santa Moninca Festival Embraces Biking, Complete Streets

By Carter Rubin | May 10, 2011 | No Comments

On Saturday afternoon, the City of Santa Monica hosted its 20th annual Santa Monica Festival. The wholehearted embrace of biking at this year’s event was, it seemed, both an embodiment of the city’s early successes in encouraging biking and a hopeful harbinger for an even more bike friendly future. To set the stage, I’ll refer […]

A Road Diet for Main Street in Venice? Bike Coalition, LADOT Make the Case Tonight

By Damien Newton | Jan 18, 2011 | 17 Comments

Cyclists riding South on Main Street in Santa Monica are “welcomed” to the City of Los Angeles by a bike lane that disappears at the city border. For no other reason than switching sides of a political boundary, cyclists who were riding in a bike lane in Santa Monica are moved in to the rest […]

Brentwood Community Leaders Wants Out of Bus-Only Lanes

By Damien Newton | Dec 7, 2010 | 37 Comments

It’s official, many Westside neighborhood leaders really don’t want bus-only lanes. After reading a letter from the Brentwood Community Council, which can be read after the jump, exhorting residents to protest the inclusion of Wilshire Bus-Only lanes in the area “West of the 405,” I made the above map. It contains all of the areas […]

Metro Westside Subway Talks Take a Different Turn in Santa Monica

By Carter Rubin | Sep 30, 2010 | 29 Comments

Note: If you choose to share your thoughts at the bottom of this article, I would also urge you to “make it count” and put it on the official public record by sending your comments directly to Metro by October 18th 2010. Instructions on how to comment can be found at the end of the […]

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