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Action Alert: Get the Big Blue Bus on Google Transit

By Damien Newton | Sep 30, 2010 | 14 Comments

(Remember I told you we’d be adding new features to the blog? If someone sends me an action alert that can be filled out online, we’ll repost it here. – DN) From the L.A. Subway Blog comes a plea for the Santa Monica Big Blue Bus on Google Transit. As a Westsider who lives next […]

This Weekend is the AltCar Expo in Santa Monica

By Dana Gabbard | Sep 29, 2010 | 6 Comments

Friday and Saturday Oct. 1st & 2nd the 5th annual AltCar Expo will be held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Admission is free. A map of the venue are on the event’s website along with a map showing which Big Blue Bus routes serve the site and a page extolling the free bike valet. […]

Report: Expo Phase II Will Open in 2015

By Damien Newton | Sep 24, 2010 | 9 Comments

Expo supporter Gökhan Esirgen attended a special meeting of the Westside Neighborhood Council last night featuring a presentation by the Expo Construction Authority. Esrigen sent an email afterwards to other supporters and media, which can be read after the jump, but here are some of the highlights of Expo’s presentation. Expo believes they can open […]

SM Planning Commission Hears Arguments for and Against Agensys Bike Path

By Damien Newton | Sep 1, 2010 | 14 Comments

Map by Barbara Fillet showing proposed Agensys route in blue and alternatives in other colors. A heated debate has broken out in Santa Monica casting cyclists and the City Council against a proposed research complex by Agensys, a biomedical engineering company. According to Santa Monica’s much ballyhooed Land Use and Circulation Element (LUCE) to their […]

KTLA Shocked at Suggestion to Bike or Take Transit to Marathon Finish

By Damien Newton | Mar 18, 2010 | 17 Comments

About half way through the above video, KTLA’s Eric Spillman talks to the L.A. Marathon’s Peter Abraham about the transportation plan for people wishing to be at the end of the marathon. Under KTLA’s banner of "Parking Problems," Abraham rationally explains that you should probably bike (free bike valet!) or take transit to the end […]

Expect Plenty of Debate Before Tomorrow’s Vote on the Expo Line FEIR

By Damien Newton | Feb 3, 2010 | 52 Comments

The Source has a full sized map here. Tomorrow’s meeting of the Expo Construction Authority Board of Directors promises to be one of the best-attended, most controversial and longest meeting of the body. The Board is scheduled to vote on approval of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for Phase II of the Expo Line, and […]

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