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Cartoon Tuesday: Take the Big Blue Bus to the Houston Airport

By Damien Newton | Aug 18, 2009 | 7 Comments

Photo: Russ Jones The Big Blue Bus is proudly sporting ads boasting of a new airport service. The new route provides quite an increase in service coverage for the agency because they aren’t talking about service to the local airport in Santa Monica or to LAX; but service to the airport in Houston. Remarkably this […]

When Santa Monica Takes Traffic Surveys, They Slow Streets Down

By Damien Newton | Aug 18, 2009 | 8 Comments

Photo of Olympic Blvd. in Santa Monica via Friends 4 Expo Recently, the City of Santa Monica completed a series of speed surveys on it’s streets, as required by state law. The result might be a surprise to people that have followed the inability of the City of Los Angeles to maintain lower speed limits […]

City Has a Plan for Expo Bike Path, But What About Complete Streets?

By Damien Newton | May 20, 2009 | 6 Comments

Cyclists on the Expo Exposure Ride take a break in front of Dorsey High. It finally appears as though the Expo Bike Path, the path that is going to run parallel to Phases I and II of the Expo Line is going to be built. After the Expo Construction Authority punted on taking the lead […]

Expo Construction Authority Expected to Pick Final Route Tomorrow

By Damien Newton | Apr 1, 2009 | 11 Comments

Image of Light Rail in Santa Monica via Curbed LA Tomorrow, the Expo Construction Authority will vote on a "Final" route for Phase II of the Expo Line that will undergo an environmental study before final design and construction. The staff has recommended, and the Board will almost assuredly follow their recommendation, that the they […]

Metro Moving Ahead with Bus Expansion

By Damien Newton | Mar 16, 2009 | 10 Comments

Photo: Scott Page via Metro Library/Flickr Despite the elimination of transit subsidies from our Greenhouse-Gas-Battling Governor and the Democratically controlled state legislature, Metro is pushing forward with plans to expand and improve bus service thanks to increased funding from Measure R. A report to the Metro Board’s Measure R committee shows that just because the […]

Santa Monica Physical Mass

By Damien Newton | Oct 31, 2008 | 4 Comments

In the past couple of months the Santa Monica Police Department has cracked down on the monthly Critical Mass rides assigning at least a dozen officers every month to follow cyclists and basically harass them with nuisance tickets. Oftentimes, these tickets are dismissed, and the extra effort costs the SMPD about $3,000 a month. Well […]

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