Recent Streetsblog LA posts about West LA

Bus-Only Lane for Wilshire Boulevard Still Years Away

By Damien Newton | Nov 13, 2008 | 36 Comments

Last night Metro and LADOT updated bus riders and travelers along the Wilshire corridor of their efforts to bring Bus Rapid Transit to Los Angeles’ West Side. If everything goes well, the project could enter its design stage in about a year. In the meantime the agencies will be placing the project under an environmental […]

Rosendahl Announces Meeting on Mandeville Road Bike Issues

By Damien Newton | Jul 9, 2008 | 7 Comments

I’ll have a full report on the Transportation Committee’s big bike meeting earlier today, but one piece of quick news that doesn’t require an in-depth report is an announcement by Councilman Bill Rosendahl that he will be holding a community meeting about the state of cycling within Mandeville Canyon Road. The Councilmember hopes to bring […]

Riding the Westside with Venice Critical Mass

By Damien Newton | Jun 30, 2008 | 4 Comments

(Editor’s note: this is third in a monthly series of ride reports on Critical Mass from throughout the region. In April it I rode Pasadena. In May, Los Angeles. This month was going to be Costa Mesa, but I decided to put it off until the fall so instead it’s the nascent Venice Critical Mass.) […]

New Group Calls for Greenway Along Proposed Expo Line

By Damien Newton | Jun 20, 2008 | 4 Comments

A rendering of the Proposed Greenway Do you have trouble keeping all of the organizations that are lobbying around the Expo Line straight from one another? After all, there’s Fix Expo, Build Expo, Friends 4 Expo, Light Rail for Cheviot, and Neighbors for Smart Transit…and these are just the groups I can think of off […]

Westsiders Vent at Last Night’s Expo Meeting

By Damien Newton | Jun 10, 2008 | 10 Comments

Last night the Expo Construction Authority held a community meeting in the Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services Gymnasium, right in the heart of a community that has historically been opposed to construction of Phase II of the Expo Line. As expected, it was hard to find a supporter of extending light rail […]

Legislators Pushing for Green Line Extension to LAX

By Damien Newton | Apr 17, 2008 | 2 Comments

Tired of waiting for Metro to get serious about building an extension of the Green Line to LAX, a group of Westside politicians is looking to take the decision making authority on the extension out of Metro’s hands. Their efforts took a big step forward late Tuesday night when the California State Senate heard and […]

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