Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Complete Streets

Community Voices on LA Mobility Plan – LAEV’s Arkin, Bikesanas’ Hernandez

By Joe Linton | Mar 26, 2014 | No Comments

Streetsblog L.A. is continuing coverage of Los Angeles’ draft Mobility Plan 2035. The draft plan is out for comment; SBLA profiled it here. The public is encouraged to submit comments via email, or at a series of Planning Forums taking place through April 12th. The next forum is this Saturday March 29th, 9 a.m. to noon, […]

City Leaders Shepherding MyFigueroa Stakeholders Toward Consensus

By Joe Linton | Mar 26, 2014 | 6 Comments

The long-anticipated MyFigueroa project made another appearance at the Los Angeles City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) committee yesterday. With more than a hundred supporters in attendance, a great deal of staff work, political leadership, and a stakeholder summit process underway, it appears that MyFigueroa may be on track to break ground some […]

If Cleanliness is Next to Godliness, Surely it Should Also be a Component of “Complete”-ness, No?

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 10, 2014 | 4 Comments

As folks were preparing to cut the cake in honor of the Complete Streets Day motion put forth by Councilmember Jose Huizar at City Hall last week, I was getting geared up to volunteer at a high school located in his district, around which many of the streets are decidedly incomplete. I had run into […]

It’s Complete Streets Day!

By Damien Newton | Mar 5, 2014 | 4 Comments

Complete Streets Day has yet to catch on with the kids.Assuming the City Council doesn’t miss perhaps the easiest public relations win since nearly all of them managed to avoid having their pictures taken with Toronto’s crack-smoking, bike hating, misogynistic, homophobic mayor earlier this week, today will be the first official Complete Streets Day in […]

Streets and Creeks, Part 1: Why Fish Need Bicycles

By Joe Linton | Feb 28, 2014 | 3 Comments

Given all the coverage and advisories about Los Angeles receiving heavy rains today, Streetsblog is kicking off an occasional series that makes the connections between rain, streets, creeks and people. There’s an oft-repeated phrase that emerged during the 1970s Feminist Movements that states “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” It’s […]

Consensus Builds for Complete Streets as Metro Plans County-Wide Policy

By Damien Newton | Jan 9, 2014 | 1 Comment

This video is pretty impressive in that it features over half of the Metro Board basically repeating Complete Streets talking points. You can find the rest of the materials from the meeting here. At their Board Meeting this June, Metro will pass a Complete Streets policy in accordance with state law. While the first official […]

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