Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transit Advocacy

Winning Arguments with Your Family: Don’t Fall for the Traffic Trap

By Damien Newton | Nov 24, 2015 | 5 Comments

Last week, the Los Angeles Times published a disastrously titled piece entitled “L.A. Expo Line hasn’t reduced congestion as promised, a study finds.” The article is based on a study by the University of Southern California that used traffic monitors to gauge how many cars are driving on the freeway and arterial streets parallel to the […]

Lessons From UCLA’s TransportationCamp

By Jason Islas and Joe Linton | Oct 6, 2015 | 2 Comments

What do you get when dozens of transportation professionals, technologists, and others interested in improving urban transportation networks all in one room at UCLA on a Saturday morning? The answer is Los Angeles’ very first TransportationCamp. While there were no bonfires or arts and crafts, Saturday’s event was different than your usual gathering of transportation […]

How Can We Invest in Infrastructure Without Raising Taxes?

By Odysseus Bostick | Oct 28, 2014 | 14 Comments

(Odysseus Bostick is a Los Angeles teacher and former candidate for the Los Angeles City Council. He writes The Bostick Report for CityWatch.) Our roads are swiss cheese, our sidewalks are like a broken fault line, our bridges are sagging, and our cars are still the most convenient way to get through the mess. We’ve […]

CA Transportation Choices Summit Tackles Policy Issues

By Melanie Curry | Apr 24, 2014 | 14 Comments

The California Transportation Choices Summit, held in Sacramento this week, was an opportunity for sustainable transportation and public health advocates to spend the day learning about current state policies and legislation in the works to change them. This year’s summit was titled “2014: A Year of Opportunity.” The “opportunity” comes in the form of new funds from […]

Metro’s “Short Range Transportation Plan” Meetings Start Today

By Dana Gabbard | Apr 23, 2014 | 7 Comments

Starting this evening and continuing during the next two weeks Metro is holding community meetings seeking input on its Draft 2014 Short Range Transportation Plan and the companion technical document. Metro describes the plan thusly: … a ten-year action plan that guides our programs and projects through 2024. It advances us towards the long-term goals […]

How Liberating Is Your Transit System? An Interview With Jarrett Walker

By Ben Fried | Jan 17, 2014 | No Comments

I first became aware of Jarrett Walker’s work through his blog, Human Transit, a few years ago. Here was someone writing about transit in a completely refreshing way, framing questions not in terms of mode or technology but through the prism of values and desires. To call Walker’s site a transit blog doesn’t quite do […]

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