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Streetcar Workshops Come to Los Angeles Next Week

By Damien Newton | May 15, 2008 | 4 Comments

Many of the Workshops at Next Week’s Conference Were Based on the Book Street Smart One week from today, the Seaside Institute will be holding am all-day workshop on streetcars at the Orpheum Theatre. With the news last winter that the city is thinking of putting a trolley back on Broadway, this workshop could provide […]

Video Contest Seeks Winning Pitch for Transit

By Ben Fried | May 9, 2008 | No Comments

Attention aspiring Streetfilm directors: U.S. PIRG has noticed that transit doesn’t seem to be on the radar of most pols, so it’s enlisting the YouTube generation to help lawmakers see the light. From the U.S. PIRG website: Are you tired of being stuck in traffic? Shouldn’t we have better options? In the last decade, […]

Metro’s Plans for 2009: No Fare Hike, Completed Gold Line

By Damien Newton | May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment

Gold Line Trains to East LA Should Be Online in ’09 Buried in a press release announcing the public comment period on Metro’s 2009 budget, was a bit of good news for straphangers and bus riders: Metro will not have a fare increase in the 2009 Fiscal Year (July 2008-July 2009). Other highlights from Metro’s […]

Melbourne: A Pedestrian Paradise

By Brad Aaron | May 6, 2008 | 6 Comments

Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson recently made the journey to Melbourne, Australia, where he found a "new world city" redesigned for people-oriented development and mobility. Writes Clarence: Melbourne is simply wonderful. You can get lost in the nooks and crannies that permeate the city. As you walk you feel like free-flowing air with no impediments to your […]

Sneak Peak at Subway to the Sea Alternatives (Updated)

By Damien Newton | May 5, 2008 | 20 Comments

(Update: Darell Clarke has "official" higher resolution images of the alternatives at his personal blog LA Vision) The Daily News reported this morning that Metro has narrowed the list of alternative routes for the Red Line extension known as the Subway to the Sea from 17 in February to 4 that will be unveiled at […]

Obama Dismisses Gas Tax “Gimmick”

By Brad Aaron | May 1, 2008 | 1 Comment

With primaries in North Carolina and Indiana less than a week out, Barack Obama seems to have taken Streetsbloggers’ advice with this ad explaining why a suspension of the federal gas tax, as called for by Hillary Clinton and John McCain (among others), is a sham. It’s a masterful spot: the swelling orchestral score, the […]

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