Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transit Advocacy

Live and Learn Part II

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Darrell Clarke from Friend’s for Expo wrote with a few corrections to the story on Wednesday’s meeting. Since the errors were more of me being a newbie and things being different out here than anything else, I decided to re-print his comments with an occasional explanation from me. Stuff from the original post in black, […]

Debate Over Grade Crossings Highlights Expo Meeting

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(Note: For more on potential designs and teh history of the project go to the official site here, the Wikipedia site here or Friends 4 Expo Transit’s site here .) Debate concerning the safety of at-level (street level) grade crossings highlighted last night’s public meeting on the proposed alternatives for Phase II of the Expo […]

The 2nd Annual Alt Car Expo

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StreetHeat took its first field trip this weekend to the 2007 Alternative Energy and Transportation Expo in Santa Monica. While I was wowed by cars that get 100 miles per gallon and bikes that do some of the pedaling for you…what was most important for this blogger was a chance to start meeting some folks […]