Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transit Advocacy

Two Important Transit Bills Moving in Sacramento

By Ryan Wiggins | Apr 12, 2011 | No Comments

(Ryan Wiggins is Transportation for America’s an on the ground in Southern California. Last week he presented a primer on transportation funding at “Expanding Our Public Transit Options: Resources to Keep LA Moving Forward?” a Salon put on by Breathe L.A. He was nice enough to share his notes with us in a two-part series. […]

Government Shutdown Would Be a Punch in the Gut to Transit Agencies

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 8, 2011 | No Comments

A powwow between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, President Obama, and House Speaker John Boehner last night failed to yield a compromise that would put a budget in place before the government shuts down at midnight tonight. The failure of yet another attempt to negotiate makes a government shutdown all but inevitable. Just a month […]

A Call to Plan Cities for Tomorrow, While Bracing for Transit Cuts Today

By Alice Ollstein | Apr 5, 2011 | No Comments

USDOT Deputy Secretary John Porcari kicked off the Transportation Equity Network’s “One Nation, Indivisible” conference yesterday with a call to think long-term. By 2050, he said, we can expect the U.S. population to grow by 100 million people, and nearly all of them will live in large urban centers. Problems like crumbling infrastructure, inadequate transit […]

“Zen in the Art of Travel Behavior: Using Visual Ethnography to Understand the Transit Experience” a Photo-Transit Project from UCLA Goes Online

By Damien Newton | Mar 15, 2011 | No Comments

Almost a year ago, Streetsblog announced that a team of UCLA Graduate Students were working on a “Transit Photo Project” where participants took pictures of their transit oriented commute. These photographs would create photologs of their commuting experience and would allow the researchers to analyze how participants really feel about their commutes. And now the […]

How About An Inclusive Movement?

By Jessica Meaney | Feb 18, 2011 | 1 Comment

(ed. note – I know a lot of you already know Jessica Meaney with the Safe Routes to Schools National Partnership. But did you also know she’s also on our local Board of Directors for Streetsblog? This editorial will be the first of many you’ll see from our Board Members going forward. – DN) Many […]

Will President Obama Speak for the Transit-Starved Tonight?

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 25, 2011 | No Comments

President Obama is expected to make a strong push for infrastructure spending during the State of the Union address tonight. Ahead of the address, the Transportation Equity Network organized its members and supporters to write to President Obama, telling their personal stories of why transit funding is crucial to their communities. In all, TEN will […]

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