Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transportation Policy

California Transportation Commission: $538 Billion Needed to Maintain System

By Dana Gabbard | Apr 11, 2012 | No Comments

One of the things I do each year is read the California Transportation Commission Annual Report. I find it a useful snapshot of policy and operation issues for transportation in California. Intriguingly the 2011 Report’s introduction mentions a statewide transportation needs assessment the Commission released late last year. Over 10 years ago the Commission undertook […]

Model Street Manual: A Generic Road Map to Sustainable Transportation Planning

By Damien Newton | Oct 7, 2011 | 4 Comments

Over the past few months, we’ve checked in on the efforts of five communities in Los Angeles County to create more livable, walkable, bikeable and healthier communities through better transportation planning through the Los Angeles PLACE Grants. However, Los Angeles County is home to 11 million residents, and less than 750,000 live in PLACE communities. […]

Glendale Invests in Safe and Healthy Streets for a Safe and Healthy Future

By Damien Newton | Sep 7, 2011 | 5 Comments

This week’s series on the grants from the L.A. County Department of Public Health’s Policies for Livable and Active Communities and Environments (PLACE) Grants focuses on Glendale and their groundbreaking Safe and Healthy Streets Plan. Glendale’s grant was different than most because it wasn’t the city that was actually awarded the grant, but the Los […]

New Legislation Seeks to Lower Voter Threshold for Transit Tax Approval

By Damien Newton | Aug 29, 2011 | 21 Comments

A series of amendments proposed by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) to SB 791 would lower the threshold of voter approval for new taxes to fund transportation improvements from 67% to 50%. “SB 791 empowers local communities to meet their local transportation needs, improve regional mobility, and invest in high-priority, job-creating infrastructure improvements,” said Sen. […]

Highlighting a sense of Place in Leimert Park

By James Rojas | Aug 24, 2011 | No Comments

The Leimert Park model is a thought provoking interactive diorama of this community that the public can use as tool to facilitate their urban planning ideas and fantasies for transportation, open space, housing, architecture and design. Through creating this model I was able to explore the unique topography, vide, and urban form of Leimert Park, […]

Sierra Club Pushes for Transit Plan for Farmer’s Field

By Damien Newton | Jun 23, 2011 | 14 Comments

If you’re looking for a vision for a sustainable transportation plan for the Downtown Stadium, you shouldn’t look to politicians or even AEG executives. A group of Sierra Club activists, led by Jerard Wright Angeles Chapter Transportation Committee Co-Chair, have outlined a transportation plan that would fulfill AEG’s claims that Farmers Field will encourage more […]

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