Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transportation Policy

Building Coalitions Around Health, Equity and Transportation

By Joe Linton | Apr 28, 2011 | 1 Comment

The California Pan-Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN) convened an informative one-day conference entitled The Road to Health: Improving Community Wellbeing Through Transportation. The Los Angeles convening was one of four in various parts of the state – with San Diego and Oakland events are upcoming on May 4th and 5th, respectively. The local event took place yesterday at the California Endowment’s Center […]

Model Streets Manual on Its Way — Move Over Old Traffic Handbook

By Carter Rubin | Mar 16, 2011 | 5 Comments

On Tuesday night, a group of urban planners, transportation engineers, and public health advocates convened at Metro headquarters to preview the fruits of an intensive two-day labor. Led by design consultant Ryan Snyder, this team of local and national experts had been working in Los Angeles to create a new and visionary streets manual for […]

NACTO: Feds Already Greenlighting Bikeway Design Innovations

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 11, 2011 | No Comments

The National Association of City Transportation Officials’ Urban Bikeway Design Guide was 20 years in the making, and already it’s having an impact, says the organization’s Mia Birk. Bringing together transportation officials from 20 major cities to discuss progress on bikeway designs in the U.S. produced quite a few “aha moments,” said Birk. For one, […]

Rail L.A. Looking for Your Ideas to Fix L.A.’s Transportation Woes

By Damien Newton | Feb 10, 2011 | 4 Comments

Rail L.A.’s “LA Beyond Cars” Exhibit from 89.3 KPCC on Vimeo. We don’t usually announce contests here at Streetsblog, but this one seemed too good to pass up. Rail L.A., the people that brought you the L.A. Beyond Cars exhibit in Downtown L.A. last summer, are looking for your ideas on how to make it […]

CRA Unveils Draft Plans for South Figueroa, Public Mostly Positive

By Damien Newton | Feb 9, 2011 | 15 Comments

A standing room only audience descended on the Fashion Institute of Design on South Grand Street to listen to a presentation from the embattled Community Redevelopment Agency for a ground breaking and popular proposal to transform the South Figueroa Corridor. When people discuss Los Angeles’ streets, they usually use terms such as “car-oriented” or “ugly.” […]

Report and Poll Shows There Are Two Stories to the Los Angeles Commute

By Damien Newton | Dec 16, 2010 | 5 Comments

(Editor’s note: If you want to dig a little deeper into the numbers on Metro’s customer satisfaction surveys, we have the full results in pdf form for bus riders, train riders, and everyone available for viewing or download. – DN) Yesterday, Angie Schmitt, who writes the daily “Streetsblog.net” roundup, reported on an analysis that ranked […]

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