Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Eric Garcetti

Englander Touts Reseda Great Street Upgrade, Includes Protected Bike Lanes

By Joe Linton | Mar 24, 2015 | 25 Comments

The city of Los Angeles will receive its first parking-protected bike lanes this weekend. The new parking-protected lanes are part of a Great Streets upgrade to Reseda Boulevard in Northridge. They will extend one mile from Parthenia Street to Plummer Street, replacing existing conventional bike lanes. If readers are unfamiliar with parking-protected bike lanes, also called […]

Continental Crosswalks Appear at Barrington and National

By Damien Newton | Jan 5, 2015 | 14 Comments

Nearly two months ago, on November 12, Mayor Eric Garcetti stood with Councilmembers Mike Bonin and Joe Buscaino and Controller Ron Galerpin at the road repaving project at Barrington Avenue and National Boulevard. The Mayor announced that, thanks to new revenue, the city would now be repaving 200 additional miles of roadway, above and beyond its regular […]

Editorial: Four Ways To Encourage Transit-Friendly Affordable Housing

By Joe Linton | Dec 10, 2014 | 13 Comments

I’ve been thinking about Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s recent motion to help Metro partner on joint development of affordable housing near stations. Also, Garcetti-ally L.A. City Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell expressed support for reducing parking requirements in new affordable housing developments along transit corridors, to “help lower construction costs and therefore rents.” A new report this […]

Kinkisharyo Agreement Reached, Metro Rail Cars To Be Built in Palmdale

By Joe Linton | Nov 25, 2014 | 13 Comments

In October, the L.A. Times declared Kinkisharyo’s Palmdale Metro light rail car manufacturing plant “all but dead.” KPCC reported that County Supervisor Mike Antonovich spoke at a rally condemning labor’s legal challenges as “nonsense.” County Supervisor Don Knabe opined that “regulatory red tape” had cost L.A. County jobs. Apparently, the reports of the death of […]

Garcetti Motion Encourages Affordable Housing At Metro Stations

By Joe Linton | Nov 13, 2014 | No Comments

Earlier today, the Metro board of directors passed a motion [PDF] encouraging Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and affordable housing. The motion may give some indication of where the board’s newest chair, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, hopes to take the agency. Garcetti has been a vocal proponent of siting affordable housing along transit lines. Garcetti authored the motion […]

Garcetti, City Leaders, Promise Hundreds of Repaired Streets Every Year

By Damien Newton | Nov 12, 2014 | 8 Comments

Flanked by elected and appointed city officials, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a handful of initiatives and reforms that would increase city revenue for road repaving by nearly $50 million a year at the “under reconstruction” corner of National and Barrington Boulevards in West Los Angeles. “All told, we are going to pay another 200 miles […]

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