Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Eric Garcetti

Open Thread: The First 101 Days of Mayor Garcetti

By Damien Newton | Oct 10, 2013 | 5 Comments

Garcetti layed out his own transportation agenda in our interview series during the primaries. With much fanfare from the mainstream press, Mayor Eric Garcetti’s first 100 days in office have come and gone. Polls show the mayor has pretty outstanding approval numbers as he’s earned praise for a quiet and steady leadership style. Things haven’t […]

The Movement Against the Highway Friendly Redesign of Hyperion Grows

By Damien Newton | Oct 8, 2013 | 7 Comments

Garcetti, LaBonge and O’Farrell promote the redesign and ask for public comment. It started as a note from contacts at the Bicycle Coalition (LACBC), turned into a mini-series on Streetsblog and now the movement to stop the redesign of the Hyperion-Glendale Complex of Bridges that would turn one of the region’s most iconic structures into […]

It Never Would Have Taken This Long…If Villaraigosa Were Still in Charge

By Damien Newton | Oct 2, 2013 | 11 Comments

By the time I hit Spring Street, I was in a bad mood. My plan for the afternoon was to ride Metro and my bike up to Colorado Blvd. to take pictures of the new buffered bike lanes before heading downtown to ride the repainted Spring Street Green Buffered Bike Lane and then visit the […]

Eyes on the Street: the Ongoing Humiliation of the Spring Street Bike Lanes

By Damien Newton | Sep 23, 2013 | 9 Comments

As we reported last week, the dangerousification of Spring Street is in full swing these days. With the City Council mandated water blasting of the Green Buffered Bike Lane completed, advocates wait for the city to install its completely untested, but less expensive, new paint design. But while we wait for the city to make […]

Response to Venice Boardwalk Crash Should Be Model, Not Outlier

By Damien Newton | Aug 5, 2013 | 3 Comments

Saturday in the late afternoona, Nathan Lewis Campbell got in his car and created carnage on the Venice Boardwalk. The 38-year-old native of Colorado drove on to the boardwalk and swerved through the area injuring dozens and killing Italian Alice Gruppioni, a 32 year old newly waling barefoot on the beach next to her husband. They […]

California Traffic Control Devices Committee Approves New Design for Spring Street Green Buffered Bike Lane

By Damien Newton | Jul 30, 2013 | 13 Comments

[poll id=”113″] Last week, the California Traffic Control Devices Committee approved the “compromise” design for the Spring Street Green Buffered Bike Lane. The CTCD was the last body that needed to approve the design. As you may recall, the new design will maintain the buffer, change the shade of green from bright green to forest […]

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