Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Governor Greenhouse

Schwarzenegger’s Folly: Rumored Budget Would Slash Transit Funds and Gas Tax

By Damien Newton | Jan 4, 2010 | 4 Comments

Photo: He’s smiling. He must be thinking of cars…or private jets. Zimbio.com In October of last year, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a rather innocuous piece of legislation with a hidden message telling the bill’s author, by way of reading the first letter of each line, to f-u-c-k y-o-u. Childish? Yes. However, millions of transit riders […]

OC Register: Why Just Exempt the Stadium?

By Damien Newton | Oct 28, 2009 | 5 Comments

Governor Schwarzenegger is ready for some football and sweetheart deals for billionaires. Last weekend, in the wake of Governor Schwarzenegger’s signing of a law exempting the largest development project in Southern California since the L.A. Colliseum, the drumbeat began for more exemptions for projects that are going to be a lot less destructive to the […]

Bad News from Governor, Courts on 710 Expansion Near Pasadena

By Damien Newton | Oct 28, 2009 | 6 Comments

You know what this highway needs? More travel lanes. Photo: Big Mike Lakers/Flickr Opponents of expanding the I-710 near Pasadena to connect the road to the I-210 received a double dose of bad news in recent weeks from both the courts and our environmental governor. First, Governor Scwarzenegger, between lecturing his wife about safe driving, […]

Gov. Supplies Teeth, but No Eyes, to Cash Out Parking Requirement

By Damien Newton | Oct 27, 2009 | 4 Comments

Supporters of cash-out-parking, the state law that requires employers of more than fifty people that offer free parking to employees to provide an equal benefit to those that don’t commute via automobile, were closely watching two pieces of legislation this session. The legislation was to fill two major holes in the state mandate, and while […]

CA Poised to Reform Auto-Centric Level of Service Environmental Rules

By Matthew Roth | Oct 26, 2009 | 4 Comments

California administrative rulemakers recently moved a step closer to reforming the section of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) that has compelled cities to focus undue attention on the age-old Automobile Level of Service (LOS) threshold for impacts of new projects and has led to the construction of excess off-street parking.

Poll: Californians Don’t Like Gas Prices, Want Better Transit

By Damien Newton | Jul 30, 2009 | 12 Comments

The Governor may not think transit is a priority, but his constituents do. Photo: San Diego Transit A new survey released yesterday by the Public Policy Institute of California has been getting a lot of play in the press because of the strong support Californians are showing for Greenhouse Gas reduction programs, even in the […]

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