Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Joe Buscaino

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 […]

Location, Location, Location: Contested Public Space Means Moving Watts School Could Deny Some Education

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 14, 2014 | 3 Comments

“They say they care about our safety, but they’re putting us in harm’s way!” It is a refrain I’ve heard several times over the last month from students of INSPIRE Research Academy, a state-subsidized continuation school based at YO! Watts that offers 17-24-year-olds a free education and a rare second chance to get their high […]

City Council approves a motion to study the feasibility of fixing LA’s streets in our lifetime

By Ted Rogers | Aug 21, 2013 | 5 Comments

In the end the vote, as usual, was unanimous. The Los Angeles City Council voted 15 to 0 this morning, not to fix the city’s crumbling streets, but to study how to fix them. And more importantly, how to pay for it. The vote came on a proposal from Council Members Joe Buscaino and Mitch […]

Livability Advocates Dominate #RoadBond Hearing, Press Ignores

By Damien Newton | Aug 9, 2013 | No Comments

On Wednesday, the City Council Public Works and Gang Reduction Committee ordered city staff to study funding options for a bond proposal to fix city streets. You may remember Council Members Joe Buscaino, who happens to chair the Public Works and Gang Reduction Committee, and Mitch Englander proposed a property tax increase to fund a […]

Public Safety Committee Acknowledges the Hit and Run Crisis, LAPD Not So Much.

By Don Ward | Aug 2, 2013 | 9 Comments

In Los Angeles, according to LAPD crime statistics for 2011, 1273 cyclists and pedestrians were victims of hit and run crimes. In other words every single day, 3 or 4 cyclists and pedestrians become hit and run victims within Los Angeles city limits. Of these, 26 people walking or biking died as a result of […]

Is Joe Buscaino the Next Bill Rosendahl?

By Damien Newton | Jul 26, 2013 | 6 Comments

In 2007, when I first met Bill Rosendahl, he seemed a likable enough politician. He favored raising the gas tax and fought a stealth traffic capacity expansion project in his district. He seemed a solid progressive vote on transportation issues. Then, following a horrific crash in his district where an E.R. doctor intentionally maimed two […]