Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Infrastructure

Council Holds Slimmed Down Pico/Olympic Plan

By Damien Newton | | No Comments
When an angry mob of westside business owners descends on city hall it can mean just one thing…it’s time for another hearing of the Mayor’s Pico/Olympic Plan. Yesterday, the City Council’s Transportation Committee picked up where they left off last December to listen to LADOT and the local business owners tell two different stories of […]

Support the Bridges, End the War!

By Damien Newton | | No Comments
The Huffington Post has an essay up by Coleen Rowley, one of the Minnesotans who protested the president’s appearance at the Minnesota Bridge Disaster. Rowley notes the irony that her sign now represents with the president vetoing transportation funding while pushing ahead with more funding for the war. Rowley writes: We had no idea, however, […]

Something Scary for Halloween

By Damien Newton | | No Comments
Photo courtesy of LA Times Another day, another truck disaster on LA’s Highways. The horror story here isn’t that there was an accident yesterday, nor that a decent person died in a senseless accident. It’s that truck traffic is going to double in CA in the coming decades. The more trucks we have, the more […]