Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Measure R

Pasadena Star News/San Gabriel Valley Tribune: Wrong on Measure R in 2008, Wrong on Extending It Today

By Damien Newton | Apr 24, 2012 | 15 Comments

Four Years ago, a pair of newspapers in the San Gabriel Valley opposed the passage of Measure R, a county wide transportation sales tax initiative that ultimately earned nearly 70% of the vote county-wide. The Pasadena Star-News and San Gabriel Valley Tribune, both owned by the same company, followed the lead of their local elected […]

Mike Antonovich’s Tortured Point and How the Mayor Should Have Reacted

By Damien Newton | Apr 20, 2012 | 15 Comments

Yesterday, at a meeting of the Metro Board of Directors Construction Committee, L.A. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich became the first public official to throw cold water on Mayor Villaraigosa’s transit dreams by denouncing plans to place an extension of the Measure R half cent transportation sales tax indefinitely. Much of the coverage of Antonovich’s complaints have […]

Antonio Villaraigosa, The Transportation Mayor

By Damien Newton | Apr 19, 2012 | 8 Comments

Five years ago, I was sitting at my desk in New York City reading about Los Angeles and wondering how I was going to adapt. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa seemed obsessed with speeding up car traffic to the detriment of neighborhoods. It’s hard to remember the Mayor’s talk of Tiger Teams, specialized LAPD units designed to […]

Daily News: More Measure R Funds for Bikeways

By Damien Newton | Mar 1, 2012 | No Comments

The Daily News, which still appears to be the conservative alternative to the Los Angeles Times in many respects, published an editorial earlier today calling on the L.A. County Board of Supervisors to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to bicycle planning. The message: it’s not enough just to pass a […]

Move L.A. Hosts “L.A. on the Verge” This Friday, What Would You Do with Measure R+

By Damien Newton | Feb 22, 2012 | 8 Comments

Is Los Angeles on the “verge of a transit breakthrough” as Move L.A. states in the promotions for Friday’s all day conference featuring Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other political leaders, labor organizers and environmental groups? Or, is Los Angeles decades away from fulfilling the dream of a workable rail system promised by Measure R? If […]

The Mayor’s Office, Measure R and Multiple “Plan B’s”

By Damien Newton | Jan 30, 2012 | No Comments

When the Mayor and his staff in city hall say that nothing is off the table when it comes to accelerating project development and construction for the transit projects funded by the Measure R sales tax, they aren’t just talking. While the Mayor promised that there was a “Plan B” if his efforts to change […]

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