Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Measure R

“High Desert Corridor,” a New Highway for North L.A. County, Moves Forward

By Damien Newton | Sep 20, 2010 | 45 Comments

We don’t often discuss issues effecting the Northern parts of L.A. County. But as a freeway expansion project moves through the environmental study phases towards construction; it’s worthwhile to check in on one of the few new highway projects in Southern California, the High Desert Corridor project. With $33 million in Measure R funds to […]

Move L.A.: Go on Record with Your Support for 30/10

By Damien Newton | Jul 14, 2010 | No Comments

Move L.A., the first organization to push for a sales tax to fund transit in 2008 and the group that invented the 30/10 plan, is now asking for your help to get that plan through Congress. The petition, which you can sign on behalf of yourself or on behalf of an organization, isn’t just a […]

Measure R Rail Projects Underway: Ground Is Broken for Foothill Extension

By Damien Newton | Jun 28, 2010 | 15 Comments

From the groundbreaking’s pamphlet, which can be found here. h/t I Will Ride This weekend wasn’t just a good one for cyclists. On Saturday, while I was still sleeping off Critical Mass, groundbreaking occurred for the Gold Line Foothill Extension in the San Gabriel Valley. The rail line was always a popular project with Valley […]

Measure R Independent Taxpayers Oversight Committee of Metro Meets Thursday

By Dana Gabbard | Jun 3, 2010 | 1 Comment

Image: Metro.net You’ll remember in April, while discussing the obscure Independent Citizens’ Advisory and Oversight Committee (ICAOC), I mentioned the start-up of the Measure R Independent Taxpayers Oversight Committee was impending. The hold up was the appointment of the three Committee members. Measure R dictates the panel shall be made up of retired judges, with […]

Specter of Gas Tax Lingers as Rendell, Villaraigosa Push Infrastructure Bank

By Elana Schor | May 14, 2010 | No Comments

Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA) and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D), two of the nation’s best-known advocates for greater investment in the built environment, today joined several House Democrats in calling for federal action on a National Infrastructure Bank (NIB) — even as questions about how the bank’s scope, and Congress’ resistance to raising sustained […]

A Clean, Green, Vertical Los Angeles – The 30/10 Love Train

By Gloria Ohland | Apr 30, 2010 | 9 Comments

These were the place mats awaiting guests at yesterday’s conference. Nice work Transit Coalition – DN (Since leaving the LA Weekly, where she did everything from review bands to serve as transportation writer, Gloria Ohland has been heavily involved in the transit reform scene. Most recently she worked with the T.O.D. advocacy group Reconnecting America. […]

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