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Next Friday at 7:00 P.M., the second Los Angeles Streetsblog fundraiser will roll out of the Flying Pigeon Bike Shop (3714 Figueroa Street) at 7:00 P.M.  We’ll be doing a relaxed pace, nearly-ten-mile ride visiting many of the former transit stops of the old trolley cars in Northeast L.A.  You can see our probably route […]

As regular readers of the Capitol Hill blog already know, yesterday marked Elana Schor’s last day covering the national transportation policy beat for Streetsblog. On behalf of the Streetsblog staff in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, as well as the Streetsblog Network, I’d like to share my appreciation for Elana’s work over the […]

Slide 10 At its May 12, 210 meeting the Board of the San Bernardino Associated Governments (a Council of Gvernments/planning entity) viewed a remarkable power point presentation its staff had prepared. In just 34 pages it gives policymakers a peek at the yawning challenges facing our region. It doesn’t offer any solutions but at least gives […]

The new year heralded a new blog devoted to "The Obscure, Offbeat and Half-Forgotten Transportation History of Southern California", Charles Hobbs’s More Than Red Cars. I’ve known Hobbs since 1994, when I first became involved with Southern California Transit Advocates. At the time he was Vice President and also editor of the monthly newsletter The […]

In honor of National Bike Month, we asked you to send in pictures of bike infrastructure you love. And we got one message loud and clear: you love your bike infrastructure. A lot. We got hundreds of submissions.  It was terrific to see all the great stuff that’s out there, particularly because so much of […]

30 Seconds of Tug of War This certainly isn’t what the LADOT installed "Scramble Crosswalks," i.e. "Barnes Dances" i.e. "pedestrian-only diagnol signals" at a handful of intersections.  College students playing in the street?  I admit that when I first got an email urging me to check out the spectacle known as "30 Seconds of Awesome" […]