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Photo:AbeLincoln.com Los Angeles Streetsblog will be taking Monday off to celebrate President’s Day.  If you can’t help yourself and need a fix of transportation headlines, some of the other Streetsblogs will be doing a "Today’s Headlines" post.  I wish you all a safe and happy Valentine’s Day and President’s Day.  If nothing else, I hope […]

Photo: New York Times via 4 LA Kids UC Berkeley professor Michael Jerrett strongly suggests in a new study that reducing the traffic near people’s homes could have a dramatic impact on the health of the children living near public streets. The bad news?  Obesity rates for children in Los Angeles is high.  For example, […]

Photo from last fall’s Zip Car press conference at UCLA. Photo: LAist The Los Angeles Department of Transportation reported on the success that car-sharing has had in the areas around USC and UCLA where spaces were installed on the streets around campus on September 14 of last year.  The preliminary report showed that by adding […]

This is an interesting week, as there’s a lot of important, but very different, meetings and events on the calendar. Tuesday: The Transit Coalition features Expo Construction Authority CEO Richard Thorpe at its monthly meeting.  With certification of the FEIR for Phase II on next week’s Authority Board Agenda, this discussion promises to be "spirited."  […]

A lot of you know I’m not one to toot my own horn; but you also know that when a blog wins an award such as L.A. Weekly’s “Top Local Activist Website” that it’s not just a reflection on me as the editor.  It’s a reflection on the work everyone does that writes a story, […]

In March 2009, the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College produced the L.A. Bike Summit. The event was a smashing success with over twenty workshops and participants from around the world, bringing together hundreds of bicyclists to celebrate, debate, and advance the growing Los Angeles bike movement. Thanks to all the great folks […]