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Last night, as a last step before getting three speed limit increases approved for the San Fernando Valley, the LADOT and LAPD presented the increases to the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council’s Public Safety Committee.  The meeting only occurred because members of the committee attended a City Council hearing on the increases and the Council […]

In a city government who’s transportation thoughts are directed in writing love sonnets to the private automobile, it should come as no surprise that the city’s "Take-Home Car Program" is little more than an entitlement program for our urban rulers.  However, following a scathing report by Controller Laura Chick, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa made some moderate […]

Parking Enforcement Explains That It Allows Vehicles to Park in Aprons as Long as Property Owners Don’t Complain As city officials gear up for primary and general elections this Spring, there are a lot of major issues that are flying under the radar as budgetary and other issues dominate the discourse.  However, one issue that […]

H/t to Mattapoisett in LA. Television station KCET is looking for people to shoot videoes or photoes of their commutes for an online series they’re doing for their "SoCal Connected" series.  Initially they gave cameras to five commuters, including a cyclist, a pedestrian and a transit user; but if they’re looking for people to tell […]

Yesterday a joint meeting of the Los Angeles City Council Transportation and Planning Committees got a first look at the city’s first draft of its list of "Ready to Go" projects for a potential Obama stimulus investment in our nation’s infrastructure.  The draft list, which first appeared on the City Clerk’s website this morning, is […]

For a veteran of Transportation Committee Hearings, today was a strange day.  Maybe it was that instead of thirty people wearing suits, the committee room was full of over 100 bike activists wearing just about everything from suits to spandex.  Or maybe it was Councilman Rosendahl basically yelling at the LAPD.  Or maybe it was […]