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Recently, Streetsblog Editor-in-Chief Aaron Naperstek sat down to chat with Gary Toth the Senior Director of Transportation Initiatives with the Project for Public Spaces.  I knew Mr. Toth very well when he was a director with the New Jersey Department of Transportation and I was the New Jersey Coordinator for the Tri-State Transportation Campaign.  While […]

For More Pictures of Biking and Bike Sharing in Paris, Visit Anna’s Kodak Gallery Streetsblog contributor Anna Chow recently visited Paris and rented some bicycles from Velib.  Given the discussion on bike-sharing here in Los Angeles it seemed a more than an appropriate time to share her experience with those of us that haven’t been […]

It’s natural that following a crash as devastating as the one last Friday that Metrolink would find itself under intense fire from the media and families of victims.  However, in this case the agency seems to have inflicted at least some of the damage on itself.  An ill-timed press conference placing the blame on the […]

The Southern California Transit Advocates’ Kymberleigh Richards penned an op/ed for today’s Daily News that punches a hole in the argument that Metro’s sales tax proposal is unfair to some parts of the county because funds aren’t distributed based on residential population.  To wit: I do not disagree with Antonovich that the North County is […]

At around 5 P.M. Los Angeles Streetsblog will be going offline for about an hour while the programmers in New York do a little maintenance and cleanup.  If you get home, the site isn’t up yet, and you need some Streetsblog to help you let go before dinner; consider checking out our Facebook page or […]

Ask and ye shall receive.  The good people at Green Apple seem to have heard our cry for better bike parking.  On my way past the Wilshire Crescent strip mall, the first place featured in Streetsblog’s "Bike Unfriendly Place of the Week," yesterday I spotted a new bike rack bolted down to the parking lot.  […]