New Bike Lanes Installed on North Figueroa in Cypress Park
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The new North Figueroa bike lanes extend 0.8 miles from Avenue 26 to Marmion Way/Pasadena Avenue.
Editorial: Monterey Park City Council Considers Making Garvey Avenue More Dangerous
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Monterey Park is looking to add more car lanes to Garvey Avenue - saying it will reduce congestion - but studies show more lanes means more traffic, plus more pollution and more dangerous streets
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Inglewood’s $1.4B Stadium People-Mover Plans (LAT)
- Construction Proceeding On Long Beach’s Del Amo Blvd Protected Bikeway (Biking in L.A.)
- Rancho Mirage Can Make Highway 111 A Great Street, Not Just For Cars (Desert Sun)
- Carnage: Woodland Hills Driver Kills Person, Critically Injures Two Others (Daily News)
…Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Santa Ana Cyclist (Biking in L.A.)
…High-Speed Motorcyclist Dies In Boyle Heights Solo Crash (Eastsider) - Affordable 5-Story 105-Home Mixed-Used Rising By A Line In South L.A. (Urbanize)
- Lancaster Awarded $24.6M AHSC Grant For Downtown Housing With Bike/Walk/Rail (AV Times)
- Lena Gonzalez Bill Would Support CA Street Vending (LB Post)
- So. Cal. Breaking Heat Records (Daily News, LAist)
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L.A. Planning to Reduce Speed Limits on 177 Miles of City Streets
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Under a new state law, A.B. 43, LADOT determined that speed limit reductions were warranted on 77 street segments totaling 177.2 miles.
San Diego County Ponders a VMT Tax, with a Twist
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This tax, if approved, wouldn’t cover all of the SANDAG region, but would provide a steady revenue stream for its urban center.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Bel-Air Plans To Fight Metro Sepulveda Subway Tunnel (Curbed)
…today is the last day to submit comments on Sepulveda Transit scoping - KCRW Looks Into Metro’s Bus Driver Shortage
- Metro To Hold Civil Rights Hearings For Crenshaw And Regional Connector Service (The Source)
- Cyclists Are Entitled (Biking in L.A.)
- Carnage: Driver Kills Pedestrian In Pasadena (Pasadena Now)
…Driver Killed In Fiery San Dimas Crash (SGV Tribune)
…Two People In Critical Condition From Long Beach Rollover Crash (LB Post)
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Some Questions About Metro’s Proposed North Hollywood Station Development
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NoHo joint development would be great - if it included more affordable housing, less parking, quality bikeway connections, and lots of people walking
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- L.A. County Posts Worst COVID Deaths Day In 11 Months (LAT)
- More On L.A. City Council Push To Criminalize Public Bike Repair (LAT, LAist)
- Carnage: Driver Kills Pedestrian In South L.A. (MyNewsLA)
- Norwalk To Develop 10-Acre Civic Center Lawn (Urbanize)
- Compton Kicks Off $8M Worth Of Street Repairs (Sentinel)
- Long Beach Opens Part Of New Downtown Lincoln Park (LongBeachIze)
- Big Rigs Collide, Jam 5 Freeway In Santa Clarita (SC Signal)
- CA Has A Million Plug-In Cars Registered (Daily Breeze)
- Huntington Beach Oil Spill Spurs Proposed Offshore Drilling Ban (LAT)
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Broad Motion by Homelessness Hardliner Takes Aim at Streetside Bike Sales and Repairs; Council Critics Call Out Political Theater
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In which CM Krekorian details how annoyed he was when police asked him why he believed the bikes he saw at an encampment were stolen.
STUDY: What A Lifetime of Car Ownership Costs — And Who Pays
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The average motorist will pay a whopping $650,000 on the low end to own a car over his or her lifetime, and society will pick up over 40 percent of the tab, a new study finds.
New Bike Lanes on Yosemite Drive in Eagle Rock
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The "Slow Yosemite" improvements a relatively rare asymmetric bikeway - a new uphill bike lane, with sharrows in the downhill direction
New Portantino Legislation Would Force More Progressive Transportation Planning in California Cities
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“There is no denying it, California needs safer streets,” stated Portantino.