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Renderings for Story Park at North Chapel and East Woodward Avenues. This project received $850,000 in state funding to convert the closed recreational pool into open space. Image: City of Alhambra

Six SGV Projects Awarded $20 million in State Parks Grants, to Bring New and Expanded Parks to the Area

By Kristopher Fortin | Dec 16, 2021 | No Comments

Alhambra, Baldwin Park, Covina and unincorporated West Puente Valley will receive money to create new parks, or expand/renovate currently existing ones

Today’s Headlines

By Joe Linton | Dec 16, 2021 | No Comments

COVID Hospitalizations Surging Across CA (LAT)
Pasadena Needs To Address Deadly Streets (Colorado Blvd)
Carnage: Was Long Beach Liquor Store Complicit In Deadly Crash? (LB Post)
Stevenson Ranch Car Crash Sends One To Hospital (SC Signal)
Driver Crashes Into West Hollywood Outdoor Dining Area (WeHoVille)
Permanent Supportive Housing Unwrapped In Venice (Urbanize)
How PCH Almost Missed Malibu (KCRW)
Uber To Test Driverless Food Delivery In Santa Monica Next Year (Daily News)
California Program To Clean Trash Along Freeways Is Working (Daily News)
Grand Jury Charges Oil Company In OC Spill (LB Post)
Central Valley Oil Drilling Threatening Water Supply (LAT)

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Opinion: The Bus Driver Shortage is an Emergency

By Jarrett Walker | Dec 15, 2021 | No Comments

Many US transit agencies are looking at devastating service cuts due to a shortage of bus drivers. And there's something simple but powerful that sustainable transportation advocates can do about it.

Today’s Headlines

By Joe Linton | Dec 15, 2021 | No Comments

More On Assemblymember Cristina Garcia’s Bill To Curb Freeway Expansion (LB Post)
LAT Editorial: Legalize Street Vendors
Report: Reduced Vehicle Emissions Has Meant Fewer Deaths (LAT)
Norwalk Celebrates Its First Electric Bus (@cityofnorwalkca Instagram)
Manhattan Beach Restaurant Owners Against Taking Away Outdoor Dining (Daily Breeze)
Streets for All Asks You To Complete A Survey On Larchmont Transportation
Metro Asks You To Complete A Survey On the Central L.A. River Path
Gordon Price Seeks and Finds L.A.’s Missing Middle Housing (Viewpoint Vancouver)

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Some southland bike lanes drop out of projects unexpectedly. Forest Lawn Drive bike lanes photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

Why Can’t Metro/L.A./Caltrans Just Add Approved Bikeways When Building Big Projects?

By Joe Linton | Dec 14, 2021 | No Comments

Metro, Caltrans, and L.A. City Public Works Department miss many opportunities to extend L.A. bikeway facilities into more of a network

Workers build bikes in the United Kingdom. Image: Hulton-Deutsch Collection, Corbis, via Nat Geo, CC

Report: To Sustain the Cycling Boom, U.S. Must Build Up American Bike Manufacturing

By Kea Wilson | Dec 14, 2021 | No Comments

And as the bike shortages of the Covid-19 pandemic recently revealed, the absence of a robust domestic bike industry can itself become a barrier to getting Americans riding.

An unfiltered image from Salem, Ore. during a 2020 wildfire. Source: Bruhmoney77, CC

Oregon DOT’s Real Climate Plan: Keep on Polluting

By Joe Cortright | Dec 14, 2021 | No Comments

The Oregon DOT’s “Climate Action Plan” claims the agency wants to decrease greenhouse gases, but its revenue projections show it is planning for gasoline consumption not to decline at all – meaning that carbon emissions don’t decline, either.

Today’s Headlines

By Joe Linton | Dec 14, 2021 | No Comments

As COVID Surges, CA Resumes Indoor Mask Mandate (LAT, Daily News)
…Judge Rules: Yes, Vax Mandates Apply To Police (LAT)
New Metro Bus Schedules Take Effect This Sunday (The Source)
Metro Transit Ridership Ticked Upward In November (The Source)
Man Fatally Struck By B Line In Hollywood (LAT, MSN, ABC7)
Carnage: Hit-and-Run Driver Kills One In Palmdale (AV Times)
…Driver Arrested In Deadly Reseda Hit-and-Run (CBS2)
San Francisco Welcomes Train Electrification Infrastructure (SBCA)
Gas Prices Dip, Just Complain About High Price Now (L.A. Magazine)

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The 710 Freeway at the 91 Freeway - photo via Metro presentation

Assemblymember Cristina Garcia Planning Legislation to Stop Freeway Expansion in Underserved Communities

By Joe Linton | Dec 13, 2021 | No Comments

Garcia's bill would prohibit the state from funding or permitting highway projects in areas with high rates of pollution and poverty and where residents have suffered negative health effects from living near freeways.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, center, takes a tour of Richmond’s Jackson Ward Neighborhood, accompanied by Mayor Levar Stoney (right) and Maritza Mercado Pechin, (left) a city planning official. Image courtesy Wyatt Gordon for the Virginia Mercury)

Could Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Help Heal the Scars Highways Created?

By Wyatt Gordon | Dec 13, 2021 | No Comments

From the interstate highway system to public housing, some of America’s most discriminatory and damaging policies have been implemented under the auspices of the need for better infrastructure. A recent visit from Sec. Buttigieg highlighted what the USDOT hopes to do to reverse the harm.

This Week In Livable Streets

By Joe Linton | Dec 13, 2021 | No Comments

Metro's lower 710 Freeway task force, L.A. Harbor plans, inquests into three fatal shootings by police and where to find public health updates

Today’s Headlines

By Joe Linton | Dec 13, 2021 | No Comments

Proposed CA Law Seeks To Ban Freeway Expansion In Underserved Communities (LAT)
L.A. Is About To Lower Some Speed Limits (KTLA)
Carnage: Street Racers Kill Student Near USC (LAT, Daily News)
…Driver Arrested In Deady Desert Hot Spring Crash (LAT)
…Driver Kills 85-Year-Old Person In Reseda Hit-and-Run (Daily News)
…Two Killed In Crash On Pearblossom Highway (AV Times)
,,,Car Crash Damages Downey’s Rose Bowl Float Barn (Downey Patriot)
Taxis Often Cheaper Than Ride-Hail From LAX (LAT)
L.A.’s First Safe Campground Village Gets Mixed Reviews (KCRW)
LA Podcast Talks Metro Fare Resumption, Garcetti, and More
Beth Pratt Raised Millions For 101 Freeway Wildlife Overpass (LAT)
Op Ed: L.A. Can’t Push Bikes And Buses Aside (LAT)

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