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California Sustainable Affordable Housing Grants Awarded to Five Local Projects
Five southern California AHSC grants - four L.A. City and one L.A. County - will bring more than 500 transit-oriented affordable housing units, plus bus, bike, and walk improvements
September 5, 2023
Culver City Plans Protected Bikeway on Overland Avenue
Culver City's proposed ~2.5 mile Overland bike facility is mostly new protected bike lanes (about a mile and a half), plus about a half-mile of new unprotected bike lanes at the north end, and a short stretch of bike route at the south end
September 1, 2023
Why Do We Love Cars More Than We Love Our Children?
The county spent $8.9M redoing Huntington Drive and didn't make it safe for bicycling. What if we had given up a lane to create a place for bicycles that is physically separated from all those speeding cars?
Liz Schiller
August 16, 2023
Missing Metro Regional Connector First/Last Mile Facilities Worse Than Reported Earlier
Metro and LADOT quietly omitted and downgraded extensive bike and walk improvements approved and funded for Little Tokyo - in addition to omissions at Grand and Broadway stations
July 26, 2023
Eyes on the Bridge: the Gilman Bike/Ped Overpass
It's going to be great. But do bike and ped projects always have to include more capacity for cars?
Roger Rudick
July 17, 2023
Eyes on the Street: Culver City’s New Higuera Street Bridge
Culver's Higuera Street Bridge replacement project widened the bridge including widened sidewalks, plus added a new access ramp to the Ballona Creek path below, new protected bike lanes, and a new mid-bridge belvedere
July 12, 2023
Santa Monica’s New 17th Street Curb-Protected Bike Lanes Are Amazing
Nearly completed, Santa Monica's excellent 17th Street bike/ped improvements include Southern California's first European-type curb-protected intersections
July 7, 2023
Venice Boulevard Bus and Bike Upgrade Project Completed
2.1 miles of new bus lanes, and 2.5 miles of conventional bike lanes upgraded to parking-protected... but also a couple of gaps
June 28, 2023
Modest Bike Improvements Along Downtown Connector Stations, Though Mostly Missed Opportunities
Metro and City ignored approved bikeway plans - again. Alameda Esplanade and 5th Street bus queue jumper still on the way.
June 23, 2023
Mixed Results from L.A.’s ‘BLAST’ Bikeway Initiative
Initial program ends this month - of 24 projects announced, so far: Four sweet new bikeways, four traffic circles, and not much else
June 5, 2023
