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CicLAvia Opens the West San Fernando Valley 2023 – Open Thread
Tens of thousands of people on foot and bike - plenty of puddles, cold winds, and a few downed trees - but mercifully no actual rain
February 27, 2023
Opinion: Electric Cars Shouldn’t Distract Us From Building a More Walkable World
"Governments champion EVs to win voter support, and corporations offer optimistic product projections to lure investors. The reality is that electric cars will be less of a solution than presently expected."
February 27, 2023
Lawmaker, Walk S.F., Renew Support for Vision Zero
Walk San Francisco and Supervisor Dean Preston try again to get San Francisco lawmakers and bureaucrats to value life over parking
February 27, 2023
February 2022 Metro Board Meeting Recap: Security, Homelessness, Valley Rail, and More
The Metro board meeting focused mostly on issues related to transit system security and homelessness. Also - brief updates on East San Fernando Valley light rail, ridership, and more.
February 27, 2023
San Francisco Advocates Launch Web Page to Track Slow Streets
What are Slow Streets? Where are they? And in what cities are the implemented? Now the answers are available for cities and advocates of livable streets.
February 24, 2023
La Brea Bus Lanes Installation Appears Stalled: Two Months Late, Three Miles Short
Will Mayor Bass exert the needed executive influence to ensure that L.A. implements citywide plans for a world class transit system?
February 23, 2023
Caltrans D4 Gets Another “Environmental” Award for Highway Widening
Why actually try to fight global warming and make a more sustainable future when you can just lie about it?
February 23, 2023
Talking Headways Podcast: Can Everyone be a Landscape Architect? No!
Let's talk about food deserts and transportation access and the American Society of Landscape Architects Climate Action Plan.
February 23, 2023
Three Ways DOTs Can Help the Unhoused — On and Off the Road
A new study finds that departments of transportation can and must do more to protect a particularly vulnerable group: the unhoused people who take shelter on and alongside American roads.
February 23, 2023
L.A. City Council Planning Committee Approves Motion to End Road Widening
The motion goes next to the full city council, and after that approval, city departments would report back within 60 days with recommendations on how the city can eliminate spot widenings
February 22, 2023
