Zipcar Introduces New Flexibility Features, Including One-Way Trips in LA
At a downtown Los Angeles press event today, Zipcar representatives announced new car-share "flexibility" features. The new features, described below, are currently available uniquely in the Southern California market, and will be rolled out to other North American cities throughout 2016.
March 4, 2016
Joe’s Parking and Vision Zero Comics
It's a bit of shameless self-promotion, but I wanted to share of pair of comics pages that I drew. These comment on issues that many Streetsblog L.A. readers care about: parking and Vision Zero. I think that parking, of all the issues that dramatically affect cities, is highly misunderstood, and I wanted to see if I could use a fun visual medium to begin to scratch the surface of the insights I've learned from parking expert Donald Shoup.
February 17, 2016
Crowdsource Bicycling App ‘Ride Report’ Goes National Today
Since last September, Portland cyclists have been generating bike trip data via the free Ride Report app. Today, Ride Report has completed its Portland beta and is now open for use throughout the United States.
February 4, 2016
Awesome 11-Year-Old Defends Road Diet, Calls Out LA’s “Bullying” Drivers
In case you need a reason to feel confident about the next generation of livable streets advocates, check out this viral video of 11-year old Matlock Grossman, standing up for a road diet in his Los Angeles neighborhood.
September 21, 2015
Fix the Law That Criminalizes Pedestrians in California
In his insightful article "Struggling student a victim of high fines and misdemeanors," Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez clearly lays out the human cost of so-called "jaywalking" tickets. SBLA includes "jaywalking" in quotes because the term was invented by the auto lobby nearly a century ago to re-frame how people think about how streets should be used.
April 30, 2015
City of LA’s First Parking-Protected Bike Lanes Come to Reseda Boulevard
Yesterday, the city of Los Angeles installed its first ever parking-protected bike lanes. They're on Reseda Boulevard in Northridge, part of the mayor's Great Streets Initiative.
April 3, 2015
Thoughts at a Workshop On Replacing CA’s Gas Tax With a Mileage Fee
Earlier this week, I attended a California Sustainable Transportation Funding Workshop, hosted by Caltrans, Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), the California Transportation Commission (CTC), and the Mileage-Based User Fee Alliance (MBUFA). The half-day program focused on how the state of California could shift from our current gas tax funding stream to one based on a per-mile fee.
October 9, 2014
Sup. Kim Gives Warm Send-Off to SFMTA’s Seleta Reynolds, Headed to LA
For a quick preview of what Seleta Reynolds has to offer Los Angeles as the new chief of its Department of Transportation, watch this video of her commendation appearance before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors this week. Reynolds' item begins at 00:43.
July 11, 2014
Sheriffs Blame Cyclist Victim in OC Road Rage Bottle-Throwing Incident
On May 31st, 2014, Bryan Larsen was bicycling on a crowded stretch of Pacific Coast Highway in south Orange County. He began to notice a pattern of harassment by the occupants of a large white 4x4 Ram Truck, with Texas license plate 65-500. When passing cyclists, the truck would spew thick black coal-rolling exhaust.
July 10, 2014
Speaking With SFMTA’s Seleta Reynolds, Nominated to Head LADOT
Earlier today, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti nominated Seleta Reynolds to be the new general manager for LADOT. Streetsblog announced the nomination earlier today via this brief article, which includes the mayor's press release.
June 20, 2014