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Can LA Make “Great Streets” If the Mayor Won’t Stand Up for Good Design?
Los Angeles, with its expanding transit network, is supposed to be in the process of shedding its cocoon of car-centricity and emerging, in the words of a recent Fast Company headline, as America's "next great walkable city." The city's streets, however, didn't change a whole lot under former mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. When Eric Garcetti was elected mayor in 2013, advocates thought he could provide the leadership to finally prioritize walking, biking, and transit on LA's streets.
May 19, 2015
Is LADOT’s New SF-Imported Chief the Antidote to LA’s Defeatist Attitude?
Should Mayor Eric Garcetti have hired someone with more Los Angeles experience to run Los Angeles' Department of Transportation? With San Francisco's Seleta Reynolds chosen as the incoming department head, there's been a small buzz that only someone with direct experience with our region can handle making L.A. a better place to live. It has to be someone with local experience, they say.
July 22, 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
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
Seleta Reynolds of SFMTA Livable Streets Named Head of LADOT
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has nominated Seleta Reynolds to be the new general manager for the city’s Transportation Department (LADOT.) From preliminary research on Reynolds’s background, this looks like great news. Reynolds currently works for San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) where her focus had been livable streets, with a focus on building more equitable streets.
June 20, 2014
“Browndoggle”? Efforts to Use HSR as Cudgel Against CA Dems Fizzle
"The Browndoggle."
November 8, 2012
The National Women’s Bicycling Summit: This Is Not a Bike
Leah Missbach Day, co-founder of World Bicycle Relief and keynote speaker at last week's National Women's Bicycling Summit, in Long Beach, California, was very succinct with her main point about a bike:
September 18, 2012
How Handicap Placard Abuse Threatens SF’s Parking Reforms
If cities needed any more reason to curb handicap placard abuse, here it is. The authors of a new study out of Los Angeles point out that rampant placard abuse threatens to undermine performance parking programs like SFPark by skewing the data and the price of parking, the Atlantic Cities explains:
August 31, 2012
Sunnyvale Latest City to Consider Anti-Harassment Law for Bike Riders
A groundbreaking law adopted in Los Angeles almost one year ago that allows bicycle riders to take civil action against drivers who harass them continues to generate local and national interest, with Sunnyvale becoming the latest city to consider enacting protections.
July 9, 2012
Lance Armstrong, L.A.’s Mayor Push Brown on S.B. 910
Bicycling superstar Lance Armstrong and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa have joined forces again. Their target: Governor Jerry Brown. Their message: sign S.B. 910, the state's three foot passing law that would protect cyclists from drivers who pass too close and too fast.
October 3, 2011