I’m returned to Santa Monica this week from attending the California by Bike Summit in Oakland, with the theme of mainstreaming the bike in California, and a few extra days in the Bay Area and San Francisco as well. There…
Last week was the latest workshop to discuss proposals for improving biking and walking access to the Santa Monica High School campus, for which the city has been awarded partial grant funding through the Safe Routes to School program. Diagrams…
Tomorrow, Saturday the 26th, will be the concluding weekend event of Los Angeles Walks, Walktoberfest events. I’m leading this Santa Monica walk, and we will be taking a tour of some projects in the Expo Line corridor of Santa Monica.…
We’ve been covering the public process of the Michigan Ave. Neighborhood Greenway proposals since the launch of Santa Monica Next, but there is also related and overlapping project specific just to the area around Santa Monica High School funded by…
There has been a lot of debate and scrutiny over the vision of finally connecting rail service to the LAX terminals (this Metro Source post is a good primer on state of things), correcting what many lampoon as a great…
At the first workshop for the Memorial Park Neighborhood Plan, there was a lot of enthusiasm for the possibility of capping the freeway with a park (from 17th to 14th, although former mayor Mike Feinstein advocated for extending it to 11th…
A new specific area plan process in Santa Monica is kicking off next Monday for what is being called the Memorial Park Neighborhood Plan, encompassing the area immediately adjacent Memorial Park and the future Metro station at 17th, with a…
At the Santa Monica city council tonight the city is considering an item (7-D), a first reading of a possible ordinance change, to exempt state issued sticker “clean air” vehicles from payment at parking meters indefinitely by removing the language…
So CicLAvia, everyone’s favorite open streets event (as in open to all uses that aren’t automobiles) is returning this Sunday from 9:00am to 4:00pm to the famous “Heart of Los Angeles” route (a variant of which started it all back…
Yesterday kicked off the month of “Walktober”, and the organization Los Angeles Walks is putting together a line up of events that began this morning and afternoon with super hero crosswalk defenders at several major intersections. The inspiration for the…
On Tuesday Night, the Santa Monica City Councilapproved a motion by a 5-1 vote (Bob Holbrook the dissenting vote and Pam O’Conner absent), to move forward with soliciting request for proposals (“shopping” as city attorney Moutrie referred to it), for a…
Glow is this Saturday (from 7:00pm into 3:00 am Sunday), and is one of the most unique public events in the city. Glow is held only once every other year, bringing together art, music, performance using the beach, the pier,…
With how busy this weekend has been with the Pop-Up MANGo event, the Streetsblog Los Angeles and Santa Monica Next fundraising event, I didn’t get a chance to put together a lengthy analysis of the bike share system proposals for…
This Sunday was the city’s Pop-Up MANGo event to demo and solicit input for possible neighborhood greenway proposals in the Michigan Ave. corridor of the Pico Neighborhood. It was well attended throughout the 11-3 event, by supporters, by detractors of…
In considering the frequently invoked environmentalist mantra, “think globally, act locally”, I’ve come to think of it as a phrase with a missing middle, that could benefit from also thinking and acting regionally. In Santa Monica our big immediate local…
