Car Culture Perpetuates Its Own Misery, Enough Scapegoating Bicycling
I'm accustomed to seeing the Santa Monica Daily Press littered with largely petty and baseless characterizations of bicycling as some plot to ruin the...
We’ll Be Fine
There is little doubt that the Expo station adjacent Hines mixed use project proposal (at the site of the long shuttered Papermate factory), which...
Twilight Series To Be Scaled Back, & Thoughts On The Relativity of Public Safety Concern
The Santa Monica city council voted to scale back the Twilight Concert series in 2014, due to potential risk factors to public safety outlined by...
Bounded Rationalities & The Local Discourse
For my first post of the New Year, I’d like to talk about the concept of bounded rationality, a phrase introduced to me recently...
State of Expo Phase II Bikeway Corridor, & the Biggest Remaining Concerns
This past Sunday members of the Expo Bicycle Advisory Committee (Expo BAC, of which I am a member), and a few members of Santa...
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SMC Continues Free Literary Talks & Readings Series April 3
The following article is a submission from SMC.Santa Monica...
Wiener Introduces Legislation to Increase Housing Density Near Transit
This story also appears at Streetsblog California.Flanked by Bay...
Culver Beats Santa Monica, CityBus Launching Automated Bus Lane Enforcement
After a succesful pilot program in 2023, Santa Monica...
Pacific Park’s World-Famous Ferris Wheel To ‘Go Dark’ During Earth Hour 2025, Marks 19th Edition With The ‘Biggest Hour For Earth’
The following is a submission from the Pier Corporation.On...