Transportation news for Santa Monica.
Carter Rubin is a Santa Monica resident and serves as an advisory board member of Santa Monica Next. Carter has served as an appointed member on the Santa Monica Housing, Planning and Pier Commissions. Carter earned a B.A. in political…
Anyone that thought the Great Scooter Debate of 2018 was over after the City Council approved a pilot program earlier this year was jolted back to a harsh reality after the SMPD conducted an aggressive “scooter crackdown” last Friday. SMPD…
Los Angeles has CicLAvia, and Santa Monica has COAST. Los Angeles’ next car-free party is this weekend in the Valley. Santa Monicans that aren’t looking to travel will have to wait for the fall. COAST, the city’s car-free, open streets…
“Not Exactly One Bill to Rule Them All” first appeared on Streetsblog California. A state bill, A.B. 2989, focuses on defining stand-up electric scooters and safety regulations that apply to them, but does not weigh in on questions about rental or…
Last night, the Santa Monica City Council unanimously rejected the staff proposal to cap the number of electric rental scooters in the city to 500 per operator and 1500 total. While the scooter cap could have been raised in the…
Tonight, the Santa Monica City Council is scheduled to vote on a series of regulations for “dockless electronic scooters” at their regularly scheduled 5:30 City Council meeting (item 7B on this agenda). The meeting is the city’s first attempt to regulate…
Release via SMFD– On Monday at 10:30 a.m. Santa Monica Firefighters responded to City Parking Structure # 5 located at 1440 4th Street for a report of a vehicle hanging off the side of the 5th floor parking level. Fire…
The city of Santa Monica is proposing new regulations for e-scooters and e-bikes. The staff proposal (item 7B on this agenda) is scheduled for a city council decision next Tuesday night. Santa Monica was the initial location for app-based shared…
This post originally appeared on Streetsblog CA. Assemblymember Laura Friedman has been working on A.B. 2363 – a bill to fix long-standing issues with speed limits in California. In its first committee hearing this week, the bill was amended to create…
From West Hollywood to the beach in Santa Monica, several bike-share systems run by CycleHop have officially integrated into a regional bike-share system. Yesterday marked the first day that the four CycleHop-run bike-share systems on the Westside — Santa Monica’s…
Four years after a major realignment of service and facing declining ridership, the Big Blue Bus will once again go before the City Council to discuss the future of the regional transit agency. The staff report for Tuesday’s Council meeting,…
This post originally appeared on Streetsblog California. It’s February, so all bills that did not get passed by their first house by now, in either the California Assembly or Senate, are being officially declared dead. Unfortunately, among them are some…
This post originally appeared on Santa Monica Next’s sister site, Los Angeles Streetsblog. Since 2016, the media has been reporting that Metro ridership is declining. But how bad is the problem and what is causing it? A report out this week takes a hard look…
The following post is by Kevin Herrera, sr. marketing & communication manager for Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. It originally appeared on Santa Monica Centric. Downtown seems to be littered with them. On almost every street corner you can find a Bird…
After a woman riding an electric scooter was injured in a crash earlier this week, the city of Santa Monica issued safety tips for using the increasingly popular mode of transportation. The woman, according to the Santa Monica Daily Press,…
