Transportation news for Santa Monica.
Join Santa Monica Mayor Ted Winterer for the first monthly community bike ride of his tenure on Sunday, January 29. The roughly six-mile ride (about an hour to an hour and 20 minutes long) will start outside of City Hall…
While the incoming president has threatened to turn back many of the gains made in environmental conservation and fighting global climate change, Santa Monica remains committed to being a sustainability leader in 2017 and beyond. The city, which has long…
The Santa Monica Police Department will be on the lookout for traffic violations that contribute to crashes involving bicyclists, pedestrians, and drivers this Friday, Jan. 6 and Monday, Jan. 8. “The Police Department periodically identifies locations where bike and pedestrian…
This story originally ran on Streetsblog L.A. U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx was in Los Angeles this morning to announce $1.6 billion in federal funds for Metro to extend the Purple Line subway to Century City. The federal funding includes a $1.187…
This past year, Santa Monica continued to advance some very progressive policies aimed at sharing the city’s increasing prosperity with as wide a swath of residents, workers, and other members of the community as possible. Still, this year’s headlines also…
Santa Monica tomorrow will join the ranks of cities using real-time information to encourage biking. The beachside city, known for its increasing bike-friendliness, will host an official ribbon cutting Wednesday at noon for its first real-time bike traffic counter (click…
This article originally ran on California Streetsblog last week. Wasting no time, lawmakers opened the first day of the California legislative session by introducing a slew of bills and resolutions to get things started. The two biggest bills—S.B. 1 from Senator Jim…
The following was a press release issued by the City of Santa Monica and Big Blue Bus. On December 6, 2016 Santa Monica City Council approved a two-year pilot Youth Pass Program reducing the price of the Big Blue Bus…
Two months ago, the City of Santa Monica launched Car Free Fridays, a monthly initiative aimed at getting people to try new ways of getting around. Today is the most recent Car Free Friday. With the arrival of the Expo…
Regular readers of Metro’s blogsite, The Source, know that one of the best features is the videos. Last week, Metro unveiled its newest video in the “Go Metro” series, a review of the Santa Monica Downtown Farmer’s Market. For The…
On Facebook, Santa Monica Walks is asking for your help re-identifying some of the most dangerous experiences in Santa Monica. Following, the passage of the city’s Pedestrian Action Plan and and safety improvements going in throughout the city, the city…
Happy 5th birthday to our BFFs at Bike Center. They have a party planned tonight that if it weren’t my own birthday I would be happy to attend. The details are in the picture above or you can read more,…
Last January, WaiveCar launched in Venice and Santa Monica, but now the company has plans to allow licensed drivers access to “free cars” throughout Los Angeles. The free car-sharing company put twenty vehicles on the ground and generated revenue through…
In the wake of a deeply divisive and hard fought election, both locally and nationally, Santa Monica City Manager Rick Cole is calling for unity and a celebration of what makes Santa Monica special at this Saturday’s 1st birthday party…
On Wednesday, the Metro Planning and Programming Committee approved funding to expand Metro Bike Share in 2017. Operated by Bicycle Transit Systems, Metro Bike Share opened in downtown L.A. in July. In 2017, Metro would expand bike-share to new service areas…
