Transportation news for Santa Monica.
Santa Monica’s push to fully electrify the Big Blue Bus fleet received another significant boost last week, with the city securing $3 million in new grant funding to help purchase nine additional battery-electric buses. The funding was awarded through the…
Image: A speed camera on 7th near Broadway in Oakland. Photo: Streetsblog/Roger Rudick Malibu is preparing to launch automated speed cameras on Pacific Coast Highway, nearly two years after state lawmakers voted to include the city in the pilot program…
Santa Monica-Malibu Unified schools are back in session today, and Juan Matute brings some images of a new Safe Routes to School Project at McKinley Elementary. A new traffic-calming installation at Santa Monica Boulevard and Chelsea Avenue is now in…
Yesterday, Next brought you video of a truck driver maliciously and intentionally driving over every bollard on the 23rd Street Protected bikeway. Within hours of the story being posted, Councilmember Dan Hall wrote on his Instagram post about the video…
Bicycle advocates have long argued that using plastic bollards to separate bicycles from automobile traffic is better than nothing, but that only concrete barriers will truly protect bicyclists. Sadly, this case is too often made when bicyclists in these “protected”…
The following is a submission from the city. Beginning Sunday, August 9, service improvements designed to make riding easier, faster, and more convenient go into effect! Riders will benefit from expanded service hours and enhanced access and connectivity on multiple…
Andrew Wright is the Communications Director for the California Bicycle Coalition (CalBike). California’s e-bike debate often begins with restrictions: Who should be allowed to ride? Where should they ride? Should throttles be permitted? The California Bicycle Coalition — under its educational arm,…
California transportation advocates are opening a third front in the battle to reverse the devastating cuts to transit caused by recent decisions of the California Air Resources Board. On one front, advocates are rallying in Sacramento next week to to urge…
With the legislature set to meet again next week, now is as good a time as any to look at the status of legislation of greatest interest to Streetsblog readers. We’re changing the format a little bit first noting the…
Waymos — the driverless taxis that operate in many cities — are involved in 68-percent fewer crashes than humans, a new independent study found. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety report compared state and federal crash data with incident reports from major…
Image: Mayor Bass speaking at Metro’s State of the Agency event. Photos by Joe Linton/Streetsblog At yesterday’s Metro State of the Agency event, outgoing Metro Board Chair Fernando Dutra handed the ceremonial gavel to incoming Board Chair L.A. Mayor Karen…
Given the ongoing discussions of Waymos and their use in Santa Monica, Next thought folks might find this story from Streetsblog NYC of interest. Image via the Streetsblog NYC Photoshop department. Are Waymo cars safer? Maybe. But will they make…
Last week, Santa Clarita City Councilmember Jason Gibbs was elected to the Metro board. Gibbs was approved by his subregion, and still faces one remaining county committee approval. Gibbs will replace outgoing boardmember Glendale Councilmember Ara Najarian in representing the…
Culver City recently upgraded its two-way protected bikeway along Elenda Street. Elenda was already a comfortable safe place to ride since the city installed armadillo-type bikeway protection back in 2021. See that bikeway in Streetsblog L.A.’s armadillo-spotting video.
Assemblymember Rick Zbur’s Assembly Bill 1740 is likely headed for Assembly approval, but the bill lawmakers are considering is far narrower than it was when it was first introduced in February. For months, the legislation was moving through the Senate,…
