Transportation news for Santa Monica.
Step off the Metro train at the 17th Street/SMC stop in Santa Monica and you’re greeted by an uninviting industrial scene dominated by a large city maintenance yard. Memorial Park is off in the distance, obscured by unattractive lines of…
Summer may be almost over, but there is still plenty to do. This week, join PUBLIC Bikes + Gear to celebrate GoSaMo, the city’s multimodal initiative; head to Stewart Park for more Jazz on the Lawn; join in the Family…
Los Angeles Councilmember Mike Bonin joined Santa Monica Mayor Tony Vazquez early Monday morning to officially install the first of five Breeze Bike Share hubs in Venice. The new station, which is located at 5th Street and Rose, is the…
The post originally ran at Streetsblog California. The California legislature returned from its summer break last week and now has one month to finish all the business it started in this session. If it can. Pending issues include a bill…
This article was originally published on California Streetsblog on August 2, 2016. No, this is not about a bill to allow bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs, sorry. This is about a bill that supposedly set out to…
This week, take a walk around Santa Monica Airport with LA Walks to learn about current issues facing the airport, hang out at Stewart Park while enjoying free live music, head to the Promenade for a picnic, and check out…
This article originally appeared on Streetsblog Los Angeles. This week marks a noteworthy anniversary. The first city-scale zoning law in the United States was enacted on July 25, 1916, in New York City. The New York Times tells the story in an…
In order to make it easier to get to the Twilight Concert Series this summer without driving, the Big Blue Bus is making a few changes. The local transit agency will be rerouting several of its bus lines in order…
Eight months after Santa Monica launched the first public bike-share program in L.A. County, the system is working. According to a report delivered to the City Council Tuesday night, Breeze Bike Share is nearing 30,000 “active subscribers” and has been…
Walking in Downtown Santa Monica is about to get a little bit more fun. Santa Monica is moving forward with a “creative crosswalks” pilot program that could transform two intersections in Downtown Santa Monica into colorful works of art with designs…
Medicare turns 51 this year and County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl will be joined on Sunday by other elected officials and community leaders for a garden party in Santa Monica to celebrate and promote even more progressive healthcare reform. On Saturday,…
Come August 1, Santa Monica’s Breeze Bike Share is going to get cheaper for most users when the system’s pricing structure overhaul goes into effect. In addition to increasing the daily ride time for members from 60 to 90 minutes,…
Santa Monica’s second protected bikeway is getting the green treatment. The five-block protected cycle track that runs along Colorado Avenue from the new Downtown Santa Monica Expo Station at 5th Street to the Santa Monica Pier is finally getting some…
Who doesn’t love a free concert? But, also, who doesn’t like waiting in traffic on their way to or from a free concert? We suspect the answers are almost nobody and almost everybody respectively. The good news is that tonight…
This article originally appeared on Streetsblog California. Caltrans has always said that one of its main concerns was the safety of road users, but its focus has been squarely on people in cars, to the detriment of others. The department…
