Transportation news for Santa Monica.
We say this a lot, but this week really is a busy week in Santa Monica. Hear from Santa Monica Mayor Tony Vazquez and City Manager Rick Cole at the State of the City, celebrate the end of Hack the…
This post originally appeared in The Healthy City Local. For about 20 years I’ve commuted by bike from my home in Ocean Park to my office in downtown Santa Monica. My route takes me north on Fourth Street, which means crossing…
As the value captured from the state’s gas tax continues to fall, and the conditions of the California’s roads and bridges continues to worsen, state leaders unveiled a plan last week to pilot a program that could lead to replacing…
Expo Phase 2 has entered into one of the last stages of testing before it opens later this year, which means it is only a matter of months before it starts transporting passengers between Downtown L.A. and Downtown Santa Monica.…
Celebrate the end of one man’s cross-country journey by bike-share with a special Handlebar Happy Hour, get ready for the Expo line with some important meetings about train safety, volunteer for Santa Monica’s annual homeless count, and Laemmle reopens its…
Friday marked an important milestone in the progress of Expo Phase II. The Expo Construction Authority officially handed over control of the Expo Phase II track to L.A. Metro for the county transit agency to begin pre-revenue service. [pullquote align=left] “Today…
At the end of last year, we asked you to weigh in on what were some of your favorite Santa Monica Next stories of 2015. Your answers covered the gamut and included topics as diverse as our Throwback Thursday series,…
“The Santa Monica Life” is a weekly roundup of the local fun, food, drinks, and lifestyle goings-on in Santa Monica. When the fun is so close, it’s easy to leave the car at home and walk, bike, or bus to…
This article first appeared on Streetsblog Los Angeles. An overflow crowd of more than one hundred people showed up to last night’s Expo Bike Path meeting at the Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library. A representative from Councilmember Paul Koretz welcomed the boisterous crowd…
WaiveCar, an ad-supported car-share service, launched in Santa Monica and Venice this week with an all-electric fleet of 20 vehicles available to users for free. The free car-share service is supported by ads companies take out on the cars themselves,…
This article first appeared on Streetsblog California. Listen to its author, SBCA editor Melanie Curry, discuss California Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed 2016 budget with California Streets Initiative Executive Director Damien Newton on this week’s #DamienTalks podcast. You can download the episode at the #DamienTalks…
When Metro’s 6.6-mile Expo Line opens in mid-2016, the parallel Expo bikeway will open too. Except where it won’t. Two stretches of Expo bike path under construction are nearing completion. Unfortunately there is a 0.7-mile gap between them. Next week…
Streetsblog California* named Assemblymember Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) “Legislator of the Year” for its first-ever statewide Streetsie awards. SBCA tapped Bloom, who sat on the Santa Monica City Council from 1999 until 2012 when he was elected to the State…
For their role in helping to make Breeze Bike Share — L.A. County’s first public bike-share system — happen, Hulu and CycleHop have been nominated together for 2015 Livable Streets-Friendly Business Streetsie award. CycleHop is company behind the “smart bike”…
It’s time to vote for 2015 Streetsie Awards and Santa Monica is represented in two of this year’s six categories: Elected Official of the Year and Civil Servant of the Year. State Assemblymember Richard Bloom is up for the Elected…
