Transportation news for Santa Monica.
California lawmakers have introduced Assembly Bill 1942, also known as the E-Bike Accountability Act, as part of the 2025-26 legislative session. Sponsored by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda), the bill would require owners of Class 2 and Class 3 electric bicycles to…
Story via the City Manager’s Weekly Update. I’m excited to share that in early 2026, we are seeing encouraging signs of continued ridership recovery and growth in our renowned Big Blue Bus transit system! In January 2026, Big Blue Bus…
(Sean Noonan is an environmental planner. He also teaches urban planning at CSU, Fullerton. This is the second time he’s written on Vehicle Miles Traveled analysis in California with Streetsblog. Want to share your own thoughts and research on VMT? Email damien@streetsblog.org)…
The L.A. City Department of Transportation shared proposed locations for the city’s speed camera pilot program, now expected to get underway later this year. For a 30-day period starting today, LADOT is seeking public comment on the locations and the program.…
Via reader Eli Gill comes this picture, taken earlier this morning, of construction of the Broadway protected bikeway at its intersection with 6th Street. The City of Santa Monica is implementing the Broadway Safety Project, which includes upgrading Broadway with…
In early 2026, California’s plan to explore replacing its long-standing gas tax with a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) fee ignited a firestorm of public debate and online outrage. Headlines and social media feeds on the conservative right lit up with…
Lead Photo: Memorial where a driver killed three crashing into 99 Ranch Market on Westwood Boulevard. Photos by Joe Linton Last week saw two tragic Westside car crashes where drivers killed four people. Both killings took place in locations where livable…
City staff and Santa Monica Spoke will host a free community bike ride on Sunday, Feb. 15, offering residents a firsthand look at recent First/Last Mile safety improvements in the Bergamot Area. The event begins at 9 a.m. at Ishihara…
California lawmakers are advancing a bill that could reframe how housing, transportation, and infrastructure projects are approved in urbanized coastal communities, seeking to balance environmental protections with the state’s urgent housing and climate goals. Assembly Bill 1740 (AB 1740) — introduced…
Santa Monica police have redeployed bike patrol units in Downtown and along the Pier and beach areas, restoring a visible law enforcement presence in some of the city’s busiest pedestrian corridors. The move was announced in the city manager’s weekly…
A growing chorus of elected officials representing Santa Monica are pressing Caltrans to stop treating bike safety as an afterthought and instead deliver a long-planned protected bicycle connection at the same time it repaves Santa Monica Boulevard. In letters sent…
The following is from the City Manager’s Weekly Newsletter. With Palisades High School returning to its home campus in Pacific Palisades this week, Big Blue Bus has restored its Route 9 Palisades High Express trips, providing direct, reliable service between…
The city of West Hollywood is painting its existing bike lanes green. In April 2025, the WeHo City Council approved greening its bike lanes. In West Hollywood’s two square miles, there are only three streets with bike lanes: Fairfax Avenue, San…
Even after the exceptional reporting by CalMatters in its License to Kill series, which demonstrated how California is failing its residents through lax enforcement and weak traffic safety laws, the 2025 Legislature still failed to pass Assembly Bill 366. AB 366 was a modest effort…
Waymo is releasing new details about a January collision in which one of its autonomous vehicles struck a child near a Santa Monica elementary school, saying its self-driving system significantly reduced the severity of the crash — even as the…
