Press releases and official announcements from Santa Monica.
Streetsblog rode the city of Santa Monica’s Broadway Safety Project yesterday. Find SBLA’s brief project construction coverage earlier this year, see post or video. The project is open and appears complete. Added 10/6: A city representative responded that the project was “substantially completed” in…
Streetsblog California and Santa Monica Next are urging voters to reject Proposition 45. The measure is being pitched as a way to modernize the state’s landmark environmental protection law, the California Environmental Quality Act; but its impact would make it easier to…
This legislative session was a bit of an outlier. While the governor’s office has usually been a roadblock for some of our favorite legislation, this year it was the legislature that was the problem. Every piece of legislation that we…
Californians convicted of a third drunk-driving offense will lose their licenses for eight years, and those with four or more prior convictions face felony charges, under four bills Governor Gavin Newsom signed Friday, September 25. One bill is one named…
The following is a submission from Senator Ben Allen. California’s film and television industry, which has seen promising production numbers over the past year, received two additional lines of support that will establish a new tax credit to support jobs in post-production…
When the legislative session ended at midnight on September 1, the clock started ticking for Gavin Newsom. The Governor has until the end of the month to sign legislation into law or veto it. If he takes no action, the…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton says he wants to abolish the California Department of Motor Vehicles and slash annual vehicle registration fees to a flat $73. It’s being sold as a bold government-reform proposal, and it sure did generate a…
Every week Next republishes an article from City Manager Oliver Chi’s weekly newsletter. Some of the most important infrastructure work is the kind nobody sees, as evidenced by the work our Architecture Services Division and Airport Team just completed to…
The 2026 legislative session was gaveled to a close last night. What legislation is awaiting final approval from Governor Gavin Newsom and what failed to make it this year? The answers are below. Newsom has a dozen days to sign…
This is the last week for the legislature, and rather than give you another legislative update, Streetsblog wants to make it easier for our readers to get involved. Below are three action alerts for legislation that is still moving and…
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…
