Press releases and official announcements from Santa Monica.
Last week, the State of California dropped at least three long but important documents: reports on transportation needs, outcomes of transportation spending, and CAPTI 2.0. Streetsblog is aiming to produce summaries and some analysis of these reports quickly and later…
In 2023, the state legislature approved Senator Lena Gonzalez’ S.B. 695 which mandated Caltrans share project data publicly. One result of the new legislation is a new Caltrans’ report summing up five years of freeway expansion throughout the state. The report may…
Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur (D-Santa Monica) introduced AB 891, a bill that will require Caltrans to develop quick-build bike lane and intersection projects to improve safety on state highways for cyclists and pedestrians. A “quick build project” is a temporary,…
The following article also appears at Streetsblog. The Trump administration is quickly moving to radically transform the implementation of America’s bedrock environmental rule to ignore “environmental justice” and prioritize “efficiency and certainty over any other policy objectives” — a move…
Mayor Karen Bass promised a “car-free Olympics” when the games come to Los Angeles in 2028. Olympic Committee Chair for the L.A. Games promised 5,000 buses to transport fans, participants and volunteers…all of whom would be able to ride L.A.…
This story also appears at Streetsblog Los Angeles. Many Streetsblog readers and Metro riders already know this story: Metro ridership keeps on growing steadily. Recently released ridership data from January shows twenty-six consecutive months of increases. January 2025 saw 918,375…
Caption: This image from a presentation in March of 2024 shows the state’s plan for the next $35 billion of high speed rail funding. Only the top yellow part was from the federal government which will likely be pulled back…
Gesturing toward the nearly completed Wilshire/La Brea Metro station, U.S. Representative Laura Friedman warned “The Trump Administration proposed cuts to federal investments to support this stop, this train stop that is months away from opening.” “How crazy is that?” Metro…
Last month, Senator Scott Wiener introduced SB 71, a bill that seeks to streamline the state-mandated environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act for public transportation and bike and pedestrian infrastructure projects that reduce car dependency. Earlier this week, he…
As SBCA has been hearing over and over again these last couple of months, it’s time to get creative when planning how to fund active transportation in California. This Thursday, February 20, the California Bike Coalition is hosting a webinar…
On Monday, February 17, Metro will begin issuing $293 citations to cars parked in bus lanes or at bus stops. The new program is expected to improve bus speed and reliability, and increase ridership. Initially the program will ticket just…
Last Monday, California Assembly Transportation Committee Chair Lori Wilson (D-Fairfield) introduced A.B. 394, the first of what she promised would be a package of bills designed to improve public safety for users across the transportation sector. Wilson says the bill aims…
Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Irvine) was flanked by Senator Bob Archuleta (D-Pico Rivera), Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho, and a host of safety advocates and traffic enforcement officers to announce the introduction of A.B. 366, the Save Lives with Every Start bill.…
Welcome to the second episde of the Streetsblog California podcast, StreetSmart. In this podcast, I’ll be talking to experts about various topics, policies, programs, and people that I’ll be covering as part of the beat at Streetsblog California. Our guest…
The post first appeared at Streetsblog California. On January 1, California’s “Daylighting Law” went into effect and traffic enforcement agencies around the country are responding to it in different ways. For those of you unfamiliar with the term and missed…
