Press releases and official announcements from Santa Monica.
This article first appeared at Streetsblog Los Angeles. Lead photo by Joe Linton Last week, Metro board committees met to discuss and decide various items. Committee approvals are preliminary, pending approval at the upcoming full Metro board meeting on December 5. Outsourcing…
The following piece first appeared at Streetsblog USA by Leah Shahum. Leah is the Founder and Director of the Vision Zero Network, bringing two decades of proven success championing movements to advance safe, healthy, active transportation. She serves on the…
This story first appeared at Streetsblog California. Two important reports came out recently, both detailing how federal transportation funding will result in higher greenhouse gas emissions, undermining other state and federal investments to reduce them. In almost every state, federal…
The story first appeared at Streetsblog Los Angeles. Puente Hills Landfill Park has been a “dream project” for Megan Horn, principal at Studio-MLA. “The design itself is really this nice combination of big, wide, open space with these small interventions,” says Horn.…
This post first appeared at Streetsblog Los Angeles. Photo:Busiton Metro transit ridership keeps on growing. The latest Metro ridership statistics show that October 2024 was the second consecutive month when Metro averaged more than a million daily weekday boardings. With 1,025,262 daily…
The following article first appeared on Streetsblog LA. Photos: Joe Linton Yesterday, the Metro Board Planning and Programming Committee approved a staff recommendation to revoke $435,000 worth of grant funds previously awarded to Culver City. The city had received $1.96…
The following article first appeared at Streetsblog USA. Main photo: Gage Skidmore The Trump administration has picked a “Road Rules: All Stars” alum to supervise the nation’s road network — but some transportation advocates say that his history of climate…
The following article first appeared at Streetsblog California. Two key Caltrans documents are being finalized this week, and there’s a last chance to submit comments on them before Friday. Both address the ways that Caltrans measures and accounts for new travel…
The following article first appeared at Streetsblog USA. This article was written by Emily Stutts. In 2022, when bike buses were gaining momentum in the United States, I led my first bike bus on Bike to School Day. After that experience I…
The following article first appeared at Streetsblog California. This weekend, people across the globe will observe World Day of Remembrance to commemorate loved ones lost to road crashes. There will be vigils, silent bike rides, stories, and speeches urging leaders to do…
This story first appeared at Streetsblog USA. A new analysis by Transportation for America shows that 70 percent of the money from the Biden administration’s signature infrastructure bill, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), funded car infrastructure projects, thanks largely (and perhaps…
The following post first appeared at Streetsblog Los Angeles. “Last month we hit a major milestone as we averaged more than one million boardings each weekday on our system,” Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins acclaimed at last month’s Metro board meeting.…
The following story first appeared at Streetsblog USA. Vote like your transportation future depends on it. A coalition of climate, disability and labor organizers are urging the next president to adopt a transportation agenda that helps accomplish goals from all of their…
A version of this story first appeared at Streetsblog Los Angeles. On Friday, Metro officially started using on-bus cameras to issue warnings to drivers parked in bus-only lanes or at bus stops. The initial phase includes lines 212 (on La…
The California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA) just announced which projects have been selected to receive grants under the Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program’s Cycle 7. Twenty-seven awards will receive a total of $1.3 billion from the program, which is…
