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The following article first appeared at Streetsblog. Governor Newsom was busy over the weekend, signing around 330 bills and vetoing another 140 of them. There are somewhere around 260 bills left for him to deal with by the October 14…

Marina Central Park would remove the three-mile-long, six-plus lane Marina Freeway (SR-90) and replace it with new housing, parks, bus rapid transit, and bikeways

The following is a press release from the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) continues to be interested in purchasing and rehabilitating the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (Civic), currently owned by the City of…

Transportation is the largest contributor to climate emissions and pollution in California. Knowing this, state leaders have set goals to reduce those emissions in various ways, including increasing the number of “clean” vehicles in the mix. But the state Air Resources…

“Please assure your grandson that Wonder Woman will not be on the trains,” Mayor and Metro Board Chair Karen Bass told Juanita Medina, a long time transit user concerned that LAPD was going to be testing out the efficacy of the BolaWrap…

The following article first appeared at Streetsblog California. Caltrans has long promised to develop guidelines for building complete streets. The guidance is close to being released – but somewhere along the way, highway interchanges were exempted from them. This exemption…

This post first appeared at Streetsblog California. “We’re not the first ones to point this stuff out,” said David Weiskopf, Senior Policy Advisor with Next Gen, about its new report “California at a Crossroads,” which calls for an end to “California’s traffic-creating,…

This is a lightly edited press release and image from the City of Santa Monica. Starting last Saturday, visitors to the Third Street Promenade can see a unique projection on one of Santa Monica’s most iconic buildings. In a week-long project titled Art of Time, artist Drasko V uses his artistic vision…

The following is a press release from the City of Santa Monica. Beginning Saturday, September 23, 2023, visitors to the Third Street Promenade will see a unique projection on one of Santa Monica’s most iconic buildings. In a week-long project titled Art of Time, artist Drasko V will use his artistic vision to integrate real-time environmental data…

This post first appeared at Streetsblog California. Politico reports that Caltrans’ Deputy Director of Planning and Modal Programs, Jeanie Ward-Waller, is being “reassigned” in the department. Politico is calling the move a “shakeup.” Let’s name it more precisely: Jeanie Ward-Waller, advocate…

The following is an open letter from SMMUSD Superintendent Dr. Antonio Shelton Dear SMMUSD Family and Community, It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of Dr. Jacqueline Mora, Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services, following a five-month,…

Join the Transportation Revolution! On September 21st SAMOCAN will be having Michael Schneider, a native-born Angeleno, who started Streets For All to change LA’s built environment from being car-centric to being multi-modal. Michael will walk us through his story, what led him…

The California legislature passed a bill today that would require all large corporations that do business in California to measure and publicly report their carbon emissions. S.B. 253 is a first-in-the-nation bill from Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who successfully fought off…

This article first appeared at Streetsblog California. After an arduous and digressive journey, Assemblymember Laura Friedman’s bill to allow a few cities to test whether cameras can help curb dangerous speeding passed out of the legislature. A.B. 645 grew exponentially more complex…