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UPDATE: The revised Downtown Santa Monica Community Plan is now available at downtownsmplan.net. A revised version of the plan that will determine the future of planning in Downtown Santa Monica will be released Friday, according to city officials. The Downtown Santa…
The Internet has been abuzz recently over the recent L.A. Times article, “Billions spent, but fewer people are using public transportation in Southern California.” The responses were myriad, with people discussing the many reasons why L.A. County public transit ridership might be…
Community Corporation of Santa Monica, the city’s single-largest nonprofit provider of affordable housing, has revamped its website in the hopes of improving accessibility. “We decided to completely rebuild the Community Corp. website to ensure that it was a more useful…
Laemmle Monica Film Center reopens to the public in Downtown Santa Monica; 626 Night Market comes to Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar; a local favorite hotspot gets a speakeasy and new name; Metro says Expo Phase II will open in May;…
Hack the Beach, Santa Monica’s four-month-long civic innovation competition, will reach its climax Thursday evening at the State of the City event when a winner will be announced from one of seven finalists. Thursday’s event is the culmination of the…
As the value captured from the state’s gas tax continues to fall, and the conditions of the California’s roads and bridges continues to worsen, state leaders unveiled a plan last week to pilot a program that could lead to replacing…
Expo Phase 2 has entered into one of the last stages of testing before it opens later this year, which means it is only a matter of months before it starts transporting passengers between Downtown L.A. and Downtown Santa Monica.…
Friday marked an important milestone in the progress of Expo Phase II. The Expo Construction Authority officially handed over control of the Expo Phase II track to L.A. Metro for the county transit agency to begin pre-revenue service. [pullquote align=left] “Today…
At the end of last year, we asked you to weigh in on what were some of your favorite Santa Monica Next stories of 2015. Your answers covered the gamut and included topics as diverse as our Throwback Thursday series,…
This article first appeared on Streetsblog Los Angeles. An overflow crowd of more than one hundred people showed up to last night’s Expo Bike Path meeting at the Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library. A representative from Councilmember Paul Koretz welcomed the boisterous crowd…
WaiveCar, an ad-supported car-share service, launched in Santa Monica and Venice this week with an all-electric fleet of 20 vehicles available to users for free. The free car-share service is supported by ads companies take out on the cars themselves,…
This article first appeared on Streetsblog California. Listen to its author, SBCA editor Melanie Curry, discuss California Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed 2016 budget with California Streets Initiative Executive Director Damien Newton on this week’s #DamienTalks podcast. You can download the episode at the #DamienTalks…
When Metro’s 6.6-mile Expo Line opens in mid-2016, the parallel Expo bikeway will open too. Except where it won’t. Two stretches of Expo bike path under construction are nearing completion. Unfortunately there is a 0.7-mile gap between them. Next week…
Streetsblog California* named Assemblymember Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) “Legislator of the Year” for its first-ever statewide Streetsie awards. SBCA tapped Bloom, who sat on the Santa Monica City Council from 1999 until 2012 when he was elected to the State…
Inspired by our friends at Los Angeles Streetsblog, who recently previewed the upcoming big livable streets events for 2016, we thought we’d take a look forward at Santa Monica’s future. At least to those things we can predict. This year…
