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For their role in helping to make Breeze Bike Share — L.A. County’s first public bike-share system — happen, Hulu and CycleHop have been nominated together for 2015 Livable Streets-Friendly Business Streetsie award. CycleHop is company behind the “smart bike”…
It’s time to vote for 2015 Streetsie Awards and Santa Monica is represented in two of this year’s six categories: Elected Official of the Year and Civil Servant of the Year. State Assemblymember Richard Bloom is up for the Elected…
The number of car-share vehicles in Santa Monica will more than quadruple next year thanks to an agreement between the city and Zipcar. While the car-share company currently has 12 vehicles parked at private, off-street parking spaces throughout the city, the…
With only about 10 days left in 2015, we thought we’d ask our readers to tell us what their favorite Santa Monica Next stories of the last year have been. Maybe you particularly liked one of our Throwback Thursday pieces. Perhaps you enjoyed…
Santa Monica’s Breeze Bike Share — the first public bike-share system in L.A. County — officially launched on November 12 and a month later, it’s getting a lot of use. The 500-bike, 79-station system, which is sponsored by the Santa Monica-based…
To help pay for increased service hours and incentivize riders to use passes, the Big Blue Bus will restructure its fares starting on January 10, 2016. The fare restructuring plan, which was approved in October by the Santa Monica City…
No doubt you are being inundated with many worthwhile nonprofits asking you to make a year-end contribution. Santa Monica Next is no exception. If you value the work we do at Next, we ask that you please consider donating today…
An 18-wheel truck making an illegal left turn across Expo light rail tracks in Santa Monica collided with a test train yesterday, according to the Santa Monica Police Department. While there were no passengers on the train, there was a…
It only took about four years, but a small, mixed-use housing project with 26 proposed homes on a commercial stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard on the east side of town is headed to the Planning Commission next Wednesday. As proposed, the…
Next week, the Expo Construction Authority — which oversees construction of the Exposition Light Rail project — is anticipating handing over the Phase II right-of-way to Metro, which will begin regular train testing or “pre-revenue” service, according to a report…
In a highly unusual move, the Santa Monica Housing Commission is considering two competing reports that outline recommended strategies to tackle the city’s growing housing affordability crisis. [pullquote align=left] “[W]e do not believe any new market rate or mixed use…
This post originally ran on our sister site, Streetsblog California. Bike-share is excellent in multiple ways. It eases traffic congestion in large, dense cities. It increases transit use in suburbs and smaller cities. And in all kinds of cities, it…
Update: The Santa Monica City Council voted 6-to-0 (Councilmember Pam O’Connor was absent) Tuesday night to approve this project. The Santa Monica City Council will consider approving a 4-to-5 story mixed-use apartment building that, if approved, would add 90…
By now you’ve gotten at least a dozen emails about #GivingTuesday asking you to donate to an important and worthy non-profit. Today, throughout California staff are working on stories and podcasts to cover and explain issues both locally and statewide.…
The West L.A. Veterans Administration (VA) campus is planning for a major overhaul to provide much needed supportive housing for veterans. Officials want your input in shaping the plans. Officials will hold a public meeting in the east wing of…
