News from Santa Monica.
A recent post on the Wall Street Journal noted that White House economists have been wringing their hands over local land use policies throughout the country. The problem, according to Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic…
Update: The Santa Monica City Council unanimously approved three locations for the city’s pilot parklet program. The three locations include the two recommended by staff and a third at Main and Hill in front of Finn McCool’s. The Santa Monica…
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include comments from more community leaders. A first-hand account of a police action that ran in the Washington Post’s Opinion Page on Wednesday has raised questions in Santa Monica about race and law…
If you’re like me, you rely pretty heavily on Internet and smart-phone based real-time transit arrival information when getting around. Santa Monica’s newest public transportation option — Breeze Bike Share — has been incorporated into the real-time transportation arrival app,…
This week, get ready for Santa Monica’s transportation revolution with Climate Action Santa Monica, celebrate International Education Week at Santa Monica College, kick off SMC Public Policy Institute’s Fall Forum on the arts, and have a very merry un-birthday at…
Today, Santa Monica launched Breeze Bike Share, the first public bike-share system in Los Angeles County. To celebrate, more than 100 early subscribers, city staffers, and elected officials went for an inaugural ride in front of City Hall. Breeze’s…
The first public bike-share system in Los Angeles County opened today to much fanfare. Santa Monica’s Breeze bike-share features 500 bicycles at 75 stations throughout the city of Santa Monica, plus four in adjacent Venice. The system is run by…
Santa Monica is really making strides in the active transportation department these days. It’s about to launch the first public bike-share system in L.A. County and now, the city has its first protected bike lane. It’s a short, one-block stretch…
Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights, the single most influential political organization in town, ousted one of its original activists — and a member of more than 40 years — from the organization’s steering committee Sunday, citing real estate development as…
Santa Monica has officially announced November 12 as the day for Breeze Bike Share’s full roll out, which will make it the first public bike-share system in Los Angeles County. The full roll out on November 12 will include music,…
This week, Santa Monica released a draft of its Pedestrian Action Plan, a comprehensive, 100+ page policy document for creating better streets for people over the next 15 years. At the top of the priorities in the draft Ped Action…
Meals on Wheels West’s primary mission is to deliver food to people who are homebound, whether due to age, physical disability, or for mental health issues, but in reality, the local nonprofit does much, much more. Santa Monica Next sat…
We’re getting excited about the upcoming Bike Summit organized by the California Bicycle Coalition. It’s not too late to register for the biannual event, which will take place on October 25-28 in San Diego. Some of the highlights we’re hoping…
We have gotten pretty regular reminders that Expo phase two is almost complete and will soon be transporting passengers through our fair city. Some reminders have been big and others have been smaller, though not any less exciting. In the…
What if your phone told not only when your next bus was coming, but also how full it was? Or, if there were spaces available on its bike rack? What if, when you moved to Santa Monica, you were automatically…
