News from Santa Monica.
The Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation (SMMEF) — the Santa Monica-Malibu school district’s fundraising arm — raised nearly half-a-million dollars during its first-annual two-week Pledge Days drive. According to SMMEF officials, more than 702 families, employees, and community members donated money…
Update: Hulu bike-share sponsorship was approved by the Santa Monica City Council at its October 13 meeting. The Santa Monica-based online entertainment company, Hulu, may become the “presenting sponsor” of Santa Monica’s Breeze Bike Share, L.A. County’s first public bike-share…
One of the goals of an “Impact Journalism” website is to establish the editor as a a reputable source for legacy, or mainstream, media outlets with larger audiences. Over the past year and a half, we’ve been excited to watch…
Don’t forget that this Sunday is your chance to learn about all the exciting goings-on in Vancouver around the emerging bike culture there. Join us at 5 p.m. at 1640 5th Street in Downtown Santa Monica for food, drinks, and…
With Expo Phase 2 on schedule to open less than a year, things are really starting to coalesce. Most recently, we got a glimpse of the future: Expo Phase 2 bikeway in Santa Monica has been painted and is looking very much…
Streetsblog Los Angeles editor Joe Linton contributed to this report. What do you get when dozens of transportation professionals, technologists, and others interested in improving urban transportation networks all in one room at UCLA on a Saturday morning? The answer…
Four years after the City Council voted in favor of a development agreement with Colorado Creative Studios for the new 200,000-square-foot Santa Monica Gateway, construction has begun on the glass-and-metal creative office building. The project is located at the corner of Stewart Street…
Due to popular demand, CycleHop, the company running Santa Monica’s Breeze bike-share program, will extend the testing period past the October 1 date it was originally scheduled to end. Breeze, which is on track to be L.A. County’s first public…
Plans to transform the former Papermate factory in Santa Monica’s formerly industrial Bergamot Area into a mixed-use neighborhood with offices across the street from the Expo light rail station on 26th Street were killed last year. The proposed Bergamot Transit…
Do you have an innovative idea that can bring your city into the 21st century? How about a new app that will improve how we get around? Or how we interact with our local representatives? The city of Santa Monica…
The Santa Monica City Council will vote on an ordinance Tuesday that would raise the city-wide minimum wage to $15 an hour by July 1, 2020 for most businesses. As proposed, Santa Monica’s new living wage ordinance would mirror Los…
On her first day at the Santa Monica People’s Academy, Sabrina Fields had an eye-opening experience. The native of the bayside city decided to take the six-week course, offered by the city manager’s office to help residents better understand the…
This article originally ran on Streetsblog California. A new law just signed by Governor Jerry Brown will make it possible for bicyclists who are ticketed for certain infractions to attend a class on safe bicycle riding and thus reduce their fines.…
What is a healthy community? And what role does the built environment play in creating a healthy community? These were the questions tackled by a Westside Urban Forum panel Friday, moderated by UCLA Professor, Fred Zimmerman, who chairs the Department…
This article originally appeared in Streetsblog Los Angeles. A few new bike-share details emerged at yesterday’s Metro Planning and Programming committee meeting. Overall, Metro bike-share is on track to open in downtown Los Angeles with about 1000 bikes at 60+kiosks. The…
