Recognizing her role both as a local and regional leader on environmental and transportation issues, Streetsblog Los Angeles awarded Pam O’Connor the “Politician of the Year” Streetsie Award for 2013. Southern California Streets Initiative Board Chair Juan Matute* on Streetsblog…
Since mid-2013, the Michigan Avenue Greenway has been gradually progressing down the road from vision to reality, holding numerous workshops in order to receive input from the very people it will benefit. Events such as the Pop-Up MANGo supplemented these…
This past Sunday members of the Expo Bicycle Advisory Committee (Expo BAC, of which I am a member), and a few members of Santa Monica Spoke, rode the length of the Expo phase II corridor led by Stephen Villavaso, an…
While Phase II of the Expo Line isn’t expected to be completed until 2015, with revenue operations beginning in 2016, construction of Santa Monica’s first light rail project is well underway. Last week, I had a chance to tour some…
At this week’s Virginia Park meeting for the Michigan Ave. Neighborhood Greenway proposal, a slightly clearer picture of what we might see for the project emerged. There was particular controversy in the neighborhood over the proposal for a diverter at…
With the potential to be greater Los Angeles’s first neighborhood greenway, the Michigan Avenue Neighborhood Greenway represents an excellent opportunity for Santa Monica to create a safe, low-traffic route to get from the Bergamot area to downtown Santa Monica. This would…
This Saturday city staff will be giving an update on bike plan implementation, the “MANGo” Michigan Avenue Neighborhood Greenway project, and the proposed cycle track for the Colorado Esplanade. Former Santa Monica council member and mayor Richard Bloom, now the…
The Monday meeting of the Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners included a presentation on the status of the expansion of FlyAway to develop eight new FlyAway sites by 2015 as part of a settlement I mentioned previously. The big…
Friends, First, thank you all so much for reading and contributing to Santa Monica Next. The website is off to a great start, but thanks to a donation from the Vida Feliz Foundation, we’ll be able to expand the website…
Broadway and Main St to have their standard bike lanes upgraded to green lanes with more “buffered” width spacing. The budget and contract are on tonight’s council consent calendar agenda. [Lookout, Agenda Staff Report] Also up for council discussion this…
(This is the second installment of our first Santa Monica Next Salon, aimed at discussing how to get the younger generations more involved in civic life. Part I can be found here, and the introduction can be found here. –…
Any discussion of how to get millennials more involved in civic decision making has to recognize one simple fact. The current generation of twenty somethings (and some early thirty somethings) is the first generation to grow up surrounded by digital…
The Expo Line Phase II construction is halfway completed, with many of the bridges nearing completion and the first segments of rail laid into the ground. (Daily Press, Mirror) SMMUSD joins push to reform Prop 13 and loopholes commercial companies…
Earlier this month, UNITE HERE Local 11, a non-profit representing hotel workers, struck a deal with a South Carolina’s OTO Development that will allow staff at two new mid-priced hotels to organize a union once construction is completed. In return,…
How can Santa Monica grow into a city of the future, if so many of its decisions are made by and informed by an older populace? This question is becoming a louder and louder one even as the City of Santa…
