I’m returned to Santa Monica this week from attending the California by Bike Summit in Oakland, with the theme of mainstreaming the bike in California, and a few extra days in the Bay Area and San Francisco as well. There…
(James Rojas, the renowned urban planner who led the “Clover Park Creative Community Engagement Project” at last weekend’s Airport2Park picnic was nice enough to share his notes from the day with us. The notes have been gently edited. – DN)…
Last week, I had the chance to interview Juan Matute, a transportation researcher with the UCLA Luskin Center, Santa Monica resident, and Chair of the Southern California Streets Initiative’s Board of Directors. (SCSI publishes Streetsblog Los Angeles and Santa Monica…
Last week was the latest workshop to discuss proposals for improving biking and walking access to the Santa Monica High School campus, for which the city has been awarded partial grant funding through the Safe Routes to School program. Diagrams…
Just a quick note. Alert readers will note a change to the top bar with a new link. The new link points to a page full of information about ty of Santa Monica v United States of America, Federal Aviation Administration…
I know James Rojas pretty well. I first met him over six years ago, when I first moved to Los Angeles in his old office at Metro’s headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles. Since then, we’ve gotten together a couple of…
Tomorrow, Saturday the 26th, will be the concluding weekend event of Los Angeles Walks, Walktoberfest events. I’m leading this Santa Monica walk, and we will be taking a tour of some projects in the Expo Line corridor of Santa Monica.…
Among the many organizations that make Santa Monica such a receptive area for sustainable discourse, a new group called California Climate Change Exchange is launching with the specific purpose of making people more aware of the issue of climate change.…
We’ve been covering the public process of the Michigan Ave. Neighborhood Greenway proposals since the launch of Santa Monica Next, but there is also related and overlapping project specific just to the area around Santa Monica High School funded by…
We’ve spent a lot of time talking Tongva Park since our launch in August, so we thought we’d turn over the coverage of this weekend’s celebration to all of you. [View the story “Your coverage of the Tongva Park Celebration”…
There has been a lot of debate and scrutiny over the vision of finally connecting rail service to the LAX terminals (this Metro Source post is a good primer on state of things), correcting what many lampoon as a great…
For much of the past year or so, the area across from the Santa Monica city hall has been one giant construction site with fences partially obscuring the public’s view of the seven-acre space. Last month, the fences finally came…
While researching the Streetsblog Los Angeles story concerning the new regional push for bike share, I had a chance to talk with Santa Monica Mayor Pam O’Connor about what role Santa Monica has in the regional effort. As Gary Kavanagh…
At the first workshop for the Memorial Park Neighborhood Plan, there was a lot of enthusiasm for the possibility of capping the freeway with a park (from 17th to 14th, although former mayor Mike Feinstein advocated for extending it to 11th…
A new specific area plan process in Santa Monica is kicking off next Monday for what is being called the Memorial Park Neighborhood Plan, encompassing the area immediately adjacent Memorial Park and the future Metro station at 17th, with a…
