It’s finally happening! Santa Monica could move forward with plans for a 500-bicycle bike share program at this Tuesday’s City Council meeting. After more than two years of planning and waiting, the City Council will decide whether to approve a…
The region’s largest bicycle advocacy organization, the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, is searching for a new executive director. Following the wildly successful 7-year tenure of Jennifer Klausner, the LACBC is in good shape, with a solid fundraising base and…
Santa Monica Mayor Pam O’Connor will join her fellow Metro Boardmembers, including County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, and other officials Friday to break ground on the Subway to the Sea. On November 7, Metro officials will gather to Los Angeles County…
It is election season in Santa Monica and, as a result, there is a lot of rhetoric being tossed around. This year, the candidate field for City Council is awash with folks stumping against “overdevelopment,” claiming the beachside city has…
First, they fight against the proliferation of new housing; now they want to stop local cafes from selling beer and wine. Santa Monica’s newest Starbucks at Olympic and Main Street, which was slated to be the third Southern California location to…
Officials from more than two dozen cities across the country gathered at Cross Campus in Santa Monica Monday morning for the launch of Next Century Cities, an initiative designed to help municipalities develop locally-controlled state-of-the-art Internet infrastructure. Santa Monica Mayor…
Alright, so it’s Monday and we’re back to the grind, but there is plenty to look forward to. We’ve got an important City Council meeting coming up, a mixer, a playdate at Tongva Park for all the Streetsblog/Santa Monica Next…
Santa Monica Bike Center employees took one of the top spots in the League of American Bicyclists’ third-annual National Bike Challenge, which challenges people throughout the country to swap their cars for bikes in their daily commute. And in the…
President Barack Obama stopped off at Cross Campus, a local co-working space and incubator for startups, in Santa Monica Thursday as part of his three-day fundraising trip to Southern California. During the event, which was attended by local officials Mayor Pam…
How many times were the police called to your neighborhood last month? How much does the City charge for a construction permit? Where are Santa Monica’s free CityWiFi hotspots? How much do your public officials make? Which streets have bike…
Here at Streetsblog, we believe that cities of all sizes are great places to raise kids. We’ve also noticed that in recent years more and more of our local Streetsblog community are raising children. So instead of another happy hour…
Overall, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days? Are you optimistic about the future? How do you usually get to work or school? How likely or unlikely do you think it is that your children…
While it may be missing much of the fanfare of previous years in Southern California, Park(ing) Day is still one of the happiest days on the Livable Streets Calendar. Across the world, people will gather in car parking spaces, feed…
Santa Monica’s new Big Blue Bus stops have been a point of contention recently among some locals. Some five years in the making, the $7 million, federally-funded redesign of the stops would bring seating, shade, and, at some stops, even…
It’s finally happening! Metro is bringing bikeshare to the greater Los Angeles area and Santa Monica is slated to be one of the first four cities, along with Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Long Beach, to get stations. According to Metro’s website,…
