Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Los Angeles

This Could Be the Biggest Year Ever for Transit at the Ballot Box

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 10, 2012 | 6 Comments

Next month, 19 transit-related measures will come before voters. If the rest of this year is any guide, 16 of them will pass. Despite a high-profile loss in Atlanta a few months ago, transit referenda have an 86 percent success rate so far this year, according to the Center For Transportation Excellence. It strikes some […]

NRDC Gives Gas Consumption Maps a Helpful Revision

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 5, 2012 | 19 Comments

The overwhelming sentiment that greeted our story on the gas consumption maps the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club put out last week went something like this: These are almost useful. Just about everyone agreed that looking at total fuel consumption per county wasn’t very informative without weighing that number against population. There […]

Which Counties Have the Biggest Oil Addiction Problem? We Still Don’t Know.

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 28, 2012 | 12 Comments

Have you ever thought to yourself, “What I really need is a map showing what U.S. counties use the most gasoline, so that I can target my sustainability efforts there?” Funny, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club were thinking the same thing. What they came up with gets us partway there. “We were […]

“We’d Rather Work on Our Fixies”: Cars Fade Into the Background

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 18, 2012 | 5 Comments

What is it with kids today? They just don’t seem to be that interested in driving. Over the weekend, the LA Times ran a long story about Crenshaw Boulevard, a corridor under transformation by light rail. The story’s subtitle was: “Optimism and anxiety travel along its route, as a revived rail service push and an […]

Pro Walknomics/Pro Bikenomics

By Gary Kavanagh | Sep 17, 2012 | No Comments

In order for our society to tackle the challenge of creating a more walkable and bikeable North America, with the appropriate devotion of money, resources and public space, we have to build a solid political consensus. Unfortunately, some of the compelling reasons to prioritize active transportation have been unnecessarily politicized into partisan issues. We can […]

CNU Hones Its Transportation Agenda in Long Beach

By Gary Kavanagh | Sep 12, 2012 | No Comments

Preceding the start of the Pro-Walk/Pro-Bike/Pro-Place conference this week, the Congress for the New Urbanism met at the Renaissance Hotel across from the Long Beach Convention Center to convene their annual CNU Transportation Summit. At the summit, CNU develops its transportation agenda, including new and existing projects. Having caught the new urbanist bug in Florida […]

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