Hey Caltrans better not to ignore elected officials & advocates all asking for the same thing:
Build 3 blocks of protected 🚲 lanes connecting Ohio to Ohio during your repaving project
You CAN do this but are refusing to. No more excuses!
🎥 @carterrubin.com @mobilityforwho.bsky.social
Nice work by CM Katy Yaroslavsky to get coffee kiosks in all the new Metro D Line stations opening in May! cdn.mc-weblink.sg-mktg.com/weblink/MTc3...
Metro is seriously considering barely funding Ciclavia for the next cycle, and you should click the link below to tell them to get it together:
us4.campaign-archive.com?u=e06b221ec7...
Some good news.
London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.
The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
Can’t wait for bozo not to be the face of our city anymore. Soon…
There would absolutely be a demand for long term parking from people riding to LAX for longer trips.
Peak NIMBY brain is trying to keep a neighboring airport open, even though the planes that land there are literally spraying toxins over your home, because if the airport closes then they're going to build affordable housing there. lapublicpress.org/2025/06/sant...
Look at the difference between NorCal and SoCal.
In the Bay, out of the 11 Senators repping urban areas, 8 voted yes.
In LA County, out of 13 Senators only 4 voted yes.
The LA delegation is killing housing bills.
A quote that really stuck with me from this episode is: "Mobility is about more than transportation, mobility is about access to life."
Kids taking over the streets is the ultimate revolution.
While the Department of Transportation leads the city’s Vision Zero work, nearly every related project requires the participation of other agencies, including Engineering, Street Services, the LAPD and more. In his directive establishing the program, Garcetti envisioned a Vision Zero Steering Committee made up of representatives from departments citywide to coordinate the implementation of traffic safety projects. By mid-2018, that committee had stopped meeting, the audit found. The reduction in participation resulted in the loss of a “useful forum to collaborate on Vision Zero goals and nothing quite replaced this level of interaction,” the audit said. The last time the Department of Transportation revised its action plan, the document that coordinates projects across city agencies, was in 2018. The audit identified 56 “actions and strategies” from that plan that were meant to be completed by the end of 2020, including projects focused on street design and lighting and Vision Zero education campaigns. Half of those projects remain incomplete as of the end of 2023, the audit found. According to interviews the audit is based on, “the level of enthusiasm at City Hall” for Vision Zero has decreased since the program was launched. “Some of the reasons cited include the pandemic, conflicts of personality, lack of total buy-in for implementation, disagreements over how the program should be administered and scaling issues,” the audit said.
10 year after the launch of Vision Zero in Los Angeles, an audit of the program was completed and released.
The result? A damning indictment.
The Vision Zero Steering Committee stopped meeting in 2018!!
The Mayor’s proposed budget is a disaster for street safety. It will result in worse sidewalks, worse pavement condition, no new road safety projects, and may even lead to the end of popular events like CicLAvia.
Make your voice heard!
mailchi.mp/streetsforal...
The Court Is Unlikely To Uphold FHWA's Stated Rationale for Terminating the CBDTP Agreement The Secretary provides two reasons why the CBDTP is not an eligible pilot project under the VPPP statutory language: (1) the program constitutes impermissible "cordon pricing," which is not authorized because it does not offer a toll-free option, and (2) the level of CBDTP tolls has been set primarily by the need to raise revenues rather than prevent congestion. Neither of these reasons is likely to convince the Court: First, with respect to the rationale that "cordon pricing" is not authorized under the phrase "congestion pricing" or "value pricing," we have been unable to identify a compelling legal argument to support this position. As you are aware, the legislation that enacted the VPPP, Section 1012(b) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), Pub. L. 102-240 (1991) (23 U.S.C. § 149 note), as amended by Section 1216(a) of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21s Century (TEA-21), Pub. L. 105-178 (1998) (when the term "value pricing" replaced "congestion pricing" in 1998, the two terms were used synonymously), and Section 1604(a) of the Safe Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), Pub. L. 109-59 (2005), does not define "value pricing." Under Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. 369 (2024), the Court will not afford the Secretary's current interpretation any deference, and will engage in its own interpretation of whether cordon pricing is included within the term value pricing. The factors that the court will look at in making this decision point towards the conclusion that the type of cordon pricing utilized in the CBDTP is included within the terms "congestion pricing" or "value pricing."
LMFAO THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ACCIDENTALLY SUBMITTED A LETTER TO THE COURT ADMITTING THEY’RE PROBABLY GOING TO LOSE THE LAWSUIT TO STOP CONGESTION PRICING
these guys are so incompetent it’s unbelievable
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
During your lunch break, please call the following senators offices in support of SB 79: Grayson, Cortese, Caballero, Padilla.
The opposition speaks: "The state does pretty well at producing market rate housing" to audible laughter from the audience.
my buddy created this map of safe bike routes in LA and i help her update it. if there are any bike routes you use that meet ALL THE RULES included on the right tab, reply here and let me know so i can check them out and add them.
www.safebikeroutes.com/la
Join us tomorrow for a ride to and from WeHo, and hangs at Brew Works after!
If you dare to ask CalTrans how they expect cyclists to come back when they only put a bike lane in one direction on a deadly highway, they tell you there’ll be crosswalks, and bike lanes in other segments. We’re doing great.
Totally forgot that was in there when I posted 😂
Sadly, this wasn’t even close to being the worst thing a driver has done to me for no good reason 🥲
A driver just tailgated me and sprayed me with his windshield wipers because I had the audacity to take the lane for 12 seconds so that I could make a left turn.
I even crossed a double yellow to merge early and get out of his way. Yes, cyclist entitlement is definitely the problem 🤡
2015: woman killed (life lost and millions paid out in a wrongful death lawsuit)
2017: street is reconfigured
2017: Eric Garcetti forces @mikebonin.bsky.social to remove the safety improvements
2021: mother killed crossing same street w/her son
Yesterday:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
We’ve been hard at work in Sacramento preparing our legislative package for the year, and we’re proud to announce our 2025 bills! Here’s what we’re running this year ⬇️
and some people wonder why we are mad
Ditto.
As someone with nystagmus who felt the same way about this episode and this book, I couldn’t relate to this post more 🙏
Update: after 4 days, SMPD finally took my report, and say they’re likely to be pressing charges and should be able to get me his identity that way.
I still want to figure this out so our ordinance can be helpful when people can’t get this info through PD (that’s kind of the point of the ordinance).
