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Roads/Rails

By Eric Richardson — February 21, 2008 — 43 Comments

Connector routing as art: a sketch by former LADOT Assistant GM James Okazaki.

Next week Metro is holding a pair of meetings on the Regional Connector, a project...


Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

By Eric Richardson — February 14, 2008 — 30 Comments

Last night the Bringing Back Broadway Trustees held their first meeting high above Downtown in City's Hall Tom Bradley room. The group was created last month to...


Bicycle at Radio Hill

By Eric Richardson — February 12, 2008

How can the city of Los Angeles better plan for bicycles? That was the question in front of a joint council meeting today, as the city's Planning and Land Use Management...


By Eric Richardson — February 08, 2008 — 13 Comments

Yesterday the CRA Board approved a $60,000 expansion of its contract with the IBI Group, the consultants working on plans for a new streetcar in Downtown. The group...


New Racks

By Eric Richardson — February 05, 2008 — 1 Comment

The Arts District looks to get a little more bike friendly soon, with markings for bike racks showing up this week. The neighborhood is already heavily biked,...


Second Street Sidewalk

By Eric Richardson — February 03, 2008 — 2 Comments

As I started reading Christopher Hawthorne's piece on pedestrian unfriendly street changes near LAMCA, I was thinking to myself, "This is just like 2nd street....


Someone didn't get the memo...

By Eric Richardson — February 03, 2008 — 1 Comment

It was a little over a week ago that Flexcar/Zipcar announced it was pulling out of Southern California, but you wouldn't know it to see this lot on Hope street...


Second Street Activation

By Eric Richardson — February 01, 2008 — 3 Comments

Wednesday we wrote about the proposed widening on Second Street. The shot above is a rendering of a idea for activating that stretch of sidewalk, done in 2006 for...


Lane Closed

By Eric Richardson — January 29, 2008 — 21 Comments

Given that city council spent the whole day today talking about how to improve transportation in Los Angeles, it would seem that the subject is a bit important...


waving the smart card on the flexcar ... again

By Eric Richardson — January 24, 2008 — 8 Comments

Zipcar announced yesterday (via an email that some members got and some didn't) that it is pulling out of Southern California, save for a few university contracts...


3rd Street Tunnel

By Eric Richardson — January 18, 2008 — 5 Comments

It's a three day weekend and you might want to use it to just stay inside and not try to cross Downtown. The weekend forecast for 2nd, 3rd and 4th streets is closed...



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