Joe Linton
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U.C. Institute For Transportation Studies Vies For Increased State Funding
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California’s 2016 budget may include additional funding for sustainable transportation research, education, and outreach. The California Assembly’s proposed budget includes a $3 million increase for the University of California Institute of Transportation Studies. The funding increase was shepherded through the budget subcommittee by Assemblymember Richard Bloom, a SBCA Streetsie award winner. The budget item will now […]
Quantifying Transit Ridership, Some Lessons from UCLA’s Transit Conference
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Earlier this week, SBLA attended UCLA’s The Future of Public Transit conference. The one-day event was hosted by UCLA’s Lewis Center and Institute of Transportation Studies. Numerous speakers spoke on the evolving landscape for public transit and broader mobility – from Houston to New York to Los Angeles. This article recaps two of the more […]
Parents Restrict Toy Guns, Why Not Restrict Toy Cars? #StreetsR4Families
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Many parents, including me and my mother, don’t let their kids play with toy guns. We believe that guns aren’t good for kids. They inure children to the danger inherent to guns. But what about toy cars? I write about transportation, so I am no expert on guns. From a little online research, here’s what […]
Zipcar Introduces New Flexibility Features, Including One-Way Trips in LA
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At a downtown Los Angeles press event today, Zipcar representatives announced new car-share “flexibility” features. The new features, described below, are currently available uniquely in the Southern California market, and will be rolled out to other North American cities throughout 2016. In the past, Zipcar car-share required users to always return cars to the parking space where they […]
Joe’s Parking and Vision Zero Comics
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It’s a bit of shameless self-promotion, but I wanted to share of pair of comics pages that I drew. These comment on issues that many Streetsblog L.A. readers care about: parking and Vision Zero. I think that parking, of all the issues that dramatically affect cities, is highly misunderstood, and I wanted to see if […]
Crowdsource Bicycling App ‘Ride Report’ Goes National Today
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Since last September, Portland cyclists have been generating bike trip data via the free Ride Report app. Today, Ride Report has completed its Portland beta and is now open for use throughout the United States. Ride Report, currently available for iPhone only (Android coming soon), runs in the background. The app knows when riders are riding […]
Awesome 11-Year-Old Defends Road Diet, Calls Out LA’s “Bullying” Drivers
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In case you need a reason to feel confident about the next generation of livable streets advocates, check out this viral video of 11-year old Matlock Grossman, standing up for a road diet in his Los Angeles neighborhood. Grossman has been bike commuting since he was seven, and now commutes five miles each way to school. […]
Fix the Law That Criminalizes Pedestrians in California
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In his insightful article “Struggling student a victim of high fines and misdemeanors,” Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez clearly lays out the human cost of so-called “jaywalking” tickets. SBLA includes “jaywalking” in quotes because the term was invented by the auto lobby nearly a century ago to re-frame how people think about how streets should be used. The […]
City of LA’s First Parking-Protected Bike Lanes Come to Reseda Boulevard
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Yesterday, the city of Los Angeles installed its first ever parking-protected bike lanes. They’re on Reseda Boulevard in Northridge, part of the mayor’s Great Streets Initiative. As of this morning, the project is roughly one-quarter complete. The new protected lanes, also known as cycletracks, are mostly complete on the west side of Reseda Blvd from Plummer Street […]
Thoughts at a Workshop On Replacing CA’s Gas Tax With a Mileage Fee
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Earlier this week, I attended a California Sustainable Transportation Funding Workshop, hosted by Caltrans, Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), the California Transportation Commission (CTC), and the Mileage-Based User Fee Alliance (MBUFA). The half-day program focused on how the state of California could shift from our current gas tax funding stream to one based on […]
Sup. Kim Gives Warm Send-Off to SFMTA’s Seleta Reynolds, Headed to LA
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For a quick preview of what Seleta Reynolds has to offer Los Angeles as the new chief of its Department of Transportation, watch this video of her commendation appearance before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors this week. Reynolds’ item begins at 00:43. Supervisor Jane Kim, in a glowing speech, praised the departing San Francisco Municipal […]
Sheriffs Blame Cyclist Victim in OC Road Rage Bottle-Throwing Incident
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On May 31st, 2014, Bryan Larsen was bicycling on a crowded stretch of Pacific Coast Highway in south Orange County. He began to notice a pattern of harassment by the occupants of a large white 4×4 Ram Truck, with Texas license plate 65-500. When passing cyclists, the truck would spew thick black coal-rolling exhaust. Larsen […]