Not much to add here, but wow! h/t Streetsblog
Tag Archives: transit
OK, here’s a really bad idea that should be nipped right in the bud. US Senators Cory Booker and Richard Bloomenthal think the TSA should implement some kind of airport-level security for trains and subways. Seriously? StreetsblogUSA has an excellent take-down of this farcical proposal. The Senators are concerned about an attack like the […]
The LA Times reports on resident dissatisfaction with the road diet on Rowena Avenue in Silver Lake. It’s a great article on an important change, balanced and with lots of perspectives. But one irony jumped out at me. After 24-year-old Ashley Sandau was killed crossing Rowena, momentum for changes to the street accelerated. It’s […]
California is trying to decide how—and in fact whether—to adequately fund the huge backlog of overdue road repairs and investment in transit. California Democrats in the legislature have proposed an increase in the gas tax by 12 cents a gallon. With Republicans digging in their heels against any tax, Jerry Brown has proposed a compromise—a […]