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Santa Monica Community Ride with the Mayor to CicLAvia Sunday

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This Sunday, CicLAvia, Los Angeles' most popular open streets event, returns to the westside with a car-free route from Culver City to Venice. To celebrate, Santa Monica Spoke, Breeze Bike Share, and Santa Monica Mayor...

Eyes on the Street: Expo Bikeway Gets Its Stripes in Santa Monica

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With Expo Phase 2 on schedule to open less than a year, things are really starting to coalesce. Most recently, we got a glimpse of the future: Expo Phase 2 bikeway in Santa Monica has been...

Opinion: Three-Month Expo Bike Path Closure Offers Win-Win Safe Streets Opportunity

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A popular segment of the new Exposition Bike path will close for three months for maintenance. .  This long-term temporary closure provides an opportunity for Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin to pursue an easy...

Santa Monica Spoke’s Cynthia Rose Honored by Alliance for Biking & Walking

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Local safe-streets advocate, Cynthia Rose, took home the Alliance for Biking & Walking Susie Stephens Joyful Enthusiasm Award at the National Bike Summit in Washington D.C., convened earlier this month by the League of...

Are Santa Monica’s No-Growth Policies Hurting Metro Ridership?

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The Internet has been abuzz recently over the recent L.A. Times article, "Billions spent, but fewer people are using public transportation in Southern California." The responses were myriad, with people discussing the many reasons why L.A. County...

Transformative Plans for Lincoln Boulevard Head to Planning Commission Wednesday

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The Planning Commission will weigh in Wednesday on plans for the first stage of an overhaul of the southern stretch of Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica that will transform the former highway into a...

Worth the Wait? Incline Re-Opens with New Bike/Ped Design

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For motorists, the California Incline was always a glorious and scenic way to journey between Pacific Coast Highway and the bluffs of Santa Monica along Ocean Avenue. Bicyclists and pedestrians who traveled the Incline, however,...

Air Resources Board: We Need to Align Transportation Funding With Climate Goals

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Via Streetsblog California. While most media coverage of last week’s California Air Resources meeting focused on the board’s decision to strengthen vehicle emission standards, an equally remarkable and important discussion happened late in the first afternoon...

Gas Tax Battle Royale

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This post original appeared on Streetsblog California. Now that Senate Bill 1 has taken effect, and gas taxes have increased by twelve cents, the battle for the hearts and minds of Californians has begun in earnest. Depending...

As Metro Considers Bike Share Vendor, Concerns Over Compatibility Arise in Santa Monica

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News broke this week that Metro will soon vote on a bike share vendor for the agency’s “Countywide Bikeshare” system, which will start with a 1000-bike pilot program in Downtown L.A. But that has some...

Fatality on PCH Brings Santa Monica’s Traffic Death Count to Eight in 2017

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Early Tuesday morning, another person was killed in a traffic incident on Pacific Coast Highway, bringing the number of people killed in traffic incidents in Santa Monica in 2017 to eight. According to the Daily...

Big Blue Bus Real-Time Arrival Info Is Here!

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Big Blue Bus commuters, rejoice! The days of standing in the middle of the street and squinting in hopes that you might see a blue spot on the horizon are over. Since June 5, real-time arrival...

Santa Monica Moving Forward with “Creative Crosswalks” Pilot Project

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Walking in Downtown Santa Monica is about to get a little bit more fun. Santa Monica is moving forward with a “creative crosswalks” pilot program that could transform two intersections in Downtown Santa Monica into colorful...

City Council Seeks Report on Implementation of Santa Monica’s Bike Action Plan

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The Santa Monica City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to seek an update on the implementation on the city's six-year-old Bike Action Plan. The item, which was placed on the agenda by Mayor Ted Winterer and...

Santa Monica City Council Unanimously Rejects Hard Cap on E-Scooters, Moves Forward with 16-Month...

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Last night, the Santa Monica City Council unanimously rejected the staff proposal to cap the number of electric rental scooters in the city to 500 per operator and 1500 total. While the scooter cap...
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