A Week in Events: CicLAvia, Green Living Workshop, Used Oil Recycling and Filter Exchange
Ciclovias began in Bogota, Colombia as a response to the congestion and pollution of the city streets. Activists in Los Angeles, in turn, began to organize a similar event for the same reasons. With...
Is Santa Monica Ready for Vision Zero?
"Vision Zero." It's become a buzz-term for safe streets recently. The internationally effective transportation management plan has made streets safer across Europe. With New York City and San Francisco adopting the strategy, is it time...
Events: Council Decides Bergamot, 5th and AZ Is Presented, Bike Week!
In February of this year, the Santa Monica City Council approved the Hines Bergamot Transit Village by a 4-3 vote. The Hines development would include creative office, housing, restaurant, retail, and publicly accessible outdoor spaces....
Santa Monica Starbucks Caves to Anti-Booze NIMBYs
First, they fight against the proliferation of new housing; now they want to stop local cafes from selling beer and wine.
Santa Monica’s newest Starbucks at Olympic and Main Street, which was slated to be the...
The Month Of Walktober
Yesterday kicked off the month of "Walktober", and the organization Los Angeles Walks is putting together a line up of events that began this morning and afternoon with super hero crosswalk defenders at several...
Gruber: Desperate Times, Desperate Measures, Desperate Companies that Rent Corporate Jets
This story first appeared on Gruber's personal website, The Healthy City Local.
I’ve already been quoted by Jason Islas in The Lookout calling the initiative that the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has filed to prevent the Santa Monica...
Santa Monica Police Kick-Off 2015 with More Bike-Ped Safety Operations
The Santa Monica Police Department is wasting no time continuing its series of bike-ped safety operations in the new year with the department's latest targeted enforcement operation scheduled for January 9.
During the operations, which started in...
Thoughts On Samohi Safe Routes To School Proposals, & Deconstructing The Reactionary Characterization Of...
Last week was the latest workshop to discuss proposals for improving biking and walking access to the Santa Monica High School campus, for which the city has been awarded partial grant funding through the...
Santa Monica and the Myth of Overdevelopment
It is election season in Santa Monica and, as a result, there is a lot of rhetoric being tossed around. This year, the candidate field for City Council is awash with folks stumping against...
Expo Progresses Into Santa Monica, Photos by Gary and Damien
While Phase II of the Expo Line isn't expected to be completed until 2015, with revenue operations beginning in 2016, construction of Santa Monica's first light rail project is well underway. Last week, I...
Pro-growth, slow-growth, no-growth, growth boundaries, steady state & degrowth.
In Santa Monica’s local politics, there is a camp, one of the more active and vocal, sometimes loosely refereed to as "slow growth", or "no growth", or sometimes just "anti-development." There is variation within...
Santa Monica Spoke Activist Nominated for National Leadership Award
Cynthia Rose, the head of the local advocacy group SM Spoke, is a finalist for "Advocate of the Year" from the Alliance for Bicycling and Walking (the Alliance). The Alliance is a nation-wide bicycling...
Santa Monica City Council Sends Plans for Expo-Adjacent Site Back to the Drawing Board
The City Council Tuesday night unanimously voted to send a plan for a City-owned Expo-adjacent site in Downtown Santa Monica back to the drawing board.
The Council called for staff to return in February with...
In a Town That Gives “Tree Hugger” a Good Name, Debates Over Trees Are...
If a tree falls in Santa Monica, there will definitely be a sound, most likely one of protest. This community cares deeply about its trees, and passions run high whenever anyone tries to mess...
Modern Bus Stops Coming to Santa Monica. Watch Them Grow and Share Your Pictures
Santa Monica has a regional reputation for working diligently to create a modern, world-class menu of transportation options. While so much of the transportation debate online and in newspapers revolves around car traffic congestion...
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