Sierra Club
3/23/15
[…] Make your voice heard on the plan to open some roads in Griffith Park to tourists who want access to the Hollywood sign. […] Indeed, congestion has reached the point where motorists have been stuck for over an hour inching their way up Western Canyon on their way to the Observatory. […]
Next City
3/19/15
[…] “Every year, as many as 50 fatalities and 1,200 serious pedestrian injuries could be prevented if the City reconstructs all arterial streets with complete street design changes,” it states. […]
Huffington Post Los Angeles
3/23/15
[…] But in the interim skeptics should read a 2013 report from UCLA’s Lewis Center that considered the economic impacts of an earlier CicLAvia. […] The study found that “the increase was greater among those businesses that engaged with CicLAvia participants such as with a vending table or music. ‘Active participant’ businesses saw their sales increase 57 percent, or $2,715 per business.”[…]
NYC to spend $250 million to make dangerous streets safer
Newsday
3/4/15
[…] More than 60 percent of pedestrian deaths occur on just 15 percent of the city’s streets, said Polly Trottenberg, the city’s transportation commissioner. […]
Portland Business Journal
2/23/15
London wants to dramatically increase bicycling in the heart of the city.
To do it, it’s investing $1.3 billion in a 10-year infrastructure campaign that goes where Portland so far has not: It is separating bicyclists from motor vehicles in a move to allay fears that bicycling is too risky. […]
Revealed: London’s most dangerous junctions for cyclists – as transport chiefs under-spend £50m road safety budget
Evening Standard
2/25/15
[…] The most dangerous junctions for cyclists in London were revealed today as transport chiefs came under attack for under-spending their road safety budget by more than £50 million this year.
Elephant and Castle was named as the location of 80 crashes involving cyclists and motorists between 2009 and 2013 that were serious enough to be reported to police. […]
KPCC 89.3
2/17/15
[…] Those delays in retrieving containers are part of the reason port truckers who once were able to drive three loads a day to Southern California warehouses are getting just one load a day, or none. Trucker Luis Mendez said it’s not unusual for him to wait eight to ten hours to retrieve a container from the ports. […]
CicLAvalley
2/9/15
[…] Trying to single out the worst bike lane sometimes can feel like whatever one you’re currently riding on. […] What compounds the problem is the poor conditions cyclists are expected to encounter as portions of the lanes that fail to meet proper width requirements, cracks and potholes in the pavement and the never cleaned debris that comprises long stretches. […]
Washington Post
2/4/15
[…] look at the map above (be sure to click for the huge version!). It shows the regions in the U.S. with the highest percentage of bridges deemed by the Federal Highway Administration as “structurally deficient.” […]
NBC News San Diego
2/3/15
[…] A fourth pedestrian death along San Diego City streets this year has one local organization calling out to the city administration for help. […] considers the intersection where Saturday’s incident took place the most dangerous section of road in the city. […]
