Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Los Angeles

Talking Headways Podcast: Zero Deaths, Zero Cars, Zero Tundra Voles

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 9, 2014 | No Comments

Special guest Damien Newton of Streetsblog LA joins Jeff and me on this episode to tell us all about the Los Angeles DOT’s new strategic plan, which includes a Vision Zero goal: zero traffic deaths by 2025, a vision all of our cities should get behind. He walks us through the oddities of LA politics and […]

LA’s Orange Line Offers a Sneak Peek at Fast Ashland Bus Service

By John Greenfield | Mar 12, 2014 | 28 Comments

When I visited Los Angeles earlier this winter, I took a ride on the Orange Line, a bus rapid transit route that offers a preview of what fast, reliable bus service will be like for transit riders on Ashland Avenue. The Orange Line launched in 2005 as a 14-mile route through the San Fernando Valley, […]

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Talking Headways Podcast: Bikes of Ill Repute

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 28, 2014 | No Comments

eff Wood and I are back with episode 8 of the Talking Headways podcast. We talk about Los Angeles Metro’s decision not to extend light rail all the way to LAX (and what they’re doing instead), plus some analysis of what rail can really do in a city as spread-out as LA. Then we head […]