A study from the Brookings Institute (PDF here) reveals that Angelenos without a car have the best access to public transportation in the nation – even beating out the New York City metropolitan area. We mentioned the report last week in Thursday’s Transportation Headlines post, since then stories have popped [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. Metrolink passes bike friendly test (Streetsblog Los Angeles) Long time safe streets and bicycle advocate Stephen Box shares a detailed review of bringing bikes [continue reading]
Join KPCC and Siel Ju, better known as the Green L.A. Girl, at 3pm for an hour long web chat on living car-free in Southern California. What will be discussed? From Siel herself: “We’re interested in hearing your thoughts about how we can make car-free, or at least very car-lite, [continue reading]
A team of alternative transport and environmental groups – including GOOD, railLA, Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, Coalition for Clean Air and de LAB – are joining forces to throw a car-free celebration in downtown L.A. tonight called Moving Beyond Cars. From the promoters: Board a bus, take the train, [continue reading]
Last month Metro and local officials encouraged Angelenos to forgo their private autos and give public transit a try for National Dump the Pump Day. While it’s nice to hear our local leaders promoting public transit and its promising future here in Los Angeles, as a transit advocate who dumped [continue reading]
Marc Littman’s recent post about taking his son to a car museum by Metro got me thinking: can one be car-free without being anti-car? I think there’s an assumption that if someone is car-free by choice, they must just hate cars. While this may be true in some cases, I [continue reading]
