Author Archives: LA/2B Staff

Preview of Friday’s Task Force Meeting on Local Transportation Funding Options

Our next Mobility Element Task Force Meeting, scheduled for this Friday, January 25, 2013, will focus on sustainable local transportation infrastructure funding strategies. In addition to finding sustainable funding resources for new capital projects, one of the fundamental questions facing the City … Continue reading

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Complete Streets Networks, Part 4: Meet Our Draft Bicycle-Enhanced Network

We previously introduced our draft Transit-Enhanced Network and plans for pedestrian enhancements. Here’s our proposal for the draft Bicycle-Enhanced Network. We are asking you to tell us if the candidate streets should receive enhancements or if a different street should be chosen for enhancements. … Continue reading

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Complete Streets Networks, Part 3: Pedestrian Enhancements

Whether walking to the car, bike or bus stop, every trip begins and ends with walking. Acknowledging this, Los Angeles is attempting to shed its reputation as an auto-oriented city to a multi-modal one. Los Angeles celebrated many great strides … Continue reading

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Complete Streets Networks, Part 2: Meet Our Draft Transit-Enhanced Network

We discussed the idea of Complete Streets Networks in our previous post. Today, we will explore our proposal for one of its components, a connected network of streets that are enhanced to advantage performance for transit – the “Transit-Enhanced Network.” … Continue reading

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Draft goals and policies are out!

After more than a year of public outreach and visioning, we have come up with a draft of the goals and policies that will go into the Mobility Element. You can download that draft document here. These six goals and … Continue reading

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Smart Investments

World Class Infrastructure cannot be achieved without strategically investing in our transportation system, which includes street maintenance, operations, and capital improvements for all modes of travel.  Our outreach participants expressed that transportation funding was not being clearly distributed nor being … Continue reading

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Our Next Steps

Throughout the past 10 months, we have been coordinating and processing the feedback we’ve received through our online town hall, our spring 2012 Think Labs, and the ongoing  “Great Streets, Great Neighborhoods” Activity Kit outreach. This information has been instrumental … Continue reading

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LA/2B or Not to Be: Community Feedback

The first wave of responses of the “Great Streets, Great Neighborhood” activity kit has been arriving, and we are excited to see what Angelenos all across the city are envisioning for our transportation future. There are ideas ranging from safer … Continue reading

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