Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Los Angeles

The World’s First Sustainable Parking Structure

By Jason Varone | Jul 20, 2007 | 8 Comments

James Howard Kunstler‘s Eyesore of the Month of July is the nation’s first LEED-certified, "sustainable solar-powered parking structure." Yep. Only in California. Kunstler writes: Apparently nobody informed these idiots that happy motoring is not a sustainable activity, and neither is the parking that necessarily attends it. This is apart from the sheer appalling monumental ugliness […]

More Bike Lanes for Los Angeles? One Cyclist Says, “No Thanks.”

By Jason Varone | Jun 1, 2007 | 16 Comments

In an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, Will Campbell writes that bike lanes in Los Angeles are useless and dangerous. Campbell is an avid recreational and commuter cyclist who set a goal of riding 2,007 miles in L.A. this year. L.A., which averages 329 sunny, bike-friendly days a year, should be one of the […]

LA.Streetsblog: The Joy of Poor Circulation

By Jason Varone | May 30, 2007 | 6 Comments

Every week, KCRW radio’s Marc Porter Zasada sets out to fathom Los Angeles on his show The Urban Man. This week he talks about neighborhoods, how fragile they are and how easily they can be lost to bad traffic engineering: On Monday you walked around the block for coffee and croissants, down where narrow streets […]

Road Warrior: Los Angeles Edition

By Jason Varone | Feb 20, 2007 | 10 Comments

What is it like to bike in a much more hostile environment than New York City? Conan Nolan reports for NBC TV, Los Angeles: CONAN NOLAN: It’s just the start of the afternoon rush hour, and the fight begins. MICHAEL CLARK, BICYCLE COMMUTER: There is no sense of sharing. I have to battle for my […]

The Price of Parking: Let the Free Market Decide?

By Sarah Goodyear | Feb 5, 2007 | 63 Comments

The Wall Street Journal ran a piece this weekend by Conor Dougherty on the municipal move toward charging more for parking. It’s available online to paid subscribers only, but here’s a taste: As anyone who has ever circled the block for a marginally better spot knows, parking is an American obsession. It occasionally boils over […]

Sidewalk Parking Opponents Gain Ground in . . . Where?

By Aaron Donovan | Dec 1, 2006 | 10 Comments

It is hard to tell exactly where the sidewalk meets the street above, where cars dominate the streetscape and wreck the pedestrian experience. Maybe that’s what’s to be expected in Los Angeles, where the photo was taken. As you can see, the upper row of cars are parked to straddle the curb (front wheels on the sidewalk, […]