Transportation

18 articles
Donald Shoup, an older man with a beard and a suit, straddling his bike along a curb with paid parking spaces

Feed the meter

The fact that LA could even aspire to host a "car-free" games owes a great debt to Donald Shoup repeating, for decades, that just because you're going somewhere in this city, you're not automatically guaranteed a free parking spot when you get there

A wheatpasted poster of Donald Trump that reads "Dick Tater" on an electrical box by a bike share kiosk

Service disruptions

"The immediate-term outcome is that the discretionary grants from the federal government are going to be oriented away from urban areas, communities of color, and pedestrian, bike and transit projects"

A person on a red ladder painting a mural with a 101 South freeway sign, two people at a cafe, and a streetcar

Meeting our megaevent moment

A report from last month's UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium, intended to both illuminate existing challenges and light a path forward for progress, reveals deep frustrations and grave concerns about LA's megaevent planning

The super Bowl

The super Bowl

When the LA Phil season ended earlier this month, the Hollywood Bowl reported that the number of visitors who used the shuttles and park-and-ride buses this year had increased to an astounding 36 percent

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