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Thursday, February 20th, 2020Understanding How Women Travel
Tuesday, October 1st, 2019
Mobility – or one’s ability to get around – shapes the opportunities we can reach, and the way we interact in and with our communities. Although women comprise over half of all transit ridership in Los Angeles County, their mobility needs, concerns, and preferences have not been critically accounted for in the way our transportation systems are planned. As a result, women tend to bear outsized burdens and risks in the course of their daily travel.
View this complete post...Building an Earthquake-Proof Bridge in Los Angeles
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
Los Angeles’ authorities are replacing the iconic Sixth Street viaduct with an impressive earthquake-proof structure.
Read the full story on this video, including images and useful links, here: https://www.theb1m.com/video/building-los-angeles-earthquake-proof-bridge
View this complete post...Economic Benefits of Bicycling in Baton Rouge
Tuesday, May 29th, 2018
Affordable transportation such as bicycling is a critical part of the fabric of a healthy city. The purpose of this report is to highlight the economic benefits of bicycle infrastructure or other improvements by calculating and assigning a dollar value to every additional bicycle mile generated by those improvements. These figures can then be used to calculate the effectiveness of specific projects – and to advocate for those projects that make economic sense.
View this complete post...Louisiana DOTD: Building Pre-Fabricated Bridges
Friday, January 26th, 2018
Pre-fab bridge systems are quicker, safer and more innovative when used in the right circumstances.
View this complete post...New Orleans: Lead Exposure and Infrastructure Reconstruction
Wednesday, August 16th, 2017
The OIG found that the City and the S&WB have not alerted residents to the risk of increased exposure to lead in water caused by the partial replacement or disturbance of LSLs. Nor have they complied with industry best practices by providing citizens with ways to reduce the risk of increased lead exposure…As a result, New Orleans residents living where infrastructure construction projects occur may be—or may have been—unknowingly exposed to elevated levels of lead in drinking water.
View this complete post...Los Angeles: 360 Degree Video Tour of LA Subway
Wednesday, May 17th, 2017
Look up. Look down. Look all around as you bore under the city of Los Angeles, 60 feet below the brew pubs and poke shops with a crew of hardhats and the mechanical gopher of a machine that’s clawing out a new subway route.
View this complete post...Who Gets Counted Counts: 2015 Los Angeles Bike and Pedestrian Count
Wednesday, November 30th, 2016
We looked at 8 of the 17 streets where bike lanes were installed between 2010 and 2015 with sufficient collisions and ridership data to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the projects. Overall, the number of automobile collisions decreased, pedestrian collisions stayed relatively flat, and bicycle crash risk decreased, after accounting for increased ridership.
View this complete post...UCLA State of the Commute
Thursday, March 24th, 2016
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
University commuters used alternative transportation modes at a rate far higher than Los Angeles County commuters as a whole, a pattern that held true for all major modes. More than 15% of UCLA employees and more than 39% of students were pedestrians or bicycle commuters, options exercised by less than 4% of LA County commuters. Thirteen percent of UCLA employees and more than 25% of students commuted by public transit, compared to only 7% for all of LA County. Finally, more than 14% of UCLA employees commuted by carpool or vanpool, while 10% of LA County commuters used one of these modes.
Los Angeles, CA: Bike Coop Brings Mobility to Leimert Park
Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
“We’ve been conditioned to think that the road and the city belong to cars. We need to turn it around so it belongs to people. Everybody should have access to the city.” – Ade Neff
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