transportation

I Can Make Your Parking Tickets Disappear

Curbing Your Car in L.A. Can Be Hazardous to Your Bank Account. So I Did Something About It.

I like to think of myself as a pretty smart guy, but when I moved to Los Angeles from San Antonio, Texas I quickly tallied up $1,500 in parking tickets. In the world of L.A. parking sign decryption (picture a mythical universe where Harry Potter collides with Parking Wars), even a perfectly intelligent newcomer is both ill-prepared and ill-financed for the adventure at hand.

Recently, I attempted to park by a curb featuring signs that read as follows: “Passenger Loading 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.”; …

by Michael Brouillet |

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A City of Freeways? Or a City of Freeway Fighters?

Los Angeles Has Been Defined Both By Its Big Roads and By the Efforts to Stop Them

by Gilbert Estrada |

Southern California has approximately 67,000 vehicular lane miles. In other words, we have enough roads to wrap around the earth 2.69 times at the equator. Government officials believe more roadways …

Hospitalizing Asian Gamblers and Scratching My Car

The Casino Buses of San Gabriel Are Dangerous Nuisances. They’re Also a Reminder Of How Unaware We’re Becoming Of Our Own Communities.

by Peter Hong |

I was in the city of San Gabriel parking on Valley Boulevard, the 42nd Street of Chinese-American commerce, when a man missing a lot of teeth walked over to me. …

1.2 Million Passengers. One Single Track.

California May Not Need That $68-Billion Bullet Train. But It Sure As Heck Needs More Rail Capacity.

by Joe Mathews |

I’m not a big fan of trains, but my oldest son, Ben, 4, loves them. He’d been lobbying to go on a “big train trip,” and his school would be …

How To Savor Your Crawl Up the 405 Freeway

Don’t Sweat the Closure on Sunset. Instead, Join Me On a Miraculous Tour Through Jurassic L.A.

by Arthur G. Sylvester |

If you’re among the 300,000 or so commuters who crawl through the Sepulveda Pass every day, you’ve surely noticed the $950-million construction project that is adding an extra lane to …

Transportation Designer Geoff Wardle

You Want to Fly Down the 405? Not So Fast

Geoff Wardle is director of advanced mobility research at Arts Center College of Design in Pasadena. Before participating in a panel on the future of the bicycle in L.A., he …


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