This Super Bowl Sunday both on and off the field viewers watched the Giants and the Patriots. Between plays and at halftime, the off-the-field giants were Big Soda, with their ads for their elixir of obesity and diabetes. And you can bet the ads for Coke and Pepsi contained a...

A lot has already been written about CicLAvia but we are just getting started. It is only the beginning because this transformational health-promoting event is demonstrating to Angelenos and the rest of the world how this bloated, increasingly overweight and sprawling city isn't just for cars and doesn't...

Here's an important story that may not have made it onto The Daily Show yet. While it is only a matter of time before Streetsblog Los Angeles has the readership of the program where most Americans get their news, until then I'm using this soapbox to...

This is the piece in which I out myself about California's high-speed rail mistake. Let's face it, now is not the time to be spending a decent size country's GDP on a fast train between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Instead we should be spending that fortune completing much needed...

With parts of New Jersey and the rest of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast still literally underwater from Hurricane Irene, it is time to examine the double standard that is New Jersey governor and likely presidential candidate Chris Christie's modus operandi. Sure, during the extended Tea Time we are living through...

Like a victory lap coming off its big win in the Prospect Park West Bike Lane Battle of the Bulge case, the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) is continuing its public space transforming work with its makeover of accident-prone and pedestrian menace Grand Army...

Last week, just after a large deer decided to make itself a hood ornament on our car, I got to thinking about what a great country this is. In spite of our political and social divisions and the still phlegmatic economic recovery, this special land is full of beauty and...

With Carmageddon upon us I took Metro's sage advice and got about as far away from LA as I could without a passport. And my mode of transportation? You guessed it. The car. The now-famous 405 freeway closing aligning perfectly with my kids being off at camp, it...

Dear Beverly Hills:

What were you thinking when you let your mayor write Metro basically threatening to pull the city's support for America Fast Forward if the public transit agency decides to build a Century City subway station at Constellation Blvd and Avenue of the Stars?

Dear America:

Don't get me wrong. I'm almost as delighted as Hizonner himself that LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is the new president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. What better perch from which to pitch the country, Congress and the president on the merits of America Fast Forward?

While the story of the year, if not the decade, is undoubtedly America Fast Forward, this piece is about the LA City Council and how it needs to stop talking and start acting on the Wilshire bus rapid transit (BRT) project. Maybe next week I will get back...

A few months ago an injury changed the way I see the need for more bus rapid transit (BRT) in Los Angeles. I'm 50 now and hardly the picture of fitness I was or wasn't when I was younger. And what is it they say? "Exercise will kill...

With Kate and William finally off somewhere alone and Osama Bin Laden gone from the scene it is time to bring the conversation back to the circus at home. And what better freak show to start with than the P.T. Barnum of our time, The Donald.

Watching Donald Trump as...

Though my invitation to the royal wedding appears to have gotten lost in the mail, I was pleased to have received an invitation to the recent tour of the Expo Line station at Western and Exposition. And at the cost of a Metro Day Pass, the...

Inspired by the success of CicLAvia II and ever hopeful that LA will soon become a more transit-oriented city complete with streets, parks and bike lanes that serve our multi-modal population, I am launching my own little campaign to improve LA by reopening a shuttered West...

I'm longing for CivLAvia!

No, I'm not being unfaithful to my wife. I'm just down because I won't be able to ride in LA's second CicLAvia this Sunday. I tore my Achilles tendon a month and a half ago and...

Earlier this month I wrote about LAX and its shameful public transit connections. Nothing I have seen or done since then has changed my thinking any. In fact, to add insult to LAX's injury I made the threatened trip to San Francisco that I wrote about in my...

It was an article in the City Fix about a new metro line between Delhi, India's airport and Central Delhi that got my blood boiling about the sorry state of public transportation at LAX. Early next week I have to fly out of there and as I know...

Watching from Lalaland, the filing of a lawsuit against the Prospect Park West bike lanes makes me want to cry. What an utter waste of paper and time for the judges, clerks and lawyers involved. And this hits on the same day that the Daily News runs a...

As I ride the Metro 720 Rapid Bus along the washboard known as Wilshire Blvd. I think maybe, as hard as it would be, that it is time to get an office closer to home. The rent on Metro is great but it sure is hard to take a business...