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As Beverly Hills Celebrates 100 Years, Lend Your Voice

June 4, 2012July 20, 2014 Mark Elliot 0 Comments Centennial, Pacific Electric

Beverly Hills is now gearing up for an 18-month long (!) centennial celebration of “style, class and glamour” which will

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Beverly Hills Reaches Out When It Suits City Hall

May 25, 2012August 4, 2023 Mark Elliot 0 Comments Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills Public Works, Beverly Hills Transportation Division, Brown Act, public participation, Purple Line, transparency

We received a press release yesterday from City of Beverly Hills decrying Metro for finalizing the Purple Line Constitution station.

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Next Time it May Be You

May 21, 2012April 8, 2013 Mark Elliot 7 Comments collision, editorial, Pilot program

When Traffic & Parking Commission declined to recommend safety improvements for cyclists on Beverly Drive, one of our heavily traveled

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Bike Route Pilot Late Meeting Notice is Par for the Course

May 8, 2012April 14, 2013 Mark Elliot 0 Comments ad-hoc Bike Plan Update Committee, Beverly Hills bike plan, Beverly Hills Public Works, Beverly Hills Transportation Division, Pilot program, Public Works

Were you seeking official notice for tomorrow’s Traffic & Parking Commission Bike Route Pilot meeting but couldn’t find it? You’re

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Bike Route Pilot Leaves Much Off the Table

May 1, 2012January 23, 2019 Mark Elliot 0 Comments Bicycle Master Plan, Fehr & Peers, Pilot program

Given the legendary congestion and mobility challenges facing Beverly Hills, couldn’t we could use a crack engineering outfit to get

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Cultural Attitudes Toward Driving Evolve

April 30, 2012May 6, 2023 Mark Elliot 0 Comments car culture, Transportation and the New Generation report

As noted in a Marketplace piece today, the Frontier Group, an environmentally-oriented public interest organization affiliated with the federation of

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Are We Seeing the End of the Exurbs?

April 24, 2012January 23, 2019 Mark Elliot 0 Comments Census 2010, ghost bikes, safety, suburbanization, transportation, urban planning

The Census Bureau garnered headlines when it reported that the LA connurbation was among the most densely-populated in the United

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Beverly Hills ‘Likes’ Metro!

April 5, 2012July 12, 2012 Mark Elliot 0 Comments Beverly Hills on Facebook, Metro, Purple Line

You wouldn’t know it from the hostility shown to Metro by Beverly Hills officials incensed over the subway, but according

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Anthony Catalano's Raleigh Chopper circa 1974
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The Bike that Got Away

February 5, 2012February 7, 2012 Mark Elliot 0 Comments Brooklyn, Raleigh Chopper

Oh, the rides that get away. Most every longtime cyclist has a tale or two about the one that disappeared

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Beverly Hills Attends US Conference of Mayors

January 28, 2012February 9, 2018 Mark Elliot 0 Comments Barry Brucker, League of California Cities, US Conference of Mayors, Westside Cities COG

The 80th Winter Conference of Mayors just wrapped up in Washington, DC. At this conclave of city leaders (pop. 30,000+),

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On Google’s Terms, A Panopticon Matures

January 26, 2012September 18, 2023 Mark Elliot 0 Comments Google, privacy, terms & conditions

Google recently announced a change in how it collects information from search and online activity conducted through Google platforms and

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Michigan engineers on bikes

September 21, 2011May 18, 2015 Mark Elliot 0 Comments Mar Vista, Venice Boulevard

Today I took a leg-stretcher from my place in Beverly Hills to the Marina to meet up with some LACBC

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Do We Need an ADA-Style Equity-in-Access Law?

September 10, 2011May 14, 2020 Mark Elliot 0 Comments Americans With Disabilities Act, Complete Streets, Good Roads, National League for Good Roads

The Americans With Disabilities Act was signed into law just over two decades ago. The landmark legislation requires ramps, curb cuts

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City-Resident Communication: Beverly Hills Can Do Better

September 10, 2011June 21, 2021 Mark Elliot 0 Comments #FAIL, Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills City Hall, civic engagement

Cities embrace social media to push information out to stakeholders and to engage residents in city business. We’ve heard about

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Dennis Romero

September 8, 2011September 20, 2019 Mark Elliot 0 Comments Dennis Romero, harassment

Leave it to the LA Weekly to glance at the new Los Angeles anti-harassment law, the one that for the

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