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Design and Architecture
Design and Architecture

Bird scooters, Metro innovation, road diets

Hosted by Frances Anderton Jan. 09, 2018
After the battle in Playa del Rey, have road diets been run off the road? The head of Metro’s Office of Extraordinary Innovation describes how you can pitch bold new transit improvements.

Bird scooters on the sidewalk in downtown Santa Monica. Photo by Frances Anderton.

From this Episode:

Scooter-sharing startup Bird takes flight in Santa Monica

Last fall a battery-powered, adult-size variant on a Razor scooter appeared on the streets of downtown Santa Monica.

11 min

Pitch your transit ideas to Metro’s Office of Extraordinary Innovation

You don’t have to be Elon Musk to pitch an idea for improving mobility in Los Angeles. Say you have an innovative idea for helping Angelenos get around the region. Who do...

10 min

DoT chief: road diets aren’t dead

Late last year the beachside neighborhood of Playa Del Rey got into a road rage over a road diet. Some car lanes were removed to slow traffic, and bike lanes were added.

7 min

Credits

Host:
Frances Anderton

Producers:
Frances Anderton, Avishay Artsy

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