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UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
Associate director at UCLA Lewis Center and the Institute of Transportation Studies
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Juan Matute
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FROM Juan Matute
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
HOV lanes and LA traffic L.A.’s carpool lanes don’t move fast enough. Federal regulators want them to move at 45 MPH or more. But L.A.’s lanes only go that fast about 30 percent of the time.
Design and Architecture
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.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Fixing L.A. Parking Parking is broken in Los Angeles. Sixty-dollar parking tickets, street sweeping at the crack of dawn and exclusive resident-only parking on city streets are just a few common gripes. Well, L.A. leaders are finally trying to fix some of these problems.
Which Way, L.A.?
LA's Westside Faces a Slow-Pocalypse If you thought Westside traffic couldn't get any worse, it seems that public agencies are conspiring to achieve simultaneous disruption. The City of Santa Monica is about to start rebuilding the California Incline , which drops traffic down onto the Pacific Coast Highway.
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Art Talk
Richard Diebenkorn at Weisman Museum at Pepperdine Hunter Drohojowska-Philp welcomes a show of previously unseen paintings.
Scheer Intelligence
The West Has Islam Dangerously Wrong University of Michigan professor and author Juan Cole explores our biggest misconceptions about the world's second-largest religion.