Busway Extension Public Hearings
http://snipurl.com/212xn
San Fernando Valley Business Journal
Crashes vs. congestion
http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_8471752
Daily Breeze
GE plugs into electric car investments
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8V79O0O0.htm
Business Week
Iowa’s Senator Harkin Introduces “Complete Streets Act”
http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/03/05/iowas-senator-harkin-introduces-complete-streets-act/
StreetsBlog LA
L.A. loses millions of dollars when billboard sites (and 3,200 bus shelters) rejected
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_8469171
Daily News
LA Mass Transit: Get It Running
http://www.citywatchla.com/content/view/1071/75/
CityWatchLA
Mecca train derailment takes toll on economy
http://snipurl.com/2144d
Desert Sun
mpark4 theaters offers movies via Metro for downtowners
http://www.angelenic.com/mpark4-theaters-offers-movies-via-metro-for-downtowners/
Angelenic
National Train Day
http://metroriderla.com/2008/03/05/national-train-day/
MetrRiderLA
Near-Total Recall - This Metro board plays tough before rolling over to spend millions of your dollars
http://www.lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/near_total_recall/6781/
L.A. City Beat
New AAA Study Shows LA/OC Traffic Crashes Cost Nearly $11 Billion Annually
Second-Highest Cost in US
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=828958
Market Wire
Once again, cost of gas sets records in Bay Area, across the state
http://www.mercurynews.com/localnewsheadlines/ci_8474453
Mercury News
One-way street for Olympic Boulevard?
http://www.dailynews.com/breakingnews/ci_8474322
Daily News
Orange Line route to add Chatsworth
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_8469158
Daily News
Ports of Harm - With the death toll in the thousands every year, what will it take for L.A. and Long Beach to clean up their act?
http://www.lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/ports_of_harm/6782/
L.A. City Beat
Reasons To Live A Transit Oriented Life
http://metroriderla.com/2008/03/05/reasons-to-live-a-transit-oriented-life/
MetroRiderLA
State Avoids Blame As Metro Prepares Service Cuts
http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/03/05/state-avoids-blame-as-metro-prepares-service-cuts/
StreetsBlog LA
Status of truckers is a big hitch in port plan
L.A. and Long Beach mayors agree on all other key aspects of the clean-air strategy
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mayors6mar06,1,5715467.story?track=rss
Los Angeles Times
Victorville loses $30 million for Nisqualli interchange
http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/sanbag_5277___article.html/city_funding.html
Victorville Daily Press
The wheel turns against gasoline - Americans reduce gas consumption as prices continue to rise
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/3/4/113913/0054
Grist
Event:
MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Present:
Ah CA va bien
March 7 - 9, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 6, 7 - 9 pm
MAK Center for Art and Architecture Los Angeles
Schindler House
835 North Kings Road
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Contact:
t: 323-651-1510
office@makcenter.org
www.makcenter.org
Interested in metropolitan transportation and its role in the production of public space, Theresa Krenn and Bernhard Eder will investigate the underrepresented bus-system in Los Angeles. For their final project they will present narrative bus maps that tell the social and spatial history of the city and its bus system.
Krenn and Eder will create alternative route-maps of existing bus lines. Each map will contain a narrative which is characterized by its location in the city and which mixes historical contents, contemporary reality and fictional narratives. By these means, the architects question ordinary perceptions of public transportation issues and their relationship to the present layout of Los Angeles. The project invites the audience to experience a narrated tour through the city searching for public space in Los Angeles. It leaves the possibility to the voyager to verify existing images of the city in order to re-evaluate urban space.
For the exhibition, Krenn and Eder will present a map of their tour as well as the narrative bus-maps. Copies of these maps will be available to exhibition visitors and the experience of riding the bus will be conveyed by sound mappings the architects have made on their own journey through Los Angeles.
