Traffic & transit measure R passes
January 18, 2009
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky hailed voter passage of County Measure R, an ambitious 30-year investment program aimed at relieving traffic congestion, repairing roads and highways, and extending the County’s subway and light-rail transit lines throughout the region. The current tally Countywide stands at 67.3% – 32.7%, but Third District voters approved the measure 72.9% – 27.1%, with support especially high in areas where traffic congestion is most acute. Here’s how Third District communities voted:
- Agoura: 63.6% – 34.6%
- Agoura Hills: 60.4% – 39.6%
- Beverly Hills: 74.7% – 25.2%
- Calabasas: 64.2% – 35.8%
- Hidden Hills: 60.6% – 39.4%
- Los Angeles: 72% – 28%
- Malibu: 69.2% – 30.8%
- Malibu Heights: 68.6% – 31.4%
- San Fernando: 70.9% – 29.1%
- Santa Monica: 77.3% – 22.7%
- Topanga: 73.7% – 26.3%
- West Hills (uninc.): 62% – 38%
- West Hollywood: 83.6% – 16.4%
- Westlake Village: 59.9% – 40.1%
For full details on how Measure R will work, the projects it funds and the communities it serves, visit Metro and Measure R.
A lens on their young lives
January 16, 2009
For months, Venice Arts teamed with ten youths between the ages of 13 and 18 to document their lives through photography in the downtown Garment District. The photographers–recruited at St. Francis Center, a service agency for the homeless and near homeless–are primarily the children of garment workers and day laborers, living in some of Los Angeles’ most impoverished neighborhoods. Amid the hype over downtown’s revitalization, the voices of such young people are rarely heard. This project tells pieces of their stories. (Venice Arts receives funding from the Third District and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission). [Read more]
