{"id":239646,"date":"2026-03-27T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/239646\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:17:09","slug":"the-week-in-short-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/239646\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Short Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday: I swear I was going to just post this short video and leave it at that for our coverage of this month&#8217;s California Transportation Commission. But after I saw the governor&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2026\/03\/25\/governor-newsom-announces-nearly-900-million-for-cutting-edge-transportation-systems-of-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">self-congratulatory press release<\/a> I couldn&#8217;t help myself and <a href=\"https:\/\/cal.streetsblog.org\/2026\/03\/26\/despite-gavs-spin-transportation-commission-funded-a-lot-of-highway-expansion-last-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">wrote an op\/ed yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday: Streets for All thinks if Southern California got serious about capturing part of the value created by high-speed rail, <a href=\"https:\/\/cal.streetsblog.org\/2026\/03\/25\/streets-for-all-socal-could-fund-all-of-southlands-high-speed-rail-with-eifd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">it could fund its own portion immediately<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Friday: Streetsblog L.A. continues a series of videos showcasing the city of Long Beach&#8217;s livability innovations. When developers build new housing, the city often requires them to add new bike, walk, and\/or transit facilities. Essentially the city gets free bike stuff! To read more about Long Beach&#8217;s community benefits facilities, see <a href=\"https:\/\/la.streetsblog.org\/2024\/03\/13\/many-cities-get-free-bike-and-bus-upgrades-from-new-development\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">this 2024 SBLA explainer<\/a> or more recent posts showcasing examples on <a href=\"https:\/\/la.streetsblog.org\/2026\/03\/16\/eyes-on-the-street-short-new-protected-bike-lane-on-pacific-avenue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Pacific Avenue<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/la.streetsblog.org\/2025\/05\/20\/eyes-on-the-street-another-long-beach-development-triggered-bike-bus-improvement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Long Beach Boulevard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday: I swear I was going to just post this short video and leave it at that for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-239646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}