=. 58 white tires … ghost tires … one for each traffic fatality in 13 years … coming to Malibu. =. Caltrans sends condolences to the families of 4 students killed on the road … as it defends it safety record. =. The PCH Safety Task Force meets next week … for the first time […]
=. Malibu gets tons of support from the county and the state … to radically change PCH. =. Envision PCH as a boulevard … reduced lanes … maybe lanes barricaded off in places … lower speed limits for sure. = One city councilman wants to paste new numbers on the speed limit signs right now. […]
Why is Pacific Coast Highway posted for a 45 miles per hour speed limit in the heart of a residential neighborhood? Why is PCH still laid out to accommodate 55 mile per hour speeds … the highway’s original design speed when it was built in 1947? Those questions may come up at the Malibu city […]
WHO IS FRASER BOHM? 22 YEAR OLD AT WHEEL OF SPEEDING CAR THAT KILLED 4 PEPPERDINE STUDENTS WALKING ON DANGEROUS PCH A 22 year old Malibu man is accused by sheriff’s deputies of killing four young women … college seniors in Malibu. Fraser Bohm was booked for vehicular manslaughter yesterday … but for the time […]
The new Caltrans detour at the Trancas Creek bridge was finished at 6:30 this morning, and at 9:30 came the first crash. A woman driving east on PCH smacked straight into a concrete K-rail placed perpendicularly across the normal travel lanes, and shoved it more than a hundred feet into a power pole. The woman […]
Surf’s Up For Longboard Contest – Saturday At First Point The world long boarding competition is on for Saturday in Malibu. All this week … the world’s 16 best longbaorders have been on call to get to Malibu for the contest … at First Point … Surfrider beach. Race organizers had called it off this […]
The California Fair Political Practices Commission has followed through on threats from some community activists, and today notified city council members Paul Grisanti and Marianne Riggins that they had opened an investigation based on a complaint filed by a Bay Area attorney. The Commission’s investigation chief said it opening an investigation based on complaints by […]
ROUTE AND TIME CHANGES TO THIS YEAR’S TRIATHLON, SAT AFTERNOON AND SUN MORN The Malibu Triathlon makes its 38th appearance at Zuma Beach this weekend, with the pro races Saturday afternoon and the big fundraiser run/swim/bike on Sunday afternoon. The bike race will not be on PCH … thanks to the flooded Zuma Creek underpass. […]
Last week … city council member Brice Silverstein publicly blasted his employees at City Hall. He accused the City of Malibu of placing “celebrities and the uber-wealthy over residents.” He publicly accused the city staff … and we quote … of “selling out to the Kardashians.” He accused city staff of rushing through an “emergency […]
‘TRANSIENT’ BURNS CARDBOARD IN ESCONDIDO CANYON AREA A transient person may have set his own cardboard shelter on fire earlier this month …. Near Escondido Beach. A fire was reported in the early morning hours of September 16th … in the heavy brush near the Escondido Creek bridge … just east of Geoffrey’s restaurant. Sergeant […]