The National Women’s Cycling Summit: This Is Not a Bike
Leah Missbach Day, co-founder of World Bicycle Relief and the keynote speaker to inaugurate the Women's Bicycling Summit, was very succinct with her main point about a bike:
September 17, 2012
Part I: Architects, Advocates, Ponder Future of Long Beach Civic Center
Monday night, Long Beach Heritage (LBH) and the Long Beach/South Bay chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) hosted a discussion posing one question: What are the possibilities for our Civic Center?
September 12, 2012
Major Changes at Long Beach Transit
Long Beach Transit (LBT) underwent what it considered to be major changed last week, replacing much of its diesel model buses with compressed natural gas (CNG) buses, a revamp of its mobile website, and the alteration of routes which included its controversial halting of service to Seal Beach. THE CNG SWITCH: The switch to CNG … Continued
September 4, 2012
Long Beach: Bike Nation Brings 10 Year, $12 Million Investment
The Long Beach City Council, in a 9-0 vote, will permit Bike Nation to launch a 10-year, $12 million bike share program in the city, thereby creating one of the largest of its kind in the state.
August 27, 2012
Long Beach: Downtown Promenade Continues to Grow
Back in 2005, the City started planning for the Promenade in Downtown. It was at the time a very stark and bland stretch of concrete with little around it besides parking lots and a lack of amenities. Since then, things have changed, particularly for pedestrian and bike-geared citizens.< “The improvements encourage local residents and employees … Continued
August 17, 2012
Long Beach: Suja Lowenthal Takes Her “One Shot” to Create Inclusive Transportation
There is a reason Suja Lowenthal is speaking at the Pro Walk/Pro Bike Conference—and it goes beyond her being a policy maker for Long Beach, where the conference is going to be held this year. It's because she holds a simple streetscape philosophy: if you gear urban design towards the most vulnerable of mobility types, walking, it can and will be safer for all mobility types.
August 13, 2012
Long Beach: Livingston Drive Repaving Comes with More Sharrows and Wider Sidewalks
The 3rd District of Long Beach is home to the first Sharrow lanes in the city on 2nd Street in Belmont Shore. Today, the 3rd is expanding its number of Sharrows as it prepares to repave Livingston Drive between 2nd Street and Termino Avenue.
August 6, 2012
Can CUPS Force Out Liquor Stores in North Long Beach
It was a five year process that was finally approved in 2007: a strip of used car dealerships along Long Beach Boulevard were told that a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) would be required for their operation along with compliance of what were called "performance standards" that ranged from limiting lot size to landscaping.
July 31, 2012