Brian Addison
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Long Beach To Put Downtown LB Bike Share Program Out To Bid
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We have been waiting for bike share—for over two years. And it seems, Long Beach, that we are finally in the more tangible stages of receiving it. According to Nathan Baird, Mobility Coordinator for the City of Long Beach, the City will be going out to bid in the next six weeks to pursue a bike share […]
RFP Goes Out for Terminal Island Freeway Removal Project; Marks SoCal’s First Freeway Removal Project
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It’s been named one of the top “Freeways Without Futures” in the nation and described as a “perfect example of obsolete infrastructure.” Its removal has been fought for by City Fabrick founder Brian Ulaszewski since 2010, long before the existence of Fabrick itself. It has been a blight on a neighborhood that sees some of the least […]
The New(est) Urbanist Mayor of Long Beach
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Disclosure: Mr. Addison is and has been a personal friend of Mr. Garcia for nearly a decade. If there was anything to be said about the election of Long Beach’s next mayor, it was that it showed a city divided—but not in the sense one would think. On the one hand, there was a Long Beach that—at least for […]
Long Beach Named #3 on List of Bike Friendly Cities
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(This story appeared earlier today on Long Beachize. – DN) And at number three we sit. The Alliance for Biking & Walking has named Long Beach the third most bike friendly city in the States, just behind San Francisco and Austin (Tx) . The point of the report is simple: to make sure that data […]
Redondo Avenue in Long Beach Receives $2.2M Facelift
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Shortly after the groundbreaking of a massive redevelopment project focused on downtown Long Beach’s Pine Avenue, the east-meets-west arterial that is Redondo Avenue broke ground on a $2.2M street improvement plan that stretches from the 2nd to the 4th District. One of the stretch’s largest intersections—Redondo and Broadway, home to one of Broadway’s most beloved […]
CNU Deems Terminal Island Freeway Top 10 ‘Freeway Without Future’
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The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU)—the country’s premiere organization which is founded on creating walkable, neighborhood-based development—released its 2014 “Freeways Without Futures” report, listing Long Beach’s own Terminal Island (TI) Freeway amongst its top 10 prospects for removal. Calling it a “perfect example of obsolete infrastructure,” CNU echoes the time-consuming efforts put forth by […]
The New Blue Line: $1.2B Overhaul Over Next Six Years
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After nearly a quarter of a century in operation, Los Angeles County’s oldest and most popular light-rail line—Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro)’s Blue Line—will see a six-year, $1.2B overhaul. The massive capital project will be funded through Measure R, the $40B, half-cent sales tax initiative overwhelmingly passed by Angelino County voters in 2008 in order to […]
The End of “Super Sharrows?”
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First brought to Long Beach in 2009 and most recently installed in Oakland, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has discontinued the use of “super sharrows,” the green bike lanes that are shared with regular traffic, as well as green-backed sharrows. The super sharrow—or some call “green carpets”—are like the ones found in Belmont Shore to […]
Damage Control: BYD Brings Crisis Manager to Address Issues
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(We’re not going to republish every Long Beachize article on Streetsblog, so you really should Like us on Facebook and Follow us on Twitter. – DN) Like sand through the hourglass… In an attempt to create some form of damage control, BYD Motors brought on a crisis management lawyer by the name of Lanny Davis […]
LongBeachize: BYD Electric Bus Procurement Further Delayed
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The BYD Motors drama is quickly becoming the novela of the transit community in Southern California, as the bus manufacturer—via Long Beach Transit (LBT)’s Rolando Cruz—is expected to delay the delivery of LBT’s electric bus fleet. The troubled bus manufacturer, whose North American offices in Los Angeles are operated by China-based BYD, controversially scored the contract with LBT this […]
Long Beach: The Other Terminal Island Bridge Project
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The massive Gerald Desmond Bridge replacement project—y’know, that pocket-change $1B, 1.5 mile roadway project that will sit perched above the Long Beach Harbor—has shadowed a smaller bridge project on Terminal Island: the Heim Bridge replacement project. The Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge, a vertical-lift bridge that opened in 1948, spans over the Cerritos Channel in […]
Long Beach: SoCal Biking Community Become Detectives (and Heroes)
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Contrary to common myth, not all advocacy websites want to discuss the plight of humanity’s inability to catch up with itself, despite my last two Streetsblog stories serving as Example A and Example B of why that myth may have some validity. Though the heroine of our tale, Cali Bike Tour’s fighting’-for-North-Long-Beach cyclist guru Elizabeth […]