Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Long Beach

Long Beach Architects Partner with Religious Leaders to Convert Church Properties into Bridge Housing

By Brian Addison | Sep 12, 2018

Collaborating with the Long Beach firm Studio One Eleven, the unexpected partnership is examining hundreds of church properties throughout the county and looking into how these properties could act as bridge housing for the homeless.

Cesar Rodríguez' ashes are the centerpiece of an altar that takes up one side of the common room where his family lives. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Video of Moments Before Man Crushed by Blue Line Train Raises More Questions for Family in Mourning

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 14, 2018 | 5 Comments

"They stole a part of our hearts with my brother."

Motion Seeks to Ease Tensions Over 710 Expansion by Focusing on Displacement Elimination, Community Enhancements

By Brian Addison | Feb 28, 2018 | 6 Comments

Metro Board Member and Supervisor Hilda Solis, backed by fellow board member and Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia, has drafted a motion that will put the 710 expansion on hold while focusing on the community projects attached to the massive infrastructure proposal.

Original Blue Line Train Officially City of Long Beach Property with Hopes to Turn It Into a ‘New Kind of Public Space’

By Brian Addison | Sep 29, 2017

Via:LongBeachize It’s official: the first train to ever be part of Metro Los Angeles (Metro)’s transit system—the precise one pictured above that went from DTLA to DTLB in 1990— is now officially the property of the City of Long Beach after Mayor Robert Garcia proposed the train being returned to Long Beach. And that means we […]

A man bikes east on Anaheim St. above the 710. Photos by Brian Addison.

710 Project Releases REIR; Proposal Creates Further Ped/Bike Danger for West & North Long Beach

By Brian Addison | Aug 1, 2017 | 3 Comments

Widening the southern 710 Freeway is not going to help Long Beach pedestrians and cyclists.

Metro Blue Line to (Finally) Receive Light Synchronization Along Long Beach Stretch

By Brian Addison | May 9, 2017 | 5 Comments

After years of discussion, light synchronization along the Blue Line in Long Beach is coming this fall.

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