Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Long Beach

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.

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Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Long Beach

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

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

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

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

Beach Streets University Open Streets Open Thread

Construction Committee Approves Blue Line Improvement Study