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Long Beach: Garcia Follows Garcetti in Restoring LA River
Back in April, former director of Long Beach Park, Recreation & Marine Phil Hester sat in front of a bunch of urbanerds and bicyclists, pedestrian-oriented folks and designers, and discussed an idea that is both brilliant and needed on a community level: the 2002 RiverLinks projects. RiverLinks would vastly use the underused L.A. River by connecting the west sides of Districts 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9 to the river via biking/ped/green utopia.
November 14, 2013
Despite Calls for Boycott, Los Angeles and Long Beach to Continue Relationship with Troubled BYD
Several labor and social justice organizations—thirteen to be exact—called on the three public agencies engaged with bus manufacturer BYD Motors to boycott their engagement while protesting in front of BYD's office in Downtown LA. However, despite all the shouting, chanting, and finger-pointing, all three agencies—LA Metro, Long Beach Transit (LBT), and the City of Los Angeles—are not making any moves that indicate they will abandon the troubled bus manufacturer.
November 6, 2013
Long Beach: Re-Imagining East 7th Street
There's something to say about collaboration in any sense of the term, be it social or political, design or communal. And the East 7th Street Collaboration--a congregation of the neighborhoods of Rose Park, Craftsman Village, and North Alamitos Beach--has opted to override the City in favor of getting their vision done themselves.
October 28, 2013
Long Beach Development Could Redefine Mixed-Income, Senior Living
Contemporary. Hip. Accessible. Vibrant. Artistic.
October 24, 2013
Is Long Beach Looking to Roll Towards Bike Share without Bike Nation?
As Los Angeles quietly (but directly) abandons Bike Nation and Santa Monica pirouettes past both cities to pave the way for its city-wide bike share program, one can't help but ask Long Beach: Are we continuing to go forward with a company which largely ignores the media, lacks a fulfillment of promises, and ultimately seems to wear a name tag it put on itself instead of earning?
October 17, 2013
Long Beach’s Terminal Island Freeway Removal Project Scores $250k Caltrans Study Grant
After two attempts at gaining money, the three-year long dream to remove the northern portion of the Terminal Island Freeway (I-103) just took another step towards reality after the City of Long Beach scored a quarter-million Cal Trans grant for environmental justice transportation planning.
October 15, 2013
Long Beach: Uh-Oh, (More) Flaws Discovered in BYD Electric Buses
Looks like the electric buses coming from China-based company Build Your Dreams (BYD)—the ones procured by both Long Beach Transit (LBT) and Los Angeles Metro—are becoming an even larger nightmare.
October 11, 2013
Long Beach Introduces Its First Entirely ADA-Accessible Garden
"I think of a busy mother," Kathleen Irvine--someone Long Beach can safely call our own Mother of the Westside--said. "And there she is: stressed out from work and wanting to cater to her children and herself. But how? I think of someone who doesn't have the physical capabilities of most and there he is: unable to enjoy a park because he can't even access most of it."
October 9, 2013
As Cities Big and Small Move on Bike Share, LA and LB Wait for Bike Nation
It's been no major secret that things with Bike Nation aren't pedaling so well.
October 8, 2013