Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Open Space

The city's Riverside Drive Bridge project renderings show bike lanes, but the finished version omitted the lanes, substituting sharrows instead. All photos by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

Another L.A. City Bridge Project Approved Bike Lanes but Omitted Them: Riverside/Zoo Bridge

By Joe Linton | May 10, 2021 | No Comments

Honey, we forgot the bike lanes

Mrs. Willa Bruce (left) with her daughter-in-law Meda (center) and her sister - near Bruce's Lodge in Manhattan Beach, ca 1920s . Photo via Living the California Dream by Alison Rose Jefferson, courtesy California African American Museum

L.A. County to Return Bruce’s Beach Property to Rightful Owners

By Joe Linton and Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 9, 2021 | No Comments

"The county isn't gifting anyone anything. The county is returning property that was inappropriately taken. We are returning to the Bruce family... property that they rightfully owned."

Rendering of Westwood greenway, showing drainage plan

The Westwood Neighborhood Greenway Is Now Complete

By Jonathan Weiss | Jan 25, 2021 | No Comments

The two-acre site, straddling the Metro E Line, cleanses urban runoff before it flows into the Santa Monica Bay

Rendering of rainwater capture creekbed feature proposed along the L.A. River at Griffith Park Ferraro Soccer Fields - via L.A. County

L.A. County Seeks Public Input on New L.A. River Plan

By Joe Linton | Jan 13, 2021 | No Comments

The new L.A. County river plan includes bike/walk trails, big projects, strategies to address affordability and housing, and more.

Alhambra is looking to apply for for state funding for seven park projects. The rendering shows a proposed pocket park on the current site of a former satellite library on the corner of South Fremont and West Hellman Avenues. Image: City of Alhambra

City of Alhambra Hosting Community Feedback Meetings for Park Grant Applications

By Kristopher Fortin | Oct 16, 2020 | No Comments

Alhambra staff are looking to apply for grants to build one new pocket park, a community center, and other upgrades and renovations at five other parks

Catch LADOT Transit's electric DASH bus at the Sunset/Vermont Metro Red Line Station. Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

LADOT Improving Griffith Park Observatory/Los Feliz DASH Service

By Joe Linton | Jul 29, 2019 | 2 Comments

Starting next Monday LADOT is improving the frequency to every 15 minutes (from every 20 minutes) and extending weekday hours

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