Metro’s Mid-Freeway Transit Stations Are Hellishly Loud
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Metro's mid-freeway transit stations are annoyingly loud environments and may be harmful to your health
Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Public Health
Metro Asks South L.A. Stakeholders: How Would You Use Rail-to-River Bike/Pedestrian Path?
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“They’ve started work on that bike path!” a South Central bike shop owner announced excitedly after noticing mounds of dirt piled up in the rail right-of-way (ROW) at Slauson and Normandie. He couldn’t wait for it to be finished, he said. The Rail-to-River path – a bike and pedestrian path that would cut across South […]
Proyecto Jardin Evicted from Community Garden at White Memorial; Protest Planned for Saturday
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This Sunday, January 31st, the eviction of the community gardening collective known as Proyecto Jardin from the garden space behind White Memorial Medical Center in Boyle Heights will mark a significant change for the neighborhood. In a community that has felt very much at the mercy of externally-driven change in recent years, many residents are […]
USC Public Health Professor Asks for Better Transportation Options to USC
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Transportation issues at the University of Southern California have been in the news recently. Yesterday’s “Today’s Headlines” featured a story about how USC’s students rely on bicycles, but the administration is making it more and more difficult to bring bicycles onto campus. Earlier in the week, the focus was on the faculty outrage that the […]
Westside Urban Forum Tackles “Healthy Communities”
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What is a healthy community? And what role does the built environment play in creating a healthy community? These were the questions tackled by a Westside Urban Forum panel Friday, moderated by UCLA Professor, Fred Zimmerman, who chairs the Department of Health Policy and Management. Also on the panel were Streetsblog L.A. Communities Editor Sahra […]
Some Thoughts on Near Roadway Air Pollution and L.A.’s Future
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I attended a forum event yesterday, entitled “The Collision of Best Intentions: Public Health, Smart Growth, and Land Use Planning.” Speakers focused on “NRAP” – an acronym I wasn’t familiar with. NRAP stands for Near Roadway Air Pollution. It’s the study of pollution risks near freeways and other high-volume roads. I confess that I have […]