Adding Insult to Injury, Metro to Re-Open Reduced-Service Blue Line a Month Late
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Metro announced a month delay to re-opening the Blue Line - but the word "delay" does not appear in Metro's announcement
Recent Streetsblog LA posts about South LA
In an effort to show how transportation, open space, planning and other issues impact the health and character of a community, Streetsblog and The California Endowment teamed to bring Streetsblog’s coverage to a hyper-local level in Boyle Heights and South Los Angeles. Sahra Sulaiman is the Communities Editor for Streetsblog Los Angeles and is leading our coverage efforts in these communities. This page serves as a place to read Sahra’s and all of Streetsblog’s coverage of issues in South L.A. Contact Sahra at sahra[at]streetsblog.org or on twitter: @sahrasulaiman.
Eyes on the Street: the Human Toll of Hit-and-Runs
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Our streets are full of too many memorials.
![The intersection at 98th and Vermont where 58-year-old Anna Graves was killed Tuesday night. [Source: Google maps]](https://i2.wp.com/la.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-23-at-9.47.47-AM.png?resize=800%2C450px&ssl=1)
Paint Is Not Protection: 58-year-old Woman Killed in Horrific Hit-and-Run at Vermont and 98th
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Paint and signage suggesting a pedestrian can expect a safe crossing where drivers regularly hit well above 40 miles an hour is not just negligence, it's criminal. Especially at night.
Events this Weekend Draw Attention to Gruesome Hit-and-Run that Left Teen Severely Injured
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After packing his purchases from the market at 37th and Maple into his backpack on the night of August 6, 15-year-old Roberto Díaz hopped on his bike, heading home to meet the friend that he’d just sent on ahead a minute earlier. One might expect Maple to be pretty quiet, traffic-wise, in that section of […]
City Attorney Keeps up Pressure to Evict Nipsey Hussle’s Legacy from Crenshaw and Slauson
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The effort to push Hussle off the corner of Crenshaw and Slauson is nothing new, but the timing couldn't be worse.
Billionaire Jeff Greene’s Plans to Raze Dorset Village Are About as Awful as You Might Imagine
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The project would displace 206 households from rent-controlled units while coming up short on providing affordable replacement units