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February 1, 2012
Welcome to Streetsblog: Kris, Sahra and Carlos
Today is the day Los Angeles Streetsblog has been waiting for since our first launch in March of 2008. Today, we’re expanding. Everyone give a warm welcome to our two newest writers, Kris Fortin and Sahra Sulaiman.
February 1, 2012
Carving Out “Sacred” Space for Culture in the Streets
Although the pilgrimage route along Crenshaw Blvd. was short—0.8 miles, to be exact, it was rich in meaning.
January 24, 2012
Crenshaw Subway Coalition Sees Opening in FTA Approval of Crenshaw Environmental Documents
As the second trickled away on the 2011 work year, the Federal Transit Administration issued its Record of Decision approving the environmental documents for the Crenshaw Light Rail Line. The approval allows Metro to go forward with preliminary acquisitions and work needed to construct the line. It also makes the project able to receive federal funds, although most of the project is paid for with funds from the Measure R sales tax.
January 5, 2012
USC Gets a Village, Jefferson Boulevard Gets a Bike Lane
The Village at USC, a 5.23 million square foot mixed use development being programmed by the University of Southern California, is back in the news. Yesterday, Blog Downtown examined how the retail plans for the project could impact the Downtown. But the project could also have a major impact on the car parking in the area both in the garages that will be developed and on Jefferson Boulevard.
November 1, 2011
Negligent Driver Tries to Take an Early Trip on Expo
By now, many of you have seen the pictures that Gökhan Esirgen took of a car sitting on the Expo tracks at the station of Exposition Boulevard and Vermont Avenue that appeared on the Transit Coalition forum Tuesday evening. A quick call to the Expo Construction Authority confirmed that the picture shows exactly what people thought it showed, a distracted driver actually took a left onto the Expo tracks.
October 27, 2011
Transportation and Food Access Idea 1: Transit and Good Food
(Mark Vallianatos is Policy Director of UEPI and an Adjunct Professor at Occidental College, where he currently teaches the Environmental Stewards class. Mark is co-author of The Next Los Angeles: the Struggle for a Livable City and a number of publications on food access, transportation, and goods movement.)
October 25, 2011
Fearless Prediction: Lawsuits Coming on Crenshaw Line
The Source had barely published its story highlighting the Metro Board's decision to approve the environmental certification of a Crenshaw Light Rail line that may or may not have a Leimert Park Station and definately runs at-grade through the Crenshaw communities' top retail corridor when I caught up to Damien Goodmon, the head of the Crenshaw Subway Coalition. His reaction was concise and clear, "The Metro board has had its say, now it is time for the community to have its say through the courts."
September 23, 2011
When Safe Routes to School Is About More than Bike Lanes and Sidewalks
What do you do when the main barrier to encouraging more students to walk and bicycle to school isn't social pressures or broken infrastructure, but a different sort of public safety hazard? What do you do when it's not motorists, but gangs that imperil children who want to walk or bike to school?
September 1, 2011