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Rolling with the Real Rydaz Low Rider Bike Club
The Real Rydaz Low Rider Bike Club are comprised of around 30 riders, and distinguished from other groups by the insane amount of detail that goes into crafting their custom bikes. It's all for a good cause, however. They hope that by riding with pride through the streets of their communities--communities where recreational riding is sometimes rare--they are sending a message about the importance of being healthy to youth and adults alike. It is a real club with dues and a probationary period.
February 10, 2012
A Ride to the Watts Towers: More than a Ride to the Watts Towers
Several years ago, I spent a week photographing a stretch of 37th St. as part of a neighborhood documentation project of the area around USC. Where other photographers had diligently snapped structures and streets, I had cajoled residents into participating in the project and later gave them copies of the photos so they could see the final product. The soul of a neighborhood is its people, I had argued in defending my approach at the time. Without them, the structures are just a shell.
February 7, 2012
Building Community One Story at a Time
A South LA Filmmaker Captures the Stories of African-American Cyclists on Film
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