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A Bus Rider’s Frustration With Transit Planners
Nick Magrino at Streets.mn describes what it's like to ride the bus in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area: Multiple transfers to get to a destination, waiting environments that seem to be designed to repel people -- it can feel like a series of small humiliations.
November 27, 2013
The Glendale-Hyperion Bridge Project, Musings on Bridges as Destinations, and High Hopes for the New Citizen Advisory Committee
I am sometimes puzzled by how disconnected an infrastructure plan can be from what is good for a community.
November 26, 2013
The Dept. of Parks and Rec Wants Your Input on What Parks Should Be
I've been watching the makeover that the Julian C. Dixon/48th St. Park on Hoover and 48th has been undergoing for the past couple of months with some interest.
November 22, 2013
USC Reneges on Some Commitments to Street Improvements Along Jefferson; Neighbors are Concerned
"USC is prepared to enhance this public benefits package to include extending the boundaries of the graffiti abatement program to Western Ave., extending the bicycle lane on Jefferson to Western, [and] extending the proposed streetscape improvements and street trees to Western Ave.," said Dale Goldsmith, Land Use Counsel for USC in testimony before the Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) committee hearing in May of last year.
November 21, 2013
Learn About “Hotel Mariachi” at a Book Signing at the Mariachi Festival This Weekend
If you've been to Mariachi Plaza, then you've seen the beautiful Boyle Hotel, or Hotel Mariachi, as it is known to many, that sits on the corner of 1st and Boyle.
November 19, 2013
What’s Next? A Re-Boot of Long Beachize
For just over a year, the Southern California Streets Initiative, the co-publisher of Streetsblog Los Angeles and publisher of Santa Monica Next, has teased that a "Streetsblog Long Beach" is just around the corner. After forming a local advisory Board, and publishing news/opinion pieces by the Long Beach Post's Brian Addison, we're proud to make a little different announcement.
November 18, 2013
Ed P. Reyes River Greenway On the Verge of Opening for Business
On my way home from Boyle Heights, I often pass through the section of Lincoln Heights that is squeezed between the river and the 5 Fwy.
November 15, 2013
Improvements Along First Street in Boyle Heights Begin to Take Shape
Don't you want to take a picture of me and put it on the Internet? a man wearing two casts on his arms and a "Fall Risk" wrist band asked in Spanish.
November 12, 2013
Thanks to Space 15 Twenty, Widmer Brothers Brewing and ARTCRANK for an Amazing Saturday Night
Even from the bike valet parked a good twenty yards from the entrance I could tell that the party was hopping. For whatever reason, ARTCRANK LAX 2013 was a much larger event than the previous incarnation, even with so many out of town for the Bike Summit in Oakland.
November 12, 2013