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Friends and supporters of Frederick "Woon" Frazier march up Normandie to honor his memory and ask for the city to slow their streets down. All photos by Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Friends, Family March for Justice for Woon, Pen Personal Messages Asking for Change

By Sahra Sulaiman | Dec 16, 2019 | No Comments

"Whenever I ride, I think if I'll make it back to see my mom wake up or to have dinner. Put yourself in our shoes."

Liliana Cortez with some of the injuries she sustained after being tackled to the ground by officers from USC's Department of Public Safety after she hugged a tree on a sorority's front lawn. She sustained bruising on her arms, shoulders, back, ribs, thighs, knees, calves, and wrists. The photos were taken the night she was released from jail. Images courtesy Liliana Cortez

USC’s Public Safety Officers Tackle, Traumatize Woman for Hugging Tree on Sorority’s Lawn

By Sahra Sulaiman | Dec 6, 2019 | No Comments

"How is USC going to make it right?"

Santa Monica's pioneer e-scooter/e-bike program provides an important look at how shared mircromobility is performing. Photo via SM report

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Santa Monica Extends Pioneering E-Scooter Pilot Program

By Joe Linton | Nov 15, 2019 | No Comments

Santa Monica is planning modifying its shared micro-mobility pilot in 2020. The initial year has yielded plenty of data on how e-scooters are working

Proposed zoning under DTLA 2040. Capture via DCP website interactive map

L.A. Proposes Eliminating Parking Requirements Downtown

By Joe Linton | Oct 31, 2019 | No Comments

Downtown L.A. follows Lancaster, Santa Monica, San Diego, San Francisco, Houston, and Cincinnati in eliminating unneeded parking requirements.

Map of Metro and Via's Mobility on Demand pilot service areas - via Metro report

Six Months in, Metro/Via Mobility on Demand Pilot is an Expensive Flop

By Joe Linton | Oct 9, 2019 | No Comments

With free rides and $1.75 million Metro subsidy the pilot is serves about a third of the ridership a low-performing bus route. Per ride cost is well over $20.

Caltrans Settles Environment Lawsuit, Cancels High Desert Freeway Project

By Joe Linton | Oct 2, 2019 | 49 Comments

Thanks to a Climate Resolve lawsuit, Caltrans has agreed to halt work on the Metro-funded High Desert Corridor freeway

All images from Metro's Understanding How Women Travel report

New Metro Report: Understanding How Women Travel

By Joe Linton | Sep 27, 2019 | 4 Comments

Metro's new report lays the groundwork for Metro efforts to improve women riders' experience via an upcoming Gender Action Plan.

The intersection at 98th and Vermont where 58-year-old Anna Graves was killed Tuesday night. [Source: Google maps]

Paint Is Not Protection: 58-year-old Woman Killed in Horrific Hit-and-Run at Vermont and 98th

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 23, 2019 | 17 Comments

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.

Jermaine Welch shows off the shoe he had custom painted in Nipsey Hussle's honor while waiting for Hussle's funeral procession to pass through the intersection at Crenshaw and Slauson on April 11. Hussle was killed in front of his store, The Marathon, on March 31. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Nipsey Hussle Understood Cities Better than You. Why Didn’t You Know Who He Was?

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 15, 2019 | 22 Comments

"I swore to tell the world if I made it out/The truth about these L.A. streets and all what they about"

Big Wonky Good News: L.A. City Adopts People-Centered Transportation Metric: “VMT” In, “LOS” Out

By Joe Linton | Aug 6, 2019 | 10 Comments

VMT puts the E back into CEQA.

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