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LADOT recently added road diet bike lanes to Hoover Street in South L.A.

Annual LADOT Bikeway Implementation Continues Dismal Trend

By Joe Linton | Jul 9, 2019 | 4 Comments

Though LADOT has done several worthwhile new and upgraded bikeways, overall total mileage is a dismal failure: less than 5 miles of new on-street bikeway in the past year.

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.

South Central Gives Nipsey Hussle the Send-Off of a Lifetime

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 12, 2019 | No Comments

Few communities love harder than South Central.

Beverly Owens Addison holds the photo of her son, Frederick "Woon" Frazier, at a rally last July calling for the prosecution of the woman who left him to die in the street in April of 2018. Charges against driver Mariah Banks were finally filed this week, on April 3. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

A Year after Losing Her Only Son in a Hit-and-Run, a Mother Wonders when Justice Will Be Served

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 6, 2019 | 2 Comments

“I’m about to go out here, I’m bout to ride my bike. I’m bout to have me a good day,” he said, smiling. “I feel good today, Momma. Man, I’m free.”

Monday, February 11, a man was detained and handcuffed by USC's Department of Public Safety for riding on Washington Boulevard without a bike light. According to the officer who conducted the stop, the man requested to be allowed to sit down because he has a bad back. Screen grab from Facebook live video streamed by Estuardo David Mazariegos.

Handcuffing of Cyclist by USC Public Safety Raises Questions about Tactics, Oversight, Accountability

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 1, 2019 | 7 Comments

USC Public Safety Officers cuffed a man riding without a light, questioned him about warrants, and told him LAPD would be asked to come run a warrant check

In January, 2012, community members "cruise[d] Afro-central down the River Crenshaw," as poet Conney Williams' verse reads, to the base of "Elixir." The brief pilgrimage along the corridor from Coliseum to Stocker for the dedication of Patrick Henry Johnson's mural honored the connections between people, place, and the creative process. Williams read his poem, "Elixir," as part of the dedication ceremony. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Destination Crenshaw and the Rise of We-Built-this-Place-Making

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 8, 2019 | No Comments

Crenshaw turns "insult into opportunity” to reclaim space for the celebration of Black life, culture, and contributions via a 1.3-mile-long open-air "People's Museum"

L.A.'s transit workhorse: the Metro bus. Photo via Wikimedia

What Projects Should Be Accelerated for the 2028 Olympics? How Can These Advance Equity?

By Joe Linton | Feb 8, 2019 | 14 Comments

For 2028 Olympics project acceleration to foster equity, don't speed up highway projects. Instead focus on improving the bus system.

Cortez Wright, at right, first joined the guys he looked up to from BKoB in the King Day Parade when he was 13. Now 17, he and friends Prince (left) and Jacob (center) are the ones inspiring the next generation of riders. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Community Service Comes Full Circle for Members of Black Kids on Bikes at King Day Parade

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jan 23, 2019 | 2 Comments

Youth BKoB inspired to join in the parade years ago now serve as inspiration for the next generation

The Crenshaw Wall tells the story of the community's resilience, strength, beauty, and power. Someone covered the faces of four female Black Panthers (one of which is in the frame) with swastikas on November 29th. The streetlight was down to make way for the Space Shuttle Endeavor as it moved up Crenshaw in 2012. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Black Panther Movement Figures on Crenshaw’s Great Wall Defaced with Swastikas

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 29, 2018 | 6 Comments

Earlier today, Jasmyne Cannick alerted the South Central community to the swastikas defacing the “Our Mighty Contribution” mural gracing Crenshaw’s 7800-foot-long Great Wall. Vandals deface Black Panther mural on Crenshaw Blvd. in #SouthLA with swastikas. https://t.co/UH3NXO4TkF — Jasmyne Cannick (@Jasmyne) November 29, 2018 Even as she lamented the hate crime, hateful comments were popping up […]

This (in-progress) detail by artist Jaime Scholnick will feature in a larger panel of scenes running along one of the underground walls at the Expo/Crenshaw station. Source: Jaime Scholnick

Art, the Crenshaw/LAX Line, and the Stories We (Don’t) Tell at Train Stations

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 1, 2018 | No Comments

Given the role public investment can have in reshaping marginalized communities, what responsibilities does Metro have as an entity that seeks to tell stories about the places it moves people through?

The vacant lots encompassing the 8400 and 8500 blocks on Vermont have held the community hostage to blight for over 26 years. The 8300 block (from which this photo was taken) had also remained vacant for a number of years and was originally going to be incorporated into the Vermont Entertainment Village project. In the mid-2000s, Eli Sasson sold off his 8300 block parcels (helping to doom the mall project) and the County services building rose on it instead in 2007. Source: County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas

As Vermont/Manchester Transportation School Moves Forward, Community Reckons with Past, Wrestles with Form Change Should Take

By Sahra Sulaiman | Oct 16, 2018 | 2 Comments

For black stakeholders eager to shed the despised "Death Alley" label and address the damage rooted in segregationist policies, the stakes feel especially high

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New from StreetFilms: Los Angeles: The Great American Transit Experiment

By Joe Linton | Oct 9, 2018 | 10 Comments

StreetFilms and TransitCenter explore L.A. transit successes and issues, and question what is needed to make transit better serve the county's future

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