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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

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

Protestors form a people-protected bike lane outside the NACTO conference this morning. Photo by People Protected LA

As Garcetti Speaks at NACTO, L.A. Mobility Advocates Protest Lack of Progress

By Joe Linton | Oct 2, 2018 | 2 Comments

Mayor Garcetti touted L.A.'s "transportation renaissance" while demonstrators criticized the Mayor's lack of progress on Vision Zero

Kindness in action. In a new Metro etiquette PSA, "Super Kind" blasts "Rude Dude" in the face for listening to loud music.

Metro PSAs Target Vendors, Make Other Missteps in Effort to Teach Transit Etiquette

By Sahra Sulaiman | Sep 26, 2018 | 20 Comments

“Wait, did they just deport the vendor?”

The Paul R. Williams Apartments at 1010 E. Jefferson Blvd. in Historic South Central. Williams was the first African-American architect to receive the AIA Gold Medal (it was awarded posthumously in 2017; Williams died in 1980). Source: Hollywood Community Housing Corporation

In Questionable Move, Affordable Housing Developer Awards Leasing Applications to First 400 Callers

By Sahra Sulaiman | Sep 21, 2018 | 2 Comments

Leasing applications are generally treated with more care than concert tickets that go to the first ten callers that happen to be listening in. Not this time.

Federal approval means that construction can proceed on the third phase extending the Metro Purple Line. Photo: Wikimedia

Metro Receives Key Federal Approval for Westside Purple Line Extension Section 3

By Joe Linton | Sep 20, 2018 | 9 Comments

The federal government finally OK-ed L.A. Metro to proceed with construction of the $1.3B Westside Purple Line extension section 3.

Angela Davis, Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King, Jr., César Chávez, and, somewhat incongruously, Salvador Dalí grace a wall near Manchester and Hoover in South Central, Los Angeles. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

As L.A. Ramps up Efforts to Get People off the Streets, a Young Man Struggles to Stay Housed

By Sahra Sulaiman | Sep 7, 2018 | 2 Comments

Before the connection cuts, I hear the plea underlying the panic that pushed him to this point: "Officer, I don't have nowhere else to go."

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