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When a Progressive Community Fails to See Its Own Biases, Bullying and Bigotry Get a Pass
So I resorted to the sincere query that I’ve made to him on several occasions, namely: Help me understand why consideration of the needs of the most vulnerable among us - particularly lower-income black and brown communities - is so offensive to you?
May 8, 2017
Vision Zero Painted Curb Extensions Come to Koreatown’s 3rd Street
As part of the city's Vision Programs, LADOT added painted curb extensions to Third Street between Vermont and Normandie Avenues.
May 3, 2017
USC Poised to Displace Black-Owned Bike Repair Business…For the Second Time
The relationships Flournoy has with the people he has long served are the kinds of relationships that make communities feel like communities. And those relationships are some of the first casualties as folks begin to lose their footholds in the neighborhoods they have built their lives around.
May 1, 2017
Offensive Bray-Ali Comments Lead To Rescinded Endorsements, Calls To Quit Race
It has been a stormy week for bicycling activist and city council candidate Joe Bray-Ali, and for tensions among L.A.'s cycling communities.
April 28, 2017
April Metro Board Wrap-Up: Full Speed Ahead on Purple Line Subway
Yesterday, the Metro board approved numerous items, including advancing Measure R funding to get the Purple Line Subway to Westwood completed ahead of schedule.
April 28, 2017
Her Work Done on Crenshaw’s Underground Railroad, Harriet the Tunnel Boring Machine Retires
Metro celebrated the retirement of Harriet the Tunnel Boring Machine, which built two mile-long tunnels below Crenshaw Boulevard. Metro's Crenshaw/LAX light rail line is expected to open in Fall 2019.
April 21, 2017
Metro Eastside Gold Line Alignments Finalized Before Environmental Studies
Yesterday, Metro's Planning and Programming Committee approved final project definitions for a future Eastside Gold Line extension. If approved by the full board next week, the project moves forward into procuring a consultant to do environmental clearance studies.
April 20, 2017
LACBC’s Tamika Butler Talks Bikes, Equity, Intersectionality, and Tokenization on Bike Nerds Podcast
"Does it feel like you're the...you're the token black woman who's making the circuit in the bicycle and transportation realm to fit...an ideal of inclusiveness and diversity?"
It's an awkward question to ask someone directly.
April 12, 2017
South Central Youth Assess Stasis and Change 25 years after the 1992 Unrest
J.C. and Miguel are hoping that before-and-after images of several sites that they've identified will tell us something about stasis and change in the 25 years since the acquittal of four white officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King sent people roiling into the streets back on April 29, 1992.
April 6, 2017
Leimert Park Envisions Infusing Culture into Autonomous Micro Shuttles
Autonomous vehicles and other emerging technologies are just one more landscape into which community stories can and should be woven. And rather than wait to have to adapt their complex realities to technology that was not made for them or with their needs in mind, artist Ben Caldwell tells me, there is a unique opportunity for communities of color to leave a significant mark.
April 4, 2017
