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Looking to hire a smart, qualified person for a position in transportation planning, engineering, IT, or advocacy? Post a listing on the Streetsblog Jobs Board and reach our national audience of dedicated readers. Looking for a job? Here are the current listings: Executive Director, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, San Francisco The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s […]
Judge Backs City of Long Beach in Rail Yard Project Suit; Port of LA & BNSF Sent Back to Drawing Board
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When our former editor Brian Addison first joined the Streetsblog team (parent of Longbeachize), one of his first pieces he wrote openly criticized a rail yard project dubbed the Southern California International Gateway (SCIG) that was to be built in West Long Beach by rail giant BNSF. Not only was the 153-acre project massively detrimental […]
Friday Job Market
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Looking to hire a smart, qualified person for a position in transportation planning, engineering, IT, or advocacy? Post a listing on the Streetsblog Jobs Board and reach our national audience of dedicated readers. Looking for a job? Here are some current listings: Store Manager, PUBLIC Bikes, Santa Monica PUBLIC Bikes seeks a a results-driven, marketing-oriented, […]
Long Beach’s ‘Beach Streets’ Ciclovía Set to Invade DTLB on March 19
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Well, the City of Long Beach will see its second ciclovía on Saturday, March 19—and yes, it will be in Downtown Long Beach for Beach Streets Downtown. We had lamented that Downtown didn’t score a ciclovía last year when Long Beach’s first Beach Streets was held in Bixby Knolls/North Long Beach. Many, particularly our former […]
Streetsblog Jobs Board: Jobs in Beverly Hills, Santa Monica
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Looking to hire a smart, qualified person for a position in transportation planning, engineering, IT, or advocacy? Post a listing on the Streetsblog Jobs Board and reach our national audience of dedicated readers. Looking for a job? Here are the current listings: Transportation Planning Analyst, City of Beverly Hills, CA The transportation planning analyst performs […]
The Week in Livable Streets Events
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People in Westwood are suddenly optimistic that Councilmember Paul Koretz is close to turning around on bicycle lanes on major streets. Momentum is building for bike lanes on Westwood Boulevard just north of National Boulevard. We’ll see. Today – A host of community and national advocacy groups are hosting a conference on shared-use mobility even […]
The Week in Livable Streets Events
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A city-wide hit and run alert system? Awesome. While Sacramento dithers under Brown’s leadership on hit and runs, Los Angeles leads. Good work. Tuesday – Councilmembers Mitchell Englander and Joe Buscaino will join the Los Angeles Police Department, the Department of Transportation to announce the implementation of a hit-and-run mass notification system within the City […]
Vote for Your 2014 Streetsies and Then Donate to Streetsblog!
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Ok, ok…we hear you. You don’t like that we put the Streetsie polls in five different posts. Loud. And. Clear. After the jump, you can find each of our five Streetsies polls. For more people’s choice action, head over to the Streetsblog USA Streetsies. Knock yourself out. But first, a pitch. 2014 was an exciting year […]
Streetsie 2014: Deborah Murphy Award for Excellence in Advocacy
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[poll id=”123″] And we’ve saved the best for last…the hardest Streetsie to narrow down the nominees. The hardest Streetsie to vote. Voting for all categories will close on Friday, January 2, 2015, at noon. Reader voting accounts for one-half of the scoring this year, with one-quarter going to staff voting, and another one-quarter going to […]
Streetsies 2014: Journalist/Writer of the Year
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[poll id=”122″] Welcome to week 2 of our 2014 Streetsie voting! Voting for all categories will close on Friday, January 2, 2015, at noon. Reader voting accounts for one-half of the scoring this year, with one-quarter going to staff voting, and another one-quarter going to a board vote. For each category, we came up with […]
Streetsies 2014: Livable Streets Friendly Businesses
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[poll id=”121″] This year, we’re going to spread out the Streetsie voting over a couple of weeks, with some voting going live ealier, today, and and some next week. Voting will close on Friday, January 2, 2015, at noon. Reader voting accounts for one-half of the scoring this year, with one-quarter going to staff voting, […]
Streetsies 2014: Civil Servant of the Year
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[poll id=”120″] This year, we’re going to spread out the Streetsie voting over a couple of weeks, with some of the voting going live today, tomorrow and next week. Voting will close on Friday, January 2, 2015, at noon. Reader voting accounts for one-half of the scoring this year, with one-quarter going to staff voting, […]