Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Long Beach

Three Government Committees Reject Current Plans to Widen 710 Between Long Beach and East LA

By Brian Addison | Feb 5, 2013 | 16 Comments

Long Beach City Council I-710 Oversight Committee, Gateway Council of Governments and The Project Committee all reject current environmental documents for 710 widening between Long Beach and East Los Angeles. Following thousands of comments from leaders within community health and environmental coalitions, the State-led project to expand the 710 Freeway from eight lanes to 14 lanes for […]

Will a Smooth Blue Line Ride Finally Come to Long Beach?

By Brian Addison | Feb 1, 2013 | 15 Comments

It is the wrong way to be advertising the use of public transportation–and to experience this egregious advert, one simply has to take the Blue Line through Long Beach. And if you’re lucky, you’ll only hit one or two lights as you watch individual commuters putt-putt past you while the entire Metro trains halts. The […]

Long Beach: Bringing Ghost Bikes to Life

By Brian Addison | Jan 24, 2013 | 4 Comments

2011 marked an extraordinarily hard year for Long Beacher Danny Gamboa: cyclists seemed to be getting killed far too often. In that year alone, Southern California saw a staggering 70% increase in deaths from 2010, with 70 cyclists losing their lives in the seven-county region of SoCal alone in 2011. And in a rather morbid […]

Bike Smut 6: Bike Porn Comes Back to Long Beach

By Brian Addison | Jan 17, 2013 | 4 Comments

Before you, dear reader, make any assumptions, I will be entirely frank: when I say “bike porn,” I am not being metaphorical or symbolic. I truly mean… Well, bike porn. Or as the creators Reverend Phil and Poppy Cox call their annual dive into bike-sexuality: Bike Smut 6, set to screen 13 filmic interpretations of […]

Long Beach: Bridging the Racial Inequalities within Cycling

By Brian Addison | Jan 16, 2013 | 2 Comments

The racial and economic disparities amongst the bicycling communities in Long Beach is not one to be understated. In fact, a friend of mine pointed this out while we were doing the cover photoshoot for the Long Beach Post’s Person of the Year, the Bicyclist: “Wow, this crowd is overwhelmingly… white.” Though disdainful, the lack of racial […]

How a Crop of Women Activists Is Making Long Beach Safer for Bikes, Everyone

By Brian Addison | Jan 7, 2013 | No Comments

We keep getting safer here in Long Beach—and as a rather stereotypical boy whose palate leans towards danger and risk (or what my fair counterparts rightfully call stupidity), this makes me happy. And it was of no shock to me that the first ever all-female class of League Cycling Instructors (LCI) accredited by the League […]

Show More Stories