Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Long Beach

The Artful DOGGR: DOGGR Embarks on a Listening Tour, is Told to Take a Fracking Leap

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 14, 2012 | 5 Comments

WHERE THE WORKSHOP ON HYDRAULIC FRACTURING, or “fracking,” drew a record (and raucous) crowd in Culver City Tuesday night, the scene Wednesday night in Long Beach was more subdued. There was a steady stream of speakers ready to voice their concerns about the practice, but there were fewer of them and they were more reserved […]

In Long Beach, City Looks at Removing Terminal Island Freeway

By Damien Newton | Mar 23, 2012 | 2 Comments

On Tuesday night, the City of Long Beach took the first step in what could be a long journey that would end with one of the largest freeway removal projects in Southern California history. The Terminal Island Freeway cuts through west Long Beach and is one of the most under-utilized pieces of publicly owned space […]

Happy Valentine’s Day, Long Beach

By Damien Newton | Feb 14, 2012 | 2 Comments

Just in case you thought we under-did it on the whole “love” theme today (we could have changed the logo to pink for a day), here’s one last Valentine’s Day note. Via our friends at Livable Communities comes a Valentine’s Day love video…to Long Beach. The film was edited by our old friend, Drew Reed. […]

For Long Beach and Los Angeles, What a Difference a Few Years Makes

By Damien Newton | Jan 25, 2012 | 2 Comments

“Los Angeles isn’t Long Beach.” The previous sentence isn’t just completely obvious, for years it was a common excuse as to why Los Angeles wasn’t embracing bicycle and pedestrian friendly projects as quickly as its neighbor to the south. A recent report by the Alliance for Walking and Bicycling shows that as recently as 2009, […]

The View from Long Beach’s New Parklet

By Joe Linton | Jan 24, 2012 | 4 Comments

Last Friday, January 20th 2012, Long Beach opened its, and Southern California’s, very first parklet. It’s located in Long Beach’s Retro Row district, on Fourth Street just east of Cherry, directly across from the Art Theater. It’s right in front of Lola’s Mexican Cuisine at 2030 East Fourth Street, LB 90814 (map.) The way parklets work is […]

Zev Goes to Long Beach and Sees That It Is Good

By Damien Newton | Jan 23, 2012 | No Comments

The efforts that Long Beach has made to become a “bike friendly city” have earned the city praise from sources both near and far. Joining the chorus is Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky who recently completed a bike tour of the city with a film crew from his award winning “Zev Web” news blog. The film features […]

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