Recent Streetsblog LA posts about equity

The L.A. City Council voted unanimously against adopting Healthy Streets L.A. outright, which sends the measure to the March 2024 election

City Council Declines to Approve Healthy Streets L.A., Pushing It to 2024 Ballot

By Joe Linton | Aug 24, 2022 | No Comments

Many speakers and most councilmembers favored the alternative "Safe Streets" proposal being shepherded by Council President Nury Martinez

Screenshot from yesterday's Gateway Cities Council of Governments 605 TAC meeting

Gateway Cities Freeway Supporters Skeptical of Metro Multimodal and Equity Objectives

By Joe Linton | Jul 27, 2022 | No Comments

Metro's meeting with Gateway Cities engineers was like two sets of people speaking different languages at each other. Metro reps spoke about equity, buses, resilience, climate. TAC members spoke about driving, cars, roads, freeways.

Renderings of the future of the Slauson corridor show shade trees, improved lighting, and safer crossings. Source: Metro

Rail-to-Rail Bike/Walk Path Breaks Ground on Slauson; Officials Speak to Its Significance for Corridor

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 12, 2022 | No Comments

Construction was to have begun in 2018, but the community had been waiting for something to happen there for much longer than that.

A vendor sells salvaged bikes along Manchester Avenue. Under the ordinance proposed by councilmember Joe Buscaino, this kind of activity would be criminalized. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

New L.A. Ordinance Cracking Down on Bicycle “Chop Shops” Ghost of Defunct Mayoral Campaign

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 15, 2022 | No Comments

The ordinance was part of Buscaino's larger effort to position himself as The Only Candidate for Mayor Prepared to Reclaim Streets from Utter Lawlessness.

Mrs. Willa Bruce (left) with her daughter-in-law Meda (center) and her sister - near Bruce's Lodge in Manhattan Beach, ca 1920s . Photo via Living the California Dream by Alison Rose Jefferson, courtesy California African American Museum

L.A. County to Return Bruce’s Beach Property to Rightful Owners

By Joe Linton and Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 9, 2021 | No Comments

"The county isn't gifting anyone anything. The county is returning property that was inappropriately taken. We are returning to the Bruce family... property that they rightfully owned."

County Supervisors Approve Reimagine L.A. Initiative – Second of Three Approvals

By Joe Linton | Jul 28, 2020 | No Comments

Reimagine L.A. would partially defund county law enforcement, shifting funding to services and programs for underserved communities

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