Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Public Health

Long Beach’s Leap Towards Livabilty IV: Leaping Forward?

By Damien Newton | Aug 22, 2011 | No Comments

You can view the full map at GeoCommons. The above map shows Long Beach broken down geographically by census data and racial diversity. The lighter the dot, the higher the percentage of residents are Caucasian. The Vista Street Bike Boulevard, 3rd and Broadway Segregated Bike Paths and 2nd Street Green Sharrow are in the South […]

By 2015, Nearly One in Five Angelenos Won’t Have Access to Transportation

By Damien Newton | Jun 14, 2011 | 4 Comments

(Tanya Snyder at Capitol Hill Streetsblog covered the report from a national standpoint, her article is here.) It’s the stuff of nightmares. As people grow older, they face the fear that as their body ages, they will have fewer and fewer options to help them get from one place to another. Denied this basic right, […]

All Aboard! Student Art Finds Its Way to TransitTV

By Damien Newton | Jun 8, 2011 | 2 Comments

Have You Noticed How Far You Have To Go To Get To A Supermarket? from anne@freewaves.org on Vimeo. If you’ve ridden a Metro bus in Greater Los Angeles, you’ve seen them. Those weird tv’s which either seem to be stuck at a blasting volume or completely muted, playing a mix of mind numbing trivia, local […]

The Food Desert & The Real Thing

By Joel Epstein | May 12, 2011 | No Comments

What’s a food desert? When I hear the term I think of old Road Runner cartoons or a barren landscape of rocks and sun with a Joshua tree or cactus off in the distance. It’s not the landscape many Angelenos are currently seeing of green hills, lush full trees and wildflowers blooming after a winter […]

Building Coalitions Around Health, Equity and Transportation

By Joe Linton | Apr 28, 2011 | 1 Comment

The California Pan-Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN) convened an informative one-day conference entitled The Road to Health: Improving Community Wellbeing Through Transportation. The Los Angeles convening was one of four in various parts of the state – with San Diego and Oakland events are upcoming on May 4th and 5th, respectively. The local event took place yesterday at the California Endowment’s Center […]

Looking Ahead: Streetsblog Will Examine Impacts of County’s PLACE Grants

By Damien Newton | Apr 20, 2011 | 4 Comments

(Note: this post also appears at Reporting On Health. – DN) In the summer of 2008, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health awarded five Policies for Livable, Active Communities and Environments (PLACE) grants to communities throughout Los Angeles County. The goal of the PLACE Grants is to change the character of the community […]

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