710 Project Releases REIR; Proposal Creates Further Ped/Bike Danger for West & North Long Beach
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Widening the southern 710 Freeway is not going to help Long Beach pedestrians and cyclists.
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DTLB Adds Bar & Zip Code Crosswalk to Long Beach’s Collection of Creative Crossings
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There’s been rainbows and piano keys and even tessellation artwork used to designate crosswalks throughout Long Beach. Well, the peeps over at Studio One Eleven have eschewed all of the above, opting for a cleaner, if not more outright wittier interpretation: a bar code that uses the DTLB zip code as its number source. Sitting at […]
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 […]
Long Beach To Put Downtown LB Bike Share Program Out To Bid
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We have been waiting for bike share—for over two years. And it seems, Long Beach, that we are finally in the more tangible stages of receiving it. According to Nathan Baird, Mobility Coordinator for the City of Long Beach, the City will be going out to bid in the next six weeks to pursue a bike share […]
The New(est) Urbanist Mayor of Long Beach
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Disclosure: Mr. Addison is and has been a personal friend of Mr. Garcia for nearly a decade. If there was anything to be said about the election of Long Beach’s next mayor, it was that it showed a city divided—but not in the sense one would think. On the one hand, there was a Long Beach that—at least for […]
Long Beach Named #3 on List of Bike Friendly Cities
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(This story appeared earlier today on Long Beachize. – DN) And at number three we sit. The Alliance for Biking & Walking has named Long Beach the third most bike friendly city in the States, just behind San Francisco and Austin (Tx) . The point of the report is simple: to make sure that data […]