Recent Streetsblog LA posts about South LA

In an effort to show how transportation, open space, planning and other issues impact the health and character of a community, Streetsblog and The California Endowment teamed to bring Streetsblog’s coverage to a hyper-local level in Boyle Heights and South Los Angeles. Sahra Sulaiman is the Communities Editor for Streetsblog Los Angeles and is leading our coverage efforts in these communities. This page serves as a place to read Sahra’s and all of Streetsblog’s coverage of issues in South L.A. Contact Sahra at sahra[at]streetsblog.org or on twitter: @sahrasulaiman.

South L.A. Needs YOU to Speak Up at Regional Budget Day on Saturday, March 16.

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 13, 2013 | 10 Comments

“This chart sums up why South LA consistently gets left behind when funds are divided,” reads the post on the Empowerment Congress West Area Neighborhood Development Council’s facebook page (referring to the image above). The chart describes the distribution of the responses received as of February 13 of this year to the Mayor’s annual Budget Survey. […]

South L.A. Happenings: Anti-Fracking Concerts, Farmers’ Markets, Sports Fairs and Runs, Bike Rides for Justice, and Detoxes

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 8, 2013 | 1 Comment

TONIGHT Sitting in a room full of California journalists and their editors last week as part of my training for a journalism fellowship, I was incredibly surprised to learn that few of them knew that fracking was going on in L.A.’s back yard. The lack of awareness has been of great concern to many of […]

Do You Know Where to Find Healthy Food in South L.A.? RideSouthLA and CSU Take Riders on a Different Kind of Food Tour

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 4, 2013 | No Comments

“They’ve been receiving it pretty decently, I must say,” Karen Whitman, the “Mama” of Mama’s Chicken, told the riders with the Healthy Food tour regarding her customers’ response to the fresh produce she recently began offering at her shop. “The more people that know about it, the more that’s coming in.” Located at the corner […]

New Bike Lanes on Vermont: One Small Step Forward Where Three or Four Big Steps Are Needed

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 1, 2013 | 13 Comments

As a cyclist, I do my best to avoid Vermont Ave. like the plague. It’s always busy, it’s an important bus corridor, and much of it is in lousy, bone-rattling condition, especially in South L.A. Moreover, there are few spots where you feel like you have a comfortable cushion between you and drivers in a […]

Little Green Spaces Have Big Impacts in South L.A.

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 22, 2013 | 3 Comments

The little boy tearing through the hallway at the All Peoples Community Center pulled up abruptly when he spotted Crystal Gonzalez, the Peace Education Coordinator with American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). “When are we going to do the garden class?” he asked excitedly, jumping up and down. “I want to do the worms again!!” Gonzalez […]

Metro Diary: Three Trains, a Tourist, Some Eager-Beaver Sheriffs, and a Former Foster Child…All in the Space of an Hour

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 20, 2013 | 14 Comments

Whenever I travel in and out of LAX, I do my best to Metro my way there. It requires a forty-minute walk, three trains, and an airport shuttle ride for me to go one way. But, it’s cheap and, remarkably, it all goes down in less than two hours. And, it is never dull. For […]

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