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.-ify Your Weekend

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 25, 2012 | No Comments

If you’re looking for things to do this Memorial Day Weekend that do not involve driving, you’re in luck. Critical Minimum: A South L.A. Night Ride Friday night, join the East Side Riders on their Friday Night Ride. It’s fun. Trust me. You want to try it. Read about my experience with the ESR on […]

We Want Dancing Stop Signs: My Daily Moment of Zen

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 22, 2012 | 3 Comments

Last Friday, Safe Moves, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating children on traffic safety, held a Bike-to-School-Day event at New Designs Charter School (at 23rd St. and Figueroa Ave.) to close out Metro’s Bike Week. Students arriving as early as 7:00 A.M. were met by representatives of Safe Moves and Metro, former 2000 Olympic Team […]

Critical Minimum with the East Side Riders: From Watts to Long Beach on a Friday Night

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 21, 2012 | No Comments

“You are friends with them?” It sounded more like a statement of surprise than an actual question. The Japanese tourist couldn’t seem to reconcile that tiny, road-biking me might be hanging out with some burly, tough-looking guys on tricked-out cruisers late on a Friday night in a Long Beach gas-station parking lot. “Yep,” I nodded. […]

Area Cyclist Attempts to Enjoy Metro’s Bike Week, Fails Miserably

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 17, 2012 | 5 Comments

For reasons unbeknownst to me, I had a hard time figuring out what time the South L.A. Bike Week Pit Stops would be up and running today. I took a gander at the pit stop map and promptly devised a route in my head so I could hit all of the South L.A. stops. I […]

Happy Bike Month South L.A.: Trio of New Bike Lanes Appear, More on the Way

By Damien Newton | May 16, 2012 | 11 Comments

South Los Angeles has three new bike lanes. Maybe it’s the celebrations of bike week. Maybe it’s the push to meet the mayoral directive for 40 new miles of bikeway by June 30th 2012. Maybe Mayor Villaraigosa, City Councilmembers Bernard Parks and Joe Buscaino pushed hard enough. Maybe it’s just good livable streets attitudes taking […]

Observations from Yesterday’s Gun Buyback and a Conversation with a Street Vendor of Bikes

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 14, 2012 | No Comments

THIS PAST FINE AND SUNNY Saturday, I headed to South L.A. to see how the Anonymous Gun Buyback was going. In an effort to get firearms off the streets, the city had set up six sites around town where people could drop off their weapons — no questions asked — in return for gift cards. […]

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