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.

When Safe Routes to School Is About More than Bike Lanes and Sidewalks

By Damien Newton | Sep 1, 2011 | 6 Comments

What do you do when the main barrier to encouraging more students to walk and bicycle to school isn’t social pressures or broken infrastructure, but a different sort of public safety hazard? What do you do when it’s not motorists, but gangs that imperil children who want to walk or bike to school? If you […]

Crenshaw Update: Ridley-Thomas Pushes Community Benefits, Community Weighs Options for Subway/Leimert Station

By Damien Newton | Jun 30, 2011 | 6 Comments

When Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas’ motions to make the Crenshaw Light Rail project run entirely below-grade and to construct a station at Leimert Park both failed, the Board Member promised he would be back with a new motion to improve the project in a different way. At last week’s Metro Board Meeting, Ridley-Thomas introduced a motion […]

South L.A. Still Fuming Over Metro Leimert Park/Crenshaw Subway Vote

By Damien Newton | Jun 7, 2011 | 12 Comments

Leimert Park from Mark Ridley-Thomas on Vimeo. After the Metro Board of Directors voted for Richard Katz’s “compromise” motion on the Leimert Park Village Station over the proposal by Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, Metro Board Chair Don Knabe commented to the disappointed crowd that remained that they hoped they would see the vote as a step […]

Ridley-Thomas, South L.A. Residents Want Leimert Park Station, But at What Cost?

By Damien Newton | Apr 19, 2011 | 16 Comments

A motion by County Supervisor and Metro Board Member Mark Ridley-Thomas would grade-separate the planned Crenshaw Light Rail Line for twelve blocks from 48th Street to 59th Street along the Crenshaw Corridor and would require the construction of a station at Leimert Park. Both grade-separating the Crenshaw Line and the Leimert Park Station are listed […]

Raise Awareness of the I-710 Widening Near Long Beach, and Do It on a Bike (POSTPONED)

By Damien Newton | Mar 25, 2011 | 1 Comment

(Update 12:34 – Just received word this event was postponed because of the threat of rain. We’ll let you know when it’s rescheduled – DN) As much as I regret that my travel schedule keeps me from the River Ride, tomorrow’s Bike-a-Thon may be the bike ride I’ll most miss this year. The basic idea […]

CRA Unveils Draft Plans for South Figueroa, Public Mostly Positive

By Damien Newton | Feb 9, 2011 | 15 Comments

A standing room only audience descended on the Fashion Institute of Design on South Grand Street to listen to a presentation from the embattled Community Redevelopment Agency for a ground breaking and popular proposal to transform the South Figueroa Corridor. When people discuss Los Angeles’ streets, they usually use terms such as “car-oriented” or “ugly.” […]

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