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Building Community One Story at a Time

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 1, 2012 | 3 Comments

A South LA Filmmaker Captures the Stories of African-American Cyclists on Film WHAT STAYED WITH HER were the stories, said Yolanda Davis-Overstreet, South LA native and director of “Ride: In Living Color,” a documentary currently being filmed on African-American cyclists. The stories started flowing from the moment she walked into City of Bicycles in Inglewood […]

Streetsblog Reader Interview II: Claire Bowin Talks Parking, Livable Places, Transportation Noise

By Damien Newton | Feb 1, 2012 | No Comments

Yesterday, Streetsblog published the first of a two part interview with L.A. City Planning Department’s Claire Bowin. Bowin has had her finger in a lot of pots in her tenure with Planning, working on the Bike Plan, the Mobility Element, the Housing Plan, the Cornfield Arroyo-Seco Plan, and Bike Plan Implementation. As you’ll see below, […]

Next Streetsblog Reader Interview: City Planning’s Claire Bowin

By Damien Newton | Jan 9, 2012 | No Comments

Last year, Streetsblog’s “reader interview” series was a shashing success. The series led to some fantastic interactions between Streetsblog readers and some of L.A.’s most important decision makers and top advocates. The first volunteer for our 2012 series is Claire Bowin, a senior planner with Los Angeles’ Planning Department. You know how this works by […]

Streetsblog Interview : Howard Krepack

By Damien Newton | Jan 7, 2011 | 1 Comment

Howard Krepack is a pretty good lawyer. In over three decades of legal work, he’s racked up quite a record inside and outside of the courtroom as a personal injury lawyer regularly winning recognition as one of the Top Lawyers in America and a Super Lawyer. In short, he’s someone you would want on your […]

Streetsblog Interview Series: Aktive

By Damien Newton | Nov 24, 2010 | 2 Comments

I can’t remember the first time I met Aktive, but it seems that every time I’m in the Northeast L.A. “Bike District” I run into him. Going to an event at the Bike Oven? There’s Aktive. Getting the baby bike together at Flying Pigeon? There’s Aktive. June fundraiser? Aktive. In a lot of ways, the […]

Streetsblog Interview: Ayla Stern

By Damien Newton | Nov 18, 2010 | 4 Comments

Bicycle Advisory Committee Member. Bike Working Group volunteer. Midnight Rida. Co-Founder of the Valley Bikery. When it comes to advocacy Ayla Stern does it all. Recently, she’s been one of the leaders of the battle to preserve the Wilbur Avenue Road Diet and Bike Lane re-striping that has won praise from cyclists and residents but […]

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