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Active Streets Participants Explore Vermont Square in South L.A.

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 7, 2014 | No Comments

“This is such a pretty neighborhood!” It was a comment I heard several times over the course of the Active Streets event held at Vermont Square park (48th and Budlong) last weekend. For people unfamiliar with South L.A., the neighborhood appeared to have defied expectations. It certainly defied stereotypes — the winter sky shimmered, the […]

Holiday Food for Thought: A Better Way to Bike Share?

By Sahra Sulaiman | Dec 20, 2013 | No Comments

Gesturing toward the new bicycles that he and Eagle Scout Diego Binatena had just locked up to the rack at one of PATH‘s residential facilities, the LACBC‘s Colin Bogart noted that the bikes represented the ultimate in self-sufficiency. For the recipients of the new bikes they may be that and much, much more. Megan Colvard, […]

Riders Reclaim Central Ave. for Bikes for a Few Happy Hours

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 5, 2013 | No Comments

For much of the time that I lived in Sevilla, Spain, I lived adjacent to the surprisingly still-formidable walls that once surrounded the old city and were constructed (for the second time) in the 11th century. History was everywhere you looked, often making the connection between past and present seamless. Because so many of the […]

By the Numbers: Counting Bikes and Pedestrians in Watts

By Sahra Sulaiman | Sep 11, 2013 | 7 Comments

As the cloud of sarin gas descended on the scene, party-goers once happily doing the Carlton dance were suddenly writhing on the ground in agony. Huh? I rolled over and looked at the clock. It was 4 a.m. Thanks, NPR, for invading my weird retro dream. I rubbed my eyes and stumbled toward my coffee […]

Los Angeles Needs You for Bicycle and Pedestrian Counts

By Damien Newton | Sep 4, 2013 | No Comments

“I never see people ride on the existing bike lane, why should we extend it?” “The census shows that less than 1% of people bicycle, even if a new bike lane doubles the amount of people biking, it’s not worth losing a travel lane/parking lane.” “Nobody walks in my neighborhood.” As advocates, you are likely […]

Livability Advocates Dominate #RoadBond Hearing, Press Ignores

By Damien Newton | Aug 9, 2013 | No Comments

On Wednesday, the City Council Public Works and Gang Reduction Committee ordered city staff to study funding options for a bond proposal to fix city streets. You may remember Council Members Joe Buscaino, who happens to chair the Public Works and Gang Reduction Committee, and Mitch Englander proposed a property tax increase to fund a […]

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