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As Los Angeles Streetsblog inches towards its second birthday on March 3, we have some pretty ambitious plans to expand and improve our coverage so that we can cover more stories, in a more in-depth way, around Los Angeles City and County.  Currently, we have one staff person in Los Angeles, me, and I’m part-time […]

Aaron Naparstek in his Livable Streets Power Broker pose. This will be difficult news for those of you who are already reeling from Oprah’s retirement, Simon Cowell’s abandonment of "American Idol" and Sewell Chan‘s departure from City Room, but here it is: I am leaving my job as editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. For all of the […]

Photo: Zazzle.com Last summer, Streetsbloggers wrote stirring defenses of the transit-friendliness of their communities for a series aimed at finding the most transit-friendly community in L.A.  I’m hoping to repeat that success with a short series, to run the week between Christmas and New Years, on what you want to see change on Los Angeles’ […]

Taken moments ago in the LA Streetsblog office and guest room. Today is sort of a perfect storm for me.  In addition to the regular writing and baby time, I’m being skyped in to meetings in New York and listening and "Live Tweeting" Metro.  I’ll get Today’s Headlines, syndicated stories, a wrap for yesterday’s bike […]

Today on the Streetsblog Network, member blog UrbanCincy notes with deserved pride that Cincinnati was ranked the seventh-safest large city for pedestrians in the nation in Transportation for America’s "Dangerous by Design" study. But they aren’t resting on their laurels. In today’s post, they call on the city to improve pedestrian infrastructure further with the […]