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America’s Sorriest Bus Stop: San Diego vs. Commerce

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 29, 2017 | No Comments

We’re onto the third match in the first round of Streetsblog’s annual sorry bus stop tournament. In the first two contests, Pittsburgh beat Medford, Massachusetts, and Chapel Hill eliminated San Juan to get through to the second round. Today’s face-off pits two bus stops in southern California against each other. Vote for your choice for the worst […]

Rendering of affordable housing project at 1626 Lincoln in Santa Monica

CA Bill Affirming That Cities Can Require Affordable Housing Advances

By Jason Islas | May 5, 2017 | 1 Comment

A bill that reaffirms the ability of local cities to require developers to include affordable rental units in new projects was passed by the State Assembly Thursday with a vote of 47 to 23.

Aaron Flournoy, bike repairman with several decades of service to the community under his belt, stands with his bike on the USC campus. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

USC Poised to Displace Black-Owned Bike Repair Business…For the Second Time

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 1, 2017 | 4 Comments

The relationships Flournoy has with the people he has long served are the kinds of relationships that make communities feel like communities. And those relationships are some of the first casualties as folks begin to lose their footholds in the neighborhoods they have built their lives around.

Goldman Environmental Prize winner Mark! Lopez.

Mark! Lopez Named Winner of the “Green” Nobel – the Goldman Environmental Prize

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 24, 2017 | No Comments

In the immortal words of our former Vice President Joe Biden, “This is a big f*cking deal.”

Tamika Butler, Executive Director of the LACBC, in a photo she shared of herself during her powerful NACTO talk last fall.

LACBC’s Tamika Butler Talks Bikes, Equity, Intersectionality, and Tokenization on Bike Nerds Podcast

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 12, 2017 | No Comments

"Does it feel like you're the...you're the token black woman who's making the circuit in the bicycle and transportation realm to fit...an ideal of inclusiveness and diversity?" It's an awkward question to ask someone directly.

Juan Carlos Mercado and Miguel Sanchez stand in a vacant lot at Manchester and Vermont. The former swap meet site saw a groundbreaking three years ago but the mall project, planned by developer Eli Sasson, never materialized. And the buildings behind the youth - occupied by homeless folks from the area - burned down in February. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

South Central Youth Assess Stasis and Change 25 years after the 1992 Unrest

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 6, 2017 | No Comments

J.C. and Miguel are hoping that before-and-after images of several sites that they've identified will tell us something about stasis and change in the 25 years since the acquittal of four white officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King sent people roiling into the streets back on April 29, 1992.

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