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O Come All Ye Donors…

By Sahra Sulaiman | Dec 16, 2015 | No Comments

You love us. You really, really love us. Or, at least, we like to think you do. How else could Streetsblog Los Angeles founding editor Damien Newton have expanded his west coast publishing empire to cover Long Beach, Santa Monica, San Francisco, the Central Valley, Sacramento, and beyond if you didn’t? Especially at a time […]

Challenge Grant Winners in Boyle Heights and South L.A. Race Against the Clock to Raise Project Funds, Build Networks

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 15, 2015 | 2 Comments

Twenty-three days is not a lot of time to get community buy-in on a complete streets pop-up event/project and raise $10,000 in support of it. Especially in lower-income communities like Boyle Heights and parts of South L.A., where the stakeholders who would ideally be buying into the projects tend to be less familiar with concepts […]

Form (and Speedy Implementation) over Function Yields Semi-Obsolete Street Furniture in Boyle Heights

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 12, 2015 | 10 Comments

When the butterflies, flowers, and decorative benches first started popping up along 1st Street in Boyle Heights last year, reviews were mixed. Okay… That’s not really true — the reviews I heard were largely not that great. Particularly from business owners that had been given some advance notice — but no choice and no recourse […]

At-Grade Crossings along Metro Blue Line Will See $30 Mil in Pedestrian Safety Improvements

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 7, 2015 | 6 Comments

“In the interest of time,” Greg Kildare, Executive Director of Metro’s Enterprise Risk, Safety, and Asset Management team, began his address to the Board on July 23, “I will just say that staff believes that the [Metro Blue Line] pedestrian gating project is an extremely important safety improvement to our oldest rail line and consistent […]

Open-Air Bike Tune-Up Session Brings Community Together in Leimert Park

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 13, 2015 | 2 Comments

“I know you!” I laughed, pointing at soon-to-be 9th grader Cortez Wright. “You were the reason the [King Day] parade got stopped!” Back in January, the young man and three of his friends — all experienced cyclists — had taken the opportunity to join the Black Kids on Bikes‘ (BKoB) parade “float.” It was a pretty […]

Today in Two Steps Backwards: USC Discontinues Rideshare Subsidy Program for 3000+ Employees; Offers Parking Passes as Consolation

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 10, 2015 | 19 Comments

The letter sent to the more than three thousand faculty and staff that participated in USC’s Rideshare Subsidy Program this past June 16th started off happily enough. The USC Rideshare program is growing and continuing to evolve! In 2015, we recorded our highest-ever Air Quality Management District (AQMD) survey result – an AVR (average vehicle […]

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