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Community Services Unlimited Set to Launch Organic Market in South L.A.

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 27, 2015 | No Comments

When talking with neighbors along south Vermont Ave. a few weeks ago about the potential redevelopment of the lots at Manchester, the amenity residents were most excited about was the arrival of a grocery store. Having something within walking distance was one reason — most of the folks I spoke with struggled with finding transportation […]

Planning and Programming Committee Recommends Metro Board Take Next Steps on Rail-to-River ATC

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 22, 2015 | 26 Comments

On October 23, 2014, the Metro Board of Directors voted to adopt the Rail to River Intermediate Active Transportation Corridor (ATC) Feasibility Study and directed staff to identify funding for full implementation of the project. The Board also authorized $2,850,000 be put towards facilitating the environmental, design, alternative route analysis, and outreach work required for […]

Testing Around Exide Plant Continues, Community Voices Frustration over Lack of Clarity in Results

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 12, 2015 | No Comments

“I still don’t have a clear picture of what the results [of the lead testing in the Expanded Assessment Areas] are,” said a representative of Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard. We were now nearly two hours into a community workshop explicitly intended to brief residents on the extent to which lead emissions from Exide Technologies’ secondary smelting operations […]

At yesterday's groundbreaking at Manchester and Vermont, South L.A. resident Dana Gilbert holds an L.A. Times article from 1992 about the plans to rebuild South L.A. using minority contractors. The article features a photo of himself with then-Mayor Tom Bradley standing in the Manchester/Vermont lot. Gilbert showed up to ask for the jobs he and other residents were promised 23 years ago. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Vermont Entertainment Village Breaks Ground; Residents Ask That Local Hiring Be Cornerstone

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 30, 2015 | 18 Comments

If they weren’t going to let us in, said an elderly woman in Spanish, then why did they send us cards inviting us to the ceremony? She had shown up to the groundbreaking for the Vermont Entertainment Village project at Vermont and Manchester yesterday with her daughters and their young children only to be told […]

Long-Blighted South L.A. Lots to See Groundbreaking on Massive Development Wednesday

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 28, 2015 | 12 Comments

As Baltimore grapples with tamping down the police-community tensions that have been brewing for decades, South Los Angeles may be taking a step forward in mitigating the damage done by the unrest that ravaged much of the area in 1992. Twenty-three years to the day after a not-guilty verdict for four officers videotaped viciously beating […]

Why Is Bus Ridership Slipping in Chicago? It’s the Service, Stupid.

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 10, 2015 | No Comments

New transit ridership figures are making the rounds, and the news out of Chicago is that bus trips declined while rail trips increased. The emerging narrative is that bus ridership in Chicago has been in continuous decline, but that’s not actually the case, writes Daniel Kay Hertz at Network blog City Notes. Instead, he says, service […]

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