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A Bus Rider’s Frustration With Transit Planners

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 27, 2013 | No Comments

Nick Magrino at Streets.mn describes what it’s like to ride the bus in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area: Multiple transfers to get to a destination, waiting environments that seem to be designed to repel people — it can feel like a series of small humiliations. The people doing transit planning where he lives aren’t paying attention […]

The Glendale-Hyperion Bridge Project, Musings on Bridges as Destinations, and High Hopes for the New Citizen Advisory Committee

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 26, 2013 | 7 Comments

I am sometimes puzzled by how disconnected an infrastructure plan can be from what is good for a community. Take the plans in the works to widen travel lanes to freeway standards along the Glendale-Hyperion bridge as part of the seismic retrofit it is about to undergo. In a video celebrating the upcoming project, Councilmember […]

The Dept. of Parks and Rec Wants Your Input on What Parks Should Be

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 22, 2013 | 9 Comments

I’ve been watching the makeover that the Julian C. Dixon/48th St. Park on Hoover and 48th has been undergoing for the past couple of months with some interest. The small playground, cracked-up basketball court, and small (but well-used) fitness zone sat like disparate islands floating along the edges of a sea of poorly kept grass […]

USC Reneges on Some Commitments to Street Improvements Along Jefferson; Neighbors are Concerned

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 21, 2013 | 4 Comments

“USC is prepared to enhance this public benefits package to include extending the boundaries of the graffiti abatement program to Western Ave., extending the bicycle lane on Jefferson to Western, [and] extending the proposed streetscape improvements and street trees to Western Ave.,” said Dale Goldsmith, Land Use Counsel for USC in testimony before the Planning […]

Learn About “Hotel Mariachi” at a Book Signing at the Mariachi Festival This Weekend

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 19, 2013 | No Comments

If you’ve been to Mariachi Plaza, then you’ve seen the beautiful Boyle Hotel, or Hotel Mariachi, as it is known to many, that sits on the corner of 1st and Boyle. It was built in 1889 by a Croatian immigrant named George Gerscovich (who changed his name to Cummings) who came to California during the […]

What’s Next? A Re-Boot of Long Beachize

By Damien Newton | Nov 18, 2013 | 2 Comments

For just over a year, the Southern California Streets Initiative, the co-publisher of Streetsblog Los Angeles and publisher of Santa Monica Next, has teased that a “Streetsblog Long Beach” is just around the corner. After forming a local advisory Board, and publishing news/opinion pieces by the Long Beach Post‘s Brian Addison, we’re proud to make […]

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