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Six Months in, Metro/Via Mobility on Demand Pilot is an Expensive Flop

By Joe Linton | Oct 9, 2019 | No Comments

With free rides and $1.75 million Metro subsidy the pilot is serves about a third of the ridership a low-performing bus route. Per ride cost is well over $20.

Caltrans Settles Environment Lawsuit, Cancels High Desert Freeway Project

By Joe Linton | Oct 2, 2019 | 49 Comments

Thanks to a Climate Resolve lawsuit, Caltrans has agreed to halt work on the Metro-funded High Desert Corridor freeway

All images from Metro's Understanding How Women Travel report

New Metro Report: Understanding How Women Travel

By Joe Linton | Sep 27, 2019 | 4 Comments

Metro's new report lays the groundwork for Metro efforts to improve women riders' experience via an upcoming Gender Action Plan.

The intersection at 98th and Vermont where 58-year-old Anna Graves was killed Tuesday night. [Source: Google maps]

Paint Is Not Protection: 58-year-old Woman Killed in Horrific Hit-and-Run at Vermont and 98th

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 23, 2019 | 17 Comments

Paint and signage suggesting a pedestrian can expect a safe crossing where drivers regularly hit well above 40 miles an hour is not just negligence, it's criminal. Especially at night.

Jermaine Welch shows off the shoe he had custom painted in Nipsey Hussle's honor while waiting for Hussle's funeral procession to pass through the intersection at Crenshaw and Slauson on April 11. Hussle was killed in front of his store, The Marathon, on March 31. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Nipsey Hussle Understood Cities Better than You. Why Didn’t You Know Who He Was?

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 15, 2019 | 22 Comments

"I swore to tell the world if I made it out/The truth about these L.A. streets and all what they about"

Big Wonky Good News: L.A. City Adopts People-Centered Transportation Metric: “VMT” In, “LOS” Out

By Joe Linton | Aug 6, 2019 | 10 Comments

VMT puts the E back into CEQA.

The opening of The Marathon, Nipsey Hussle's innovative smart store, in June, 2017, drew people from all over the community. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

City Attorney Keeps up Pressure to Evict Nipsey Hussle’s Legacy from Crenshaw and Slauson

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 4, 2019 | 1 Comment

The effort to push Hussle off the corner of Crenshaw and Slauson is nothing new, but the timing couldn't be worse.

LADOT recently added road diet bike lanes to Hoover Street in South L.A.

Annual LADOT Bikeway Implementation Continues Dismal Trend

By Joe Linton | Jul 9, 2019 | 4 Comments

Though LADOT has done several worthwhile new and upgraded bikeways, overall total mileage is a dismal failure: less than 5 miles of new on-street bikeway in the past year.

South Central Gives Nipsey Hussle the Send-Off of a Lifetime

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 12, 2019 | No Comments

Few communities love harder than South Central.

Beverly Owens Addison holds the photo of her son, Frederick "Woon" Frazier, at a rally last July calling for the prosecution of the woman who left him to die in the street in April of 2018. Charges against driver Mariah Banks were finally filed this week, on April 3. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

A Year after Losing Her Only Son in a Hit-and-Run, a Mother Wonders when Justice Will Be Served

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 6, 2019 | 2 Comments

“I’m about to go out here, I’m bout to ride my bike. I’m bout to have me a good day,” he said, smiling. “I feel good today, Momma. Man, I’m free.”

Monday, February 11, a man was detained and handcuffed by USC's Department of Public Safety for riding on Washington Boulevard without a bike light. According to the officer who conducted the stop, the man requested to be allowed to sit down because he has a bad back. Screen grab from Facebook live video streamed by Estuardo David Mazariegos.

Handcuffing of Cyclist by USC Public Safety Raises Questions about Tactics, Oversight, Accountability

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 1, 2019 | 7 Comments

USC Public Safety Officers cuffed a man riding without a light, questioned him about warrants, and told him LAPD would be asked to come run a warrant check

In January, 2012, community members "cruise[d] Afro-central down the River Crenshaw," as poet Conney Williams' verse reads, to the base of "Elixir." The brief pilgrimage along the corridor from Coliseum to Stocker for the dedication of Patrick Henry Johnson's mural honored the connections between people, place, and the creative process. Williams read his poem, "Elixir," as part of the dedication ceremony. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Destination Crenshaw and the Rise of We-Built-this-Place-Making

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 8, 2019 | No Comments

Destination Crenshaw turns "insult into opportunity” to reclaim space for the celebration of Black life, culture, and contributions via a 1.3-mile-long open-air "People's Museum"

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