Metro Asks South L.A. Stakeholders: How Would You Use Rail-to-River Path?
"They've started work on that bike path!" a South Central bike shop owner announced excitedly after noticing mounds of dirt piled up in the rail right-of-way (ROW) at Slauson and Normandie.
October 26, 2016
Justice-Oriented Mobility Advocates to “Untokenize” Active Transportation Movement
The Token One
He was so glad I had "talked about people of color committing violence against other people of color," he gushed, shaking my hand.
September 20, 2016
L.A. Metro Explores Alternative Rail-to-River Routes Through Southeast Cities
In thinking about the potential routes the eastern segment (B) of the Rail-to-River (R2R) active transportation corridor might take, stressed Mark Lopez of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, it was important that the needs of workers, youth, and community members of the Southeast Cities be put front and center. Connectivity to job centers and schools should therefore be the first priority.
August 31, 2016
In L.A., Eastside Sol Engages Community on Clean Energy, Transportation
In lower-income communities - particularly those where rentership is very high - people often have very little access to clean energy or clean technology alternatives.
August 23, 2016
Bike Talk: What Bike Advocacy Needs to Understand about South Central
"What is the situation in South L.A.?" is the question Colin Bogart, Education Director at the L.A. County Bicycle Coalition, posed to launch our discussion of the removal of a 7.2 mile bike lane planned for Central Avenue from the Mobility Plan 2035.
July 18, 2016
Filed Under: “Do You Need a Patch?”
Six months ago he had been hit by a car on Rodeo Road, the young man told me. He was laid up for seventeen days. Now he had a metal rod in his back.
July 5, 2016
L.A. Planning Commiss Strips Central, Westwood Bike Lanes from Mobility Plan
Listening to the City Planning Commission vote in favor - albeit somewhat reluctantly - of moving forward on the regressive amendments to the Mobility Plan 2035 this morning, I felt my heart sink.
June 24, 2016
Environmental Review Process Begins Around Contaminated Exide Site
This coming Saturday, June 25, and next Thursday, June 30, the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) will hold scoping meetings to gather community input regarding the extent to which the clean-up of lead-contaminated properties located within a 1.7-mile radius of shuttered lead-acid battery smelter Exide could affect surrounding neighborhoods. Community comments, the DTSC Notice … Continued
June 23, 2016
Jobs or Housing? Historic South Central Residents Decry Feeling Asked to Choose by Billion Dollar Reef Project
THE NUMBER ONE THING that representatives from the "creative habitat" known as the Reef felt they had learned from engaging the community, the speaker told the more than 600 town hall attendees this past May 5, was that Historic South Central was "lacking a sense of place."
June 15, 2016