Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Los Angeles

What’s in a Neighborhood

By Matthew Roth | Apr 6, 2009 | 10 Comments

A Sunday Stroll on International Boulevard, Flickr photo by madpai How would you define the boundaries of your neighborhood? Is it the streets that describe it? Is it the people who live in it, a cultural or demographic group that you belong to, or that excludes you? Do you think your neighbors would describe your […]

Streetfilms: L.A.’s Orange Line Bus Rapid Transit (plus bike path!)

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Mar 23, 2009 | 18 Comments

Who would have thought that one of the best Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems in the U.S. would be in its most crowded, congested, sprawling city? Well check this out. It’s really fabulous. In October 2005, the Los Angeles County Metro Authority (or Metro) debuted a new 14-mile BRT system in the San Fernando Valley […]

State Senator Takes on Parking Requirements

By Damien Newton | Mar 3, 2009 | 3 Comments

Last week, State Senator Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) introduced legislation that takes aim at how California’s municipalities think about parking and parking requirements. What SB 518 (PDF) is missing in co-sponsors it makes up for in chutzpah. If enacted, the legislation would require that every municipality in the state earn at least "20 points" in […]

Good Roads?

By Chris Carlsson | Feb 12, 2009 | 1 Comment

I just finished an interesting journey that took me to the World Social Forum at the mouth of the Amazon River system in Belem, Brazil, and then to Los Angeles and finally home, just in time to attend a presentation last night at CounterPULSE of Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes III. The show consists of rare […]

More Park(ing) Day: San Fran Rolls Out the Parkcycle

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 27, 2007 | 15 Comments

I was pretty sure that New York City had San Francisco beat for this year’s Park(ing) Day, what, with the children’s reading hour and the on-street gymnasium in Brooklyn; Staten Island and Queens getting in on the act; and German tourists frolicking on the sod in front of the MoMA (all captured by StreetFilms, […]

Transit-Oriented America, Part 5: Wrap-Up

By Aaron Donovan | Aug 24, 2007 | 1 Comment

Thanks all for reading and commenting on our non-motorized honeymoon travel series (see parts 1, 2, 3 and 4). Below is a table Susan put together to briefly summarize some of our observations on the cities we visited. Transit Bike Accesibity Amtrak Station Street life and art Chicago Loop El made all connections we […]

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