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Epstein Extra: Metro is for All Angelenos!
In a cover story I penned for this week Jewish Journal entitled, “All Aboard the Case for an All-Pervasive Metro,” I argue that mass transit in LA has finally arrived at the door of the Jewish...
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The Food Desert & The Real Thing
What’s a food desert? When I hear the term I think of old Road Runner cartoons or a barren landscape of rocks and sun with a Joshua tree or cactus off in the distance. It’s not the landscape many...
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Shilling for the Soda Industry
You get what you pay for. Or at least that is what the soda industry thought when it hired a University of Alabama “scientist” to do its bidding, questioning the incontrovertible link between soda and...
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A Food Desert By Any Other Name
What is the real story behind food deserts? New research from the Public Policy Institute of California comes to the same conclusion that researchers from the California Center for Public Health...
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Los Angeles and the Case for Transit-Oriented Development (Part 1 of 3)
This is the first in a three-part series on Transit Oriented Development and Los Angeles. Today’s piece is an introduction and a look at Metro’s role. Tomorrow looks at the history of TOD on the Red...
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Los Angeles and the Case for Transit Oriented Development: TOD Since the Red...
The W Hotel and Condos off the Red Line's Hollywood stop is considered by many, including promotional materials, as the "crown jewel" of Metro's TOD program. Photo:Eric Oginski/Flickr Caption: Damien...
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Los Angeles and the Case for Transit Oriented Development: Building and...
Culver City has earned grants and accolades for its TOD plans. Image:Behance.net This is the third part of a three part series on Transit Oriented Development written by Joel Epstein. Part I ran on...
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Measure J and the future of [transit in] L.A.
(This is the third of four op/eds on Measure J that Streetsblog will publish this week. Monday, Gloria Ohland of Move L.A. made the case for Measure J, yesterday the BRU made their case for a no vote....
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(Note: To help Streetsblog readers decide how best to cast their vote in the election, we asked two regular writers not on staff to write their recommendations in the election. Today, current Board...
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Not Your Parents’ LADOT
LADOT General Manager Seleta Reyolds. Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A. One of the nice things about shopping for food and eating in France is that the quality is assured by rigorous government...
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A Review of Streetfight by Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow
Janette Sadik-Khan’s new book Streetfight comes out next Tuesday March 8. Sadik-Khan will be in L.A. speaking and signing books on March 16 at the Hammer Museum and March 17 at Gensler in downtown Los...
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