Some light reading for this weekend.
- ‘Safe Streets’ Are Not Safe for Black Lives: A transportation planner warns pedestrian-friendly street redesigns that happen without diverse public input can end up harming the communities they serve. (CityLab)
- Why We Must Talk About Race When We Talk About Bikes: Systemic racism can’t be fixed without tackling it within cycling (Bicycling)
- Metro’s Recovery Task Force releases early recommendations to improve mobility in wake of pandemic (The Source)
- Continuing to Reckon with Culver City’s Racist Past: “Culver City has become much more of an all-inclusive and vibrant place with one of the most diverse school systems in the country. In order to maintain this progressive momentum and take it to a higher level, it is necessary to rupture as fully as possible from the city’s ugly past.” (Streetsblog LA)
- Despite jobs rebound, Fed officials see long road to recovery from pandemic recession: “…officials by and large do not expect the nation to get back to full employment — in which pretty much everyone who wants to work can find a job — until after 2022.” (LA Times)
- Soaring Demand For LA's Public Housing, But Few Openings: “HACLA operates 6,900 units of public housing, home to about 23,000 Angelenos. But demand far outstrips the agency's ability to provide it, and its waitlist numbers 62,000.” (LAist)
- Metro Purple Line Extension Section 1 Difficult Tunneling Resulting In Cost Overrun: “…the project is still anticipated to be substantially complete in 2023, and open to the public in 2024.” (Streetsblog LA)
- Landlord group sues city of L.A. over coronavirus anti-eviction protections: "Southern California’s largest landlord organization has launched a legal action against the city of Los Angeles aimed at stripping away protections from evictions during the novel coronavirus pandemic." (LA Times)
- A Hundred Black Horse Riders Showed up to Support the Compton Cowboys Peace Ride for Black Lives Matter (LA Taco)
- How to shut down urban oil drilling? This city has an unusual idea: "Less than 10% of the Inglewood Oil Field falls within Culver City. But if the city manages to shut down even those few wells — a big if — its efforts could provide an interesting precedent for other urban areas looking to stop fossil fuel extraction." (LA Times)
- Three Suits to the Wind: the start of a deep-dive series into the City Hall corruption scandal (LA Podcast)
- 2020 Greater Los Angeles County Homeless Count Shows 12.7% Increase: up to 66,433 people (LAHSA)
- The LA Times Editorial Board weighs in on defunding the police (LA Times)
