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Apr 27 2021 5:36 pm
  • Safe Streets

Long Beach looking at lane reductions to calm dangerous segment of Spring Street

Jason Ruiz

The city is currently doing outreach on a project that could reduce the stretch of Spring Street between Studebaker Road and Coyote Creek east of the 605 Freeway overpass from six lanes of traffic to just four.

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Oct 14 2018 2:00 pm
  • Safe Streets

In high-crime Washington neighborhood, efforts grow to make streets safer

Kelly Puente

Bordered by Pacific Coast Highway, Anaheim Street, Long Beach Boulevard and the Los Angeles River, Washington spans just a half a square mile, but last year it logged 206 violent crimes, accounting for 10 percent of all violent crime in the city.

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Oct 13 2018 6:00 am
  • Safe Streets

Shoe donations for children are no small feat for this nonprofit

Melissa Evans

The Long Beach Post, as part of its Safe Streets series, is helping raise money and shoe donations for His Little Feet, which has so far provided more than 14,200 pairs of shoes to local kids.

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Oct 6 2018 6:01 am
  • Safe Streets

Long Beach’s yellow school buses have become dinosaurs in the modern age

Tim Grobaty

School busing peaked in the Long Beach Unified School District in the late part of the last century for a variety of reasons. The fact that baby boomers were in their schooling years was a main cause for the busing boom.

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Oct 6 2018 6:00 am
  • Safe Streets

Why more Long Beach students are cramming onto transit buses

Jason Ruiz

Long Beach Transit estimates that about 5,000 riders per day board buses from the 80 stops in the vicinity of the 10 Long Beach high schools.

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Sep 30 2018 4:00 pm
  • Safe Streets

A block from a university or a block from a freeway: location dictates safe streets in Long Beach

Stephanie Rivera

Over the years, Long Beach has been praised for its walkability and its bike-friendliness, but data shows the streets that are most safe for pedestrians and bicyclists are in the wealthier parts of the city.

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Sep 16 2018 12:00 pm
  • Safe Streets

Walking to school—why most kids aren’t doing it these days

Tim Grobaty

By the 2000s, estimates of younger children walking or bicycling to school was less than 14 percent. In the same time period, the use of passenger vehicles for the trip to and from school has increased from 12 percent in 1969 to 50 percent in the 2000s.

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