Despite winning the Mayor’s race by a comfortable margin, Garcetti lost the black vote 71%-29% to Ms. Greuel. The Mayor-elect’s relationship with the black community will be defined by his Crenshaw-LAX Line decisions, which will be made in the first days of his administration.
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Tomorrow morning the struggle of the Crenshaw Subway Coalition will hit newsstands across the world. In addition to posting the New York Times article in it’s entirety here, our Executive Director Damien Goodmon, provides critical updates about the status of our effort to: a) underground the rail line on Crenshaw Blvd, and b) build a stop at Leimert Park Village.
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By voting No on Measure J, South L.A. citizens can personally protect their economic interests, and collectively send a message to MTA, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the many who are watching that the requests of South L.A. must be respected.
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At Monday night’s standing-room only meeting, we revealed the 3rd component of our strategy: directly engaging the contractors to encourage responsible bids on a Crenshaw-LAX project with the Park Mesa Heights tunnel and Leimert Park station, and requesting an environmental option for the Park Mesa Heights tunnel.
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The Mayor’s betrayal of the Crenshaw community, which has forced us to take legal action is just another in a long unfortunate series of decisions, where the hopes and dreams of a community of color positioned for a revival are being stymied by politicians who benefit more from spending our tax dollars elsewhere, rather than adequately investing in our backyard.
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Crenshaw Subway Coalition files lawsuit against MTA for violations of environmental and civil rights laws to halt construction of one of the 14 national infrastructure projects fast-tracked by the Obama Administration.
More →Changing the Centinela/Florence crossing in the City of Inglewood from street-level to underground fell just one vote short of passage at the Inglewood City Council meeting. Councilmembers Stevens and Dunlap voted “Yes,” while Mayor James Butts, Ralph Franklin and Eloy Morales voted “No.”
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On Sunday, July 24th Crenshaw Subway Coalition chair Damien Goodmon took to the NBC 4 airwaves to talk about the need for a Leimert Park Village station and Park Mesa Heights tunnel. The full video interview is below.
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In Friday’s Los Angeles Times, Hector Tobar, who attended our emergency meeting on Monday, highlights our movement to shift the scales of power and persuade the Metro Board to build the Crenshaw-LAX Line correctly through South L.A.
More →The Front Page Online editor Ari Noonan reports on our emergency meeting held on Monday. Over 50 residents and stakeholders showed up on less than 12 hours email notice!
More →With the steam of disgust from South LA still smoking, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and wanna-be Mayor Zev Yaroslavsky now appear ready to reveal the real reasons for their opposition to the Leimert Park Village subway station and Park Mesa Heights tunnel: they want to spend the money for their pet projects to connect Downtown to the Westside.
More →After the board voted, the community was left with more questions than answers, and they walked away empty-handed, vowing to fight on.
More →The MTA will vote on a motion by Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas to underground the entirety of the Crenshaw Blvd portion of the Crenshaw-LAX Light Rail Line and return the Leimert Park Village station to the project. With 7 votes needed for passage, all eyes are on L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who controls 4 votes on the 13-member MTA Board.
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For the first time in the LA Times coverage of this issue (or the Expo Line issue for that matter) columnist Hector Tobar tackles the systemic inequity in local transportation decision-making, and adds Leimert Park Village deserves a stop on the Crenshaw-LAX Line.
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Our op-ed on the local and regional importance of preserving and enhancing Los Angeles’ last African-American business corridor by placing the rail line underground in Park Mesa Heights was picked up by the LA Wave, Our Weekly and CityWatch LA.
More →Residents & business owners want the rail line built now, but built right.
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