Year: 2012
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San Diego Residents Most Likely to Bike Have Fewer Bike Lanes
Randy Van Vleck, the active transportation manager for for the City Heights Community Development Corporation, talks with Media Arts Center Teen Producers about the need for safe streets in City Heights. By Manny Jimenez, Oscar Perez, Trevor Seines, Beckett Browning, Eliana Weinthal, John Fields, Alex Angleman and Tia Hill The City Heights Community Development Corporation…
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Tweet City Heights: City Responds to Fatal Accident With Improved Bike Lane
By Megan Burks City Responds to Fatal Accident With Improved Bike Lane A neon-green bike lane went in on Montezuma Road this month in response to a fatal bike accident in April, KPBS reported. Charles Raymond Gilbreth died after being struck by a car on the fast-moving thoroughfare near San Diego State University. The new…
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Tough Choices: Rich and Poor San Diegans Take Stock of the American Dream
By Tom Fudge How do you decide what to do with your money when you have very little? In collaboration with KPBS and Speak City Heights, Marketplace Money’s Wealth and Poverty Desk looks at the tough choices faced by families living in poverty. Listen to the report here. There’s more than one house on the gated property of…
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Parking Lot Turns Into Park for a Day
City Heights joined communities throughout the world for the annual Park(ing) Day. Participants transform parking lots into community parks for the day to demonstrate the benefits of having more open space in urban neighborhoods. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Brian Myers Haga clic aquí para leer en español City…
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Skatepark: Necessity or Disturbance?
For Marcos Olascoaga, the push for a Mid-City skatepark is personal. He was hit by a car while skating two years ago. Above, Olascoaga explains how the incident motivated his work with the Mid-City Skatepark Advocacy Group. By Manny Jimenez, Oscar Perez, Trevor Seines, Beckett Browning, Eliana Weinthal, John Fields, Alex Angleman and Tia Hill…