Los Angeles' Metro and Accessibility

Los Angeles is one of the largest cities in the United States of America also making it very busy. With a population of approximately 4 million human beings, transportation plays an important role in the city. There are many different types of transportation in Los Angeles such as public buses, cars, taxis, and even the use of bicycles. One of the longest-running forms of transportation is the railroad which is still being used today, but rather faintly. The railroad has many notable disadvantages

near a freeway, railroad tracks, and a host of other "urban eyesores" has been a fact of life for as long as they and in many cases, their entire families can remember. In today's world, this type of living has been part of city life not only in Los Angeles County but in crowded cities in the U.S. and around the world. For decades, city dwellers have done everything they can to move out to the suburbs or find a place to call home as far as possible from these areas as possible. However, this is beginning

neighboring communities. As it currently stands, the two streets closest to the jail site (N Ave 19 and Humboldt St) have dedicated bicycle lanes, although they lack connectivity to any other bicycle lanes in adjacent neighborhoods. Nonetheless, the Los Angeles Mobility Plan 2035, which includes the 2010 Bicycle Plan, proposes a series of bicycle lanes that will connect the site to the rest of the city in the span of twenty years (LADCP, 2014a). Therefore, while accessing the site via

coverage, availability and the technologies used. The Ethiopian transportation system uses some of the United State transportation systems and technologies. However, the U.S. and Ethiopia transportation systems have very huge differences in terms of accessibility, technology, coverage, type and cost. The transportation system purpose in both the U.S. and Ethiopia is the same, to provide fast, economical, safe, affordable and environmental sound

Where most other areas of Long Beach are near freeways, North Long Beach has access to three freeways, the Los Angeles riverbed, Long Beach Transit, MTAs bus lines, and the Metro blue (Long Beach-Downtown Los Angeles) rail line. Since North Long Beach is more spacious than the more concentrated area of downtown, it makes it a hotbed for homeless encampment sites. The homeless accessibility to modes of transportation help them function in their everyday life. As CSULB, professor Christine Jocoy notes

Watkins, the founder of the Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC). WLCAC is an influencing non-profit community based organization which serves to provide affordable housing, jobs, and social services to the residents of Watts and South Los Angeles, as well as fight poverty and ultimately, increasing the quality of life of the neighborhood. It was organized following the 1965 Watts riots with the support of several labor unions and funded by grants from the government at varies levels. The

¬¬Portland, Oregon, a city known for its abundance of unique neighborhoods, lively downtown and natural beauty, experienced major transformations during the past fifty years due to an influx of population growth that led the city to go from a modest 370,000 people to over 500,000 people today. Portland was forced to make some key urban planning decisions to accommodate its growing population, which ultimately forced expansion of its network of public transportation systems. The city’s actions toward

I. Introduction The job of a social worker is not confined to one geographical area. As a social worker, one could possibly visit several different neighborhoods in a single week. Because of the vast variety of clients that a social worker may encounter, cultural competency and sensitivity is an important concept in this field of work. According to Garthwait (2016), a social worker “must be capable of recognizing, respecting, and accommodating differences while treating all clients with fairness

Mass Transit: The Future of American Travel In today's day and age, an increasing urgency must be put on the issue of transportation and its relation to society. Man owes it to himself to address the issue of transportation with practicality and, as one of the biggest polluters, ultimate discretion. One of the most practical and responsible forms of transportation available today is mass transit. However, a problem is present in American society in that mass transit is not as plentiful as

When people think pollution, most think straight to automobiles producing harmful emissions which contribute to global warming or climate change. Well, this is true. Motor vehicles account for about half of the toxic air pollutant emissions in the United States. A large part of these toxic air pollutants is the need to rely on oil as a fuel source. The fact that oil is still the main source of energy for things like automobiles, when there are other alternatives like electric vehicles, creates many