Longtime MASS-transit and pedestrian advocate Diego Cardoso is in charge of building the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s light rail into Boyle Heights and beyond, intended to revivify the Eastside neighborhood sliced and diced by four freeways in the name of urban renewal during the last half of the 20th century. As former chair of the city’s Housing Commission, he jump-started Boyle Heights’ revival by re-imagining the downbeat, gangbanging Pico-Aliso public-housing project as the upbeat, mixed-income neighborhood-on-transit called Pueblo del Sol. And now, as one of the city’s new planning commissioners, he stands at the very crossroads of transportation investment, housing policy and land use — the place where decisions about city-building are made, and a vantage from which he may really be able to reconnect L.A.’s... More >>>