Your account is in line with my perceptions of the RIO. While it’s a good step in the right direction, it doesn’t quite get to some big issues like parking.

There’s one additional point that I would want Streetsblog readers to be aware of – and I think this is an important precedent for transportation planning in Los Angeles. This is more implicit in the plan than explicit, but it has been stated by the LA City Planning Department’s Claire Bowen. The RIO includes pedestrian and bicycle improvements (and green space, water quality, etc.) in the public right-of-way as possible mitigations for development. Currently the process is pretty much that development does a traffic study and widens the road… the hope is that, in the RIO, instead of widening the road, development could pay for streetscape, bike lanes, etc.