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CD5 Candidate Jesse Creed Calls for Safety Improvements for Westwood Blvd.

10:47 AM PST on January 11, 2017

Candidate Jesse Creed is calling for safety features, including bike lanes, on Westwood Boulevard. Image via Facebook Live

This morning L.A. City Council candidate Jesse Creed hosted a press conference to call for safety improvements on Westwood Boulevard. Creed is running for the Westside's Council District Five.

Creed declared that, due to more than 300 injury collisions over the past five years, Westwood Boulevard is “virtually a deathtrap.” According to Creed, despite Westwood being among the 15 mayoral Great Streets Initiative sites for the past two years, "virtually nothing" has changed. Due to high rates of collisions and death, Westwood Blvd. is part of the city's Vision Zero High Injury Network, streets that experience more than their share of deadly crashes. Creed stressed that his priority is to "make Westwood Boulevard safe for everyone" and pledged that "one of his first actions as councilmember" will be to commission a safety study for Westwood.

Creed was joined by Westwood residents, academics, and business leaders, all of whom called for greater safety features, including bike lanes, on Westwood Boulevard. Residents and business leaders criticized a lack of representation. UCLA professor Michael Jerrett, a bicycle commuter himself, criticized bike lane opponents as "putting peoples' lives at risk." Many speakers emphasized connections between UCLA, which is implementing a bike-share system this year, and Metro rail stations, including the existing Expo Line station and the future Purple Line subway station.

Creed is drawing a clear distinction between his platform and the record of Fifth District incumbent Councilmember Paul Koretz. Koretz quashed an earlier study of designated bike lanes for Westwood Boulevard, and further undermined the city's Mobility Plan by yanking Westwood from the city's Bicycle Enhanced Network.

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