There's a new DIY (do-it-yourself) group adding missing safety features to L.A. streets. The Crosswalk Collective L.A. added four new crosswalks at the East Hollywood intersection of Romaine Street and Serrano Avenue. They announced the new facility via Twitter last week.
The city doesn't keep us safe, so we keep us safe.
— Crosswalk Collective LA (@CrosswalksLA) March 23, 2022
Streetsblog reached out to the Collective and they responded with a press statement:
We are a small group of community members who have tried for years to request crosswalks and other safe streets infrastructure the official way. At every turn, we’ve been met with delays, excuses, and inaction from our city government, as well as active hostility to safe streets projects from sitting councilmembers. Car crashes are the number one cause of death of children in Los Angeles. If our city won’t keep us safe, we will keep us safe.
The Crosswalk Collective folks have done quite a good job, in that their "professional grade stencil" design really does look like a city standard crosswalk.
New DIY crosswalks at Romaine and Serrano in East Hollywood
Could you tell this crosswalk apart from one installed by the city?
The Collective has tweeted that they will soon be sharing their how-to guide so other neighborhoods can do similar improvements.
L.A. County needs to embrace physically-protected bikeways, robust traffic calming around schools, and similarly transformative, safety-focused projects