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For almost two years, the controversy surrounding the redesign of the Hyperion Bridge has been a leading story at Streetsblog. However, with the battle over the future road design of the bridge being decided by lawyers and judges rather than planners and politicians, the story has moved from the public spotlight to inaccessible private meeting rooms.

In a unanimous 11-0 vote, the Los Angeles City Council approved the city Bureau of Engineering's (BOE) single-sidewalk pedestrian-killer design for the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge. Though the item was not approved at the Public Works Committee last week, the City Council approved the item today with no public comment, after brief misleading characterizations by Councilmembers Tom LaBonge and Mitch O'Farrell.

The city of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering's (BOE) sidewalk-deficient Glendale-Hyperion Bridge design was heard today in the L.A. City Council's Public Works Committee. As at the earlier Public Works Board hearing, the BOE trotted out dire Level of Service predictions and threats that the city would lose $50 million if the project is delayed. Councilmember Tom LaBonge and Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell's staff spoke in favor of BOE's unsafe design, and against a road diet option that BOE's earlier traffic predictions had shown was feasible.

In a hearing at City Hall this morning, the mayor-appointed Board of Public Works unanimously approved proceeding with the city Bureau of Engineering's (BOE) recommendation to eliminate one of two sidewalks on its Glendale-Hyperion Bridge retrofit project. The latest version, announced earlier this week, has not changed significantly since 2013 when BOE pushed a similar unsafe design, leading to a backlash, and the formation of an advisory committee to re-think the dangerous design.

Last night, the Citizens Advisory Committee for the design of the new Glendale-Hyperion Bridge met to discuss the city's latest proposal.

There has been quite a bit of proverbial water under the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge. Under a great deal of community displeasure in 2013, the city of Los Angeles set aside an outdated bridge retrofit plan and formed an advisory committee to decide the future of the historic span.

As the saga of the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge retrofit project continues, it becomes clearer that, even under the city's car traffic growth assumptions, it will be viable to add bike lanes to the new project and to keep two sidewalks.

It's an encouraging sign that Streetsblog readers have come to expect high quality coverage of Livable Streets issues in the region's flagship paper. Today's piece in the Los Angeles Times by Laura Nelson on the Hyperion and Glendale Bridge seismic retrofit and redesigns has a couple of news bits that you won't find in Streetsblog's exhaustive coverage of the issue.

I am sometimes puzzled by how disconnected an infrastructure plan can be from what is good for a community.