Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Department of D.I.Y.

Eyes On the Street: Dept Of DIY Intersection Cameras

By Joe Linton | Oct 30, 2015 | 7 Comments

SBLA wasn’t planning to reveal the location of the Department of Do-It-Yourself’s latest street improvements: intersection surveilance cameras. But The Eastsider already broke the news that they are at the intersection of Reservoir Street and Coronado Street in Silver Lake, and that the city Transportation Department (LADOT) already has plans to remove them. As readers […]

Eyes on the Street: DIY Maintenance On Lincoln Blvd Under Culver Bridge

By Joe Linton | Jan 13, 2015 | 7 Comments

Editor’s note: The Department of Do-It-Yourself works in strange and mysterious ways. Today we run a guest post by cyclist Eric Weinstein who may or may not have been part of Dept. of DIY’s westside cycling division’s Lincoln Boulevard sand removal effort last week. You’ll probably never notice. Last Friday night a very small crew […]

Filed Under: D’oh! City Stamps Out Safety-Enhancing DIY Effort in Silver Lake, Leaves Massive Gang Signs in Place in South Central

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 3, 2014 | 8 Comments

Last month, I sent a photo illustrating some of the new designs that had popped up at Effie and Hyperion in Silver Lake (above) to Joe and Damien. Joe, without disclosing the location, posted it to Streetsblog with a brief accompanying explanation. As he noted, the intersection has seen various DIY interventions. The painting of […]

Eyes on the Street: DIY Painting Between the Cracks in Silver Lake

By Joe Linton | Oct 13, 2014 | 12 Comments

L.A.’s Department of Do-It-Yourself has been busy piloting some non-Highway-Design-Manual-approved pavement treatments at an undisclosed intersection somewhere in Silver Lake. We’re not going to name the streets for fear that it would make it marginally easier for official city forces to overlay their gray-heavy official design motifs there. Streetsblog Communities Editor Sahra Sulaiman reports: “By […]

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DIY Urbanism: No Permits, No Red Tape, No Going Back

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 15, 2012 | No Comments

You have dreamed about striping your own bike lane on your most-traveled routes. You got your street closed off for a block party. Maybe you even spent the afternoon feeding the meter on Park(ing) Day. You just may be the next tactical urbanist to join the ranks of those who make it their business to […]

The Bicycle Kitchen Wants to Buy a New Building. Here’s How You Can Help

By Joe Linton | Apr 26, 2012 | No Comments

(Help the Bicycle Kitchen reach their fundraising goal to buy their own space. You can donate on-line or you can pay to attend their celebratory square dance this Saturday night April 28th 2012.) 2005 was a big year for bicycling in Los Angeles. The monthly second-Friday Midnight Ridazz went from a few dozen cyclists to more than a […]

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