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Garcetti, LADOT and Xerox Announce New GoLA Multi-Modal App
Los Angeles has a new transportation app that helps Angelenos choose ways to get around. The GoLA "Mobility Marketplace" App shows various transportation modes, including bicycling, transit, taxi, ride-hailing, driving, and parking and allows users to compare modes to see what is fastest, cheapest, or greenest. The app is a collaboration between Xerox and the city of Los Angeles, shepherded by the Mayor Eric Garcetti's Chief Innovation Technology Officer, Peter Marx.
January 27, 2016
Eyes on the Street: Parklet Underway on Motor Avenue
Last week, a new parklet opened in downtown L.A.'s South Park. The next People St parklet installation is already underway on Motor Avenue in Palms. The parklet pictured is in front of C&M Cafe at 3272 Motor Avenue, a block south of the Metro Expo Line Phase 2 and the Expo bikeway's Northvale gap. Motor was improved with a road diet and bike lanes in 2012.
January 20, 2016
Open House Showcases Expo Bike Path Gap Closure Options
An overflow crowd of more than one hundred people showed up to last night's Expo Bike Path meeting at the Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library. A representative from Councilmember Paul Koretz welcomed the boisterous crowd before turning the open house over to L.A. City Transportation Department (LADOT) Senior Bicycle Coordinator Michelle Mowery.
January 14, 2016
Downtown L.A. Celebrates New Parklet On Hope Street
People Street meets Hope Street.
January 14, 2016
Closing the Exposition Bikeway Northvale Gap, Meeting Next Week
When Metro's 6.6-mile Expo Line opens in mid-2016, the parallel Expo bikeway will open too.
January 7, 2016
Hit-and-Run Claims Life of Beloved Nun. We Must Do Better, Los Angeles.
On Sunday, Raquel Diaz, a sister with the Los Angeles Archdiocese, succumbed to her injuries. She was seventy years old.
December 23, 2015
Eyes On the Street: Safer Striping At Silver Lake Blvd And Temple St
Kudos to L.A. City Transportation Department's (LADOT) for implementing another small livability and safety improvement. Last weekend, I came across a new striping configuration located at the intersection of Silver Lake Boulevard and Temple Street. These streets cross but do not quite intersect as Temple Street goes above on a 1934 grade-separation bridge, originally intended to reduce congestion on Silver Lake Blvd.
December 7, 2015
Eyes On the Street: Scramble Crosswalks Debut At Hollywood And Highland
It may be one of those made-up statistics, but there is a repeated truism that millions of people visit Hollywood Boulevard every year, and they spend an average of about fifteen minutes there. Sure, there are the Walk of Fame, some beautiful historic theaters and other noble buildings, Metro Red Line subway stops, costumed performers, street musicians... but Hollywood Boulevard is mostly tacky souvenir shops, museums in name only, and sad restaurants one would never return to, all along a massive car-choked stroad.
November 16, 2015
Variable-Priced L.A. Express Park Expands to Westwood
At a press event yesterday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and City Councilmember Paul Koretz celebrated the expansion of L.A. Express Park to Westwood.
November 6, 2015
Parking Reforms Advanced By L.A. City Council Transportation Committee
As expected, a suite of far-ranging parking reforms was heard by the Los Angeles City Council's Transportation Committee yesterday. The committee was broadly receptive to the reforms, directing the city's Transportation Department (LADOT) and other departments to further investigate a number of key reforms. What was perhaps most revealing was individual city councilmember attention to specific parking issues.
October 29, 2015