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People St Plans Plazas and Parklets for the Fall, Next Project Round Could Be Pushed to 2015
Yesterday, the People St program unveiled its project list for 2014 at the City Council Transportation Committee. People St is the new program by LADOT that encourages communities to plan and pay for their own parklets, plazas, and bike corrals. LADOT will help with the permitting and final planning for the projects. The project list included three plazas and four parklets spread out throughout the city.
June 26, 2014
Council Transportation Committee Gives Enthusiastic Thumbs Up to Seleta Reynolds
When I covered the Transportation Committee Hearing for Rita Robinson to take the helm at LADOT in 2008, there were 10 people in the room who were not City Council staff, Council members, or Robinson herself.
June 25, 2014
Some Los Angeles Road Diet Projects Can Add More On-Street Parking
Most of the city of Los Angeles' bike lane mileage has been implemented without removing any car lanes or any parking spaces. The city Transportation Department (LADOT) merely narrows existing overly-wide lanes, and adds bike lanes. In recent years, the city of Los Angeles has also done a number of bike lane projects called "road diets." These road diets do remove a travel lane.
June 24, 2014
Speaking With Seleta Reynolds, Garcetti’s New LADOT GM Nominee
Earlier today, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti nominated Seleta Reynolds to be the new general manager for LADOT. Streetsblog announced the nomination earlier today via this brief article, which includes the mayor's press release.
June 20, 2014
Mayor Garcetti Nominates New LADOT Head: Seleta Reynolds
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has nominated Seleta Reynolds to be the new general manager for the city's Transportation Department (LADOT.) From preliminary research on Reynolds's background, this looks like great news. Reynolds currently works for San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) where her focus had been livable streets, with a focus on building more equitable streets.
June 20, 2014
North Figueroa Bike Lanes: Public Safety Reps Against Public Safety Project
At last week's North Figueroa Street bike lane meeting there was a contentious debate. Cyclists are urging installation of road diet bike lanes to improve safety for all. Bike lanes were approved in the city's 2010 Bike Plan; L.A.'s Transportation Department (LADOT) studied the lanes extensively, and appeared to be on the verge of installing them. Then a new L.A. City Councilmember was elected.
May 16, 2014
L.A. Councilmember O’Farrell Opens New Sunset Plaza Bike Repair Stand
This morning, Los Angeles City Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell opened a new public bike repair stand. The repair stand is located at the Sunset Triangle Park Plaza.
April 28, 2014
News Bites from BikeLA Webinar: Gap, Parking, Cycle Tracks, Metrolink
Last night, the city of Los Angeles Departments of Transportation (LADOT) and City Planning (DCP) hosted a webinar to introduce L.A. cyclists to what are called the "second year study corridors" for the L.A. City Bicycle Plan. The webinar included a presentation and a question and answer session. The unscripted Q&A yielded a handful of newsworthy tidbits. SBLA will report these newsbites first, then, next week, review bike plan implementation, including the "first year" and "second year" batches.
April 18, 2014
Eyes On The Street: Broadway’s Got New Bulb-Outs
Crews are out this week doing striping and new crosswalks for a project called Broadway's Dress Rehearsal. Broadway is, arguably, Los Angeles' most heavily pedestrian street. The current project reallocates former car-lane space to make way for pedestrians. It's no secret that the transformation here is inspired by NYC's relatively-inexpensive street plazas, including Times Square.
April 17, 2014
Pop-Up Plaza Enhances Art Walk, Hints at What Could Be in Leimert
As we watched the group led by female elders drumming their way toward us, Rashida, a vendor of wonderful-smelling body scrubs, leaned over and said, "You can't get this anywhere else in L.A.!"
April 1, 2014