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Your Q and A with Jon Kirk Mukri
You asked, he answered. Moments after going on hiatus for the holidays, I received an email from the Los Angeles Department of Transportation with answers from the "Reader Q and A" with interim LADOT General Manager Jon Kirk Mukri.
January 2, 2014
A Look at Parklets from the L.A. Forum: L.A. Interrupted
(The following article appeared in the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design Fall 2013 Newsletter, available here. For information on how to join the forum, click here. In addition to other benefits, members receive a paper copy of the newsletter in the mail. - DN)
December 19, 2013
Wendy in a Wheelchair: Awakening to the State of LA’s Sidewalks
Wendy, my girlfriend, is a skilled rock climber with eight years experience. Unfortunately, sometimes rocks just break.
December 18, 2013
We Can Tell You How to Get, How to Get to People St
"Thank you for liberating our streets," City Council Transportation Committee Chair Mike Bonin greeted LADOT staff last week. While LADOT staff may not be used to a hero's welcome, Assistant General Manager Dan Mitchell and Assistant Pedestrian Coordinator Valerie Watson weren't there to present a typical transportation project, or even to talk about why some five-lane street in The Valley needs to have its speed limit increased.
December 11, 2013
Getting Closer and Closer to Broadway’s Dress Rehearsal.
This summer, the city and the "Bringing Back Broadway" coalition announced an exciting program to recreate the physical layout of the historic theatre district on Broadway between 1st and 11th Streets. Phase I, or the appropriately named "dress rehearsal" involved the creation of semi-permanent infrastructure to create plazas, barrier planters, and other traffic calming and pedestrian enhancement obligations.
December 10, 2013
Eyes on the Street…L.A.’s First Protected Bike Lane
Last night, Los Angeles got its first protected bike lane last night when a series of plastic dividers went up in the Second Street Tunnel between Figueroa and Hill Street.
December 6, 2013
Jon Kirk Mukri Chats with City Council on LADOT Staff and Multi-Modalism
On his third day in the office, Interim LADOT General Manager Jon Kirk Mukri appeared in front of the City Council Transportation Committee to discuss the future of the Department.
December 5, 2013
The Next Reader Q and A: Jon Kirk Mukri
It's been awhile since we've published a reader question and answer article. With the arrival of Interim General Manager Jon Kirk Mukri to the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, now seemed a great time to bring back this old series. You pick the questions, we'll submit them to Mukri through the LADOT press office.
December 2, 2013
LADOT Announces TAP Card Design Contest
When Metro released special TAP cards for the opening of the Expo Line, I was intrigued. Why, I wondered, doesn't Metro do more interesting things with TAP design all of the time? Why the insistence on selling these boring blue cards?
November 14, 2013
Riders Reclaim Central Ave. for Bikes for a Few Happy Hours
For much of the time that I lived in Sevilla, Spain, I lived adjacent to the surprisingly still-formidable walls that once surrounded the old city and were constructed (for the second time) in the 11th century.
November 5, 2013