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Community and Cyclists Clash on Ballona Creek Trail Gate
Photo of Entrance by Will Campbell
April 4, 2008
Rosendahl To Hold Meeting on Ballona Creek Entrance Closure
For those of you following the controversy surrounding the potential closure of the Ballona Creek Bike path along Culver Drive between Purdue Avenue and Sawtelle Boulevard, alert Streetsblog commenter Greg passes along the following message from the Councilman's office:
April 1, 2008
LAPD Ticketing Pedestrians Near Metro Center
Back in February, Curbed reported that police in Koreatown were ticketing pedestrians crossing the intersection of Wilshire and Vermont if they crossed after the signal starting flashing orange. Tickets, which were given to pedestrians even if they made it safely across the street before the flashing signal became a solid one, ranged between $200 and $300.
March 31, 2008
LADOT Questions Metro’s Bus Cuts
Last month, the Metro Board passed a resolution requiring staff to prepare a memo outlining total service cuts from 2007 and expected cuts for 2008 and 2009. Board Members wanted to put the proposed bus service changes for this June into a larger context to better understand the impact on local economies and Metro's ridership.
March 20, 2008
City Weighs Closure of One Ballona Creek Bike Path Entrance
Sepulveda Blvd. Over Ballona Creek Bike Trail
March 19, 2008
Congestion Pricing to LAX Not Dead Yet
Roads to and from LAX on Thanksgiving Eve, 2005
February 27, 2008
Redefining a 180
In yesterday's Times, Steve Hymon discusses the changing attitude at LADOT about how best to move people throughout the city. The headline, "L.A. officials do a 180 in traffic planning" suggests that we were about to read some radical stuff. Maybe he was going to discuss Gordon Price's argument that LA needs to be more like Vancouver and plan on how to design the roads to best move people, not cars . Maybe he was going to discuss charging people to use our highways through a toll or HOT Lane system and redirect that money towards transit. Instead, this is what we was meant by a "180 in traffic planning":
February 26, 2008