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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
So I Went to a Bike Master Plan Meeting…
…and a Pico/Olympic meeting broke out . Frustrated with what they see as a limited public process, cyclists showed up by the dozens last night to discuss what should be in the next Bike Master Plan (BMP) for the city and vent about current conditions and the attitudes of city staff toward cyclists. Many cyclists in the … Continued
February 21, 2008
Cyclists Unhappy with LADOT’s Public Process
A growing chorus is building in the cycling/activist community that the LADOT's public outreach for its Bike Master Plan is insufficient, and perhaps the harbringer of a bad plan. Stephen Box, of the Bike Writer's Collective, Illuminate LA, and Soapbox LA wrote an article today for LAist comparing LADOT's outreach plans with those in Portland and Long Beach:
February 20, 2008
Countdown to Bike Master Plan: Five Days, Five Stories
Earlier today, London Mayor Ken Livingston released what is probably the world's first billion dollar bike plan.
February 11, 2008
Times’ Reports on LADOT’s Car Culture Catastrophe at LACMA
It’s not often I’m singing the praises of the LA Times, but an article from today’s paper, A lack of street smarts near LACMA,” really hits one of the main problems with LADOT’s traffic management plans right in the head. The Times reports: As part of the expansion, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, … Continued
February 4, 2008