Recent Streetsblog LA posts about People St

Downtown L.A. Celebrates New Parklet On Hope Street

By Joe Linton | Jan 14, 2016 | 4 Comments

People Street meets Hope Street. Just over a hundred people attended the grand opening of Los Angeles’ newest parklet, located on Hope Street just below 11th Street in the downtown L.A. neighborhood of South Park. In case you are not familiar with the term, a parklet is a mini-park that replaces a parking space or […]

Photo Essay: Pacoima’s Opening Celebration For Bradley Plaza

By Joe Linton | Jul 31, 2015 | No Comments

Yesterday, the community of Pacoima celebrated the opening of the city of L.A.’s latest car-free space: Bradley Plaza. The plaza closes to cars one block of Bradley Avenue immediately east of Van Nuys Boulevard in the north San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Pacoima. The plaza is a product of the city Transportation Department’s (LADOT) innovative […]

Cartoon Tuesday: Yo La Tengo Video Showcases Sunset Plaza

By Joe Linton | Jul 14, 2015 | No Comments

For decades Hollywood has exported Southern California car culture images around the world. That’s changing now. Made-in-L.A. commercials, films, and videos now increasingly feature bike lanes, inverted-U bike racks, and, yes, even People St polka-dotted pedestrian plazas. From NPR via Streetfilms‘ Clarence Eckerson, have fun watching Yo La Tengo’s ‘Friday I’m In Love’ video – showing […]

Broadway Dress Rehearsal Project Gets New, More Durable Surface

By Joe Linton | Jul 9, 2015 | 7 Comments

Downtown L.A.’s “Broadway Dress Rehearsal” project entered a new phase last month. SBLA readers will recall that the Broadway project was a relatively quick and low-cost creation of bulb-outs designed to calm traffic. The project removed space from cars, giving it to people dining and traveling on foot on one of L.A.’s highest pedestrian-volume streets. […]

Leimert Park People St Plaza Opens; Stakeholders Debate Building a Cultural Center

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 1, 2015 | 3 Comments

“Don’t tell anybody I’m using these,” Councilmember Herb Wesson said of the blue art scissors he wielded as the moment came to cut the ribbon on Leimert Park Village’s People St Plaza project this past Saturday. The enormous pair of wooden scissors held by Institute for Maximum Human Potential President/CEO Delores Brown — the fiscal sponsor […]

Eyes on the Street: Downtown L.A. Has Three Great Bike Corrals

By Joe Linton | Jun 30, 2015 | 13 Comments

A couple weeks ago, I reported that the great new bike corral on Main Street at 5th was the first in downtown Los Angeles. Commenter Steven White correctly pointed out that there are indeed two other on-street bike corrals in the Downtown Arts District. So although it is the first in the historic core, the Main […]

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