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Garcetti’s LAPD Protest Statements Wildly Miss the Mark
Garcetti offers platitudes and magical thinking as protestors scream to defund the police
June 1, 2020
Friday L.A. Round-Up: Traffic Deaths Spike, COVID-19 Slow Streets, and 7th Street Lanes
New protected bike lanes on the way downtown, first COVID slow streets on the Westside, and LAPD reports a surge in speeding and traffic fatalities.
May 15, 2020
Some Progress on Curbing Speeding L.A. Drivers, Much Reform Still Needed
L.A. can now issue speeding tickets all over, compared to 19% of streets in 2016. State speed limit law reforms are also on the way.
February 7, 2020
Deadly Father’s Day Hit-and-Run Suspect Caught after Fleeing to Mexico
This morning the LAPD announced details on the capture of hit-and-run suspect Maritza Lara, who allegedly, driving under the influence, killed Francisco Hernández Rivas.
August 27, 2019
Nipsey Hussle Understood Cities Better than You. Why Didn’t You Know Who He Was?
"I swore to tell the world if I made it out/The truth about these L.A. streets and all what they about"
August 15, 2019
South Central Gives Nipsey Hussle the Send-Off of a Lifetime
Few communities love harder than South Central.
April 12, 2019
Traffic Safety Deniers Cynically Attack Venice Blvd Safety Improvements for Crash on Centinela Nearby
Two drivers struck and killed Felipe Nunez-Garcia on Centinela, then Westside trolls called for removing safety improvements elsewhere.
January 2, 2019
L.A. Times Calls California Speed Trap Law “Absurd” and Urges Reform
California's archaic state speed law "is an absurd way to govern a public space."
July 24, 2018
“I Can’t Go Everywhere that I Thought I Could Go”: When Black and Brown Cyclists Need Safety from More than Traffic
"I knew where I was," muses Slimm, the 25-year-old road captain from the Los Ryderz Bike Club regarding his fateful decision to roll past 65th on Broadway - the heart of East Coast Crips territory, "but I was just riding by..."
May 1, 2018
How Can Vision Zero Work When L.A. Continues to Prioritize Speed?
Rather than raise speed limits, let’s lower design speeds, so the mistakes are less impactful when they inevitably happen
March 6, 2018
