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LADOT: Of Course We’re Going to Patch the Spring Street Green Lane
One week ago, LADOT and city politicians opened the Spring Street Green Buffered Bike Lane to a flock of media and the appreciative roar of the L.A.'s cycling community. One week later, cheers have turned to grumbling as the green paint has dissolved in areas, gotten blotchy in others and basially looks like Long Beach's Green Sharrowed Lane after a year of wear and tear from cars and bikes.
November 28, 2011
LADOT Reveals Designs for Spring Street Buffered Bike Lane
Via the LADOT Bike Blog comes a first look at the Spring Street Buffered Bike Lanes planned for Downtown Los Angeles. Having spent some time this weekend on the "bike paths" on 3rd and Broadway in Downtown Long Beach this weekend, I can't tell you what a difference a buffer makes.
November 16, 2011
Art Walk Safety About More Than Food Trucks and Closed Streets
Last month, tragedy struck during the monthly Art Walk in Downtown Los Angeles when a dangerous driver jumped a curb, crashed into a parking meter and killed a seven week old infant. The tragedy shocked not just the Downtown and Art Walk communities, but the entire city. Advocates pointed out that when you have a situation where vehicular traffic is mixed with thirty thousand pedestrians in such a short space as the core of Art Walk, between 3rd and 7th on Spring Street.
August 10, 2011
L.A. Moves Closer to Bringing Streetcars Back. You Can Help Tomorrow Night
Tomorrow night, the L.A. Streetcar team and Metro will hold a public meeting to discuss what options will be studied for a new streetcar system for Downtown Los Angeles. There are seven options on the table, all of them serve a different need, and all of them will bring something new, or rather something old, back to the Downtown.
August 1, 2011
In Wake of Infant Death, Are Changes Coming to Art Walk?
At last week's Art Walk, the monthly event where downtown art galleries open their doors to the public for free, thousands of people gathered to walk through the Downtown. The event is changing the way people view Downtown Los Angeles, but last week, tragedy struck.
July 19, 2011
Note to City Council: Don’t Forget the Transportation Plan for the Stadium
By this point, its becoming clear that for City Officials, the transportation planning for the AEG stadium is a secondary issue for the politicians who will approve a deal with AEG, possibly within the next 45 days. While the Council is debating and discussing a lot of complicated issues, it's taking its eyes off the ball when it comes to transportation planning.
June 20, 2011
LAT: AEG Lobbying for Exemptions from Environmental Lawsuits
While the rest of the local media was busy going ga-ga over the press conference announcing that, if constructed, the Downtown NFL Stadium would be named after Farmers Bank, Patrick McGreevey and Jessica Harrison at the Los Angeles Times revealed that the developer's for the Downtown Stadium are lobbying for the same exemption from state environmental lawsuits that rival developer Ed Roski earned for his proposed Stadium in the City of Industry.
February 2, 2011
Will Figueroa Street Be Los Angeles’ First Truly Complete Street?
I have to be honest. If the My Figueroa project ends up fulfilling its mission of designing a people-friendly Figueroa Street from the southwest corner of Exposition Park to Downtown Los Angeles only by adding a couple of trees and repainting the crosswalks, I'll be extremely disappointed.
January 25, 2011
L.A. Live, Pinnacle of Modern Design, or Bad Urbanism?
How do Los Angeles' residents want their city, and neighborhoods, to develop? Are big projects that raise a lot of money for developers and provide entertainment and dining for thousands of people better than smaller developments that better serve the communities in which they are placed?
December 1, 2010