LADOT and Film Industry Agree to Compromise on Green Bike Lanes
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LADOT and film industry representatives have agreed on terms for the next batch of green bike lanes in the city of L.A.
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New Urbanism Film Fest Preview: American Makeover
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L.A.’s New Urbanism Film Festival kicks off tomorrow with an opening reception starting at 7 pm at the ACME Theater in Hollywood. From Thursday through Sunday, #NUFF2014 attendees will enjoy feature-length films and shorts on architecture, urban farming, bicycling, street art, and more. The list of programs are at the NUFF website; select “buy tickets” […]
Eyes on the Street: Goodbye Green
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At the request of the City Council, the city was hard at work last night making Spring Street in Downtown Los Angeles a less safe and attractive place to be by removing the green paint in the city’s first green buffered bike lane. The buffered bike lane will remain, with the city testing a new, […]
Eyes on the Street: Guess Who’s Blocking the Bike Lane?
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Our friend Colin Bogart sent along this note to us and representatives of Film L.A. about his bike commute to work yesterday. Attached are photos from a film location I passed this morning at Sunset Blvd. and N. Reno Street. The bike lane is blocked on both sides of Sunset, with none of the minimum […]
Conjecture Versus Statistics: Spring Street Letters Show Differences in Style
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that delays in politics rarely offer good news for those with facts on their side. This is especially true when the political powers that be suddenly develop a case of collective laryngitis. Which is why the news that the Los Angeles City Council hearing and vote on the future […]
Showdown or Compromise? All’s Quiet in Advance of Tomorrow’s Hearing on the Spring Street Green Bike Lane
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(An earlier version of this story featured a picture we believed showed an image from a film shot in New York that had a green bike lane removed. The location did not include a bike lane, we fell for a twitter joke. Sorry. – DN) For awhile, it seemed as though everyone had something to […]