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New ROUGH ROAD sign on Griffith Park Blvd. Photos by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

Eyes on the Street: Griffith Park Boulevard’s New ‘Rough Road’ Signage

By Joe Linton | Aug 24, 2018 | 1 Comment

L.A. has added new 'rough road' signs to Griffith Park Blvd, where several bike-fall lawsuits resulted in the City Attorney recommending the removal of bike lanes.

Griffith Park Boulevard's cracked concrete bike lane. Photo via Friends of Thomas Star King Middle School

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L.A. City Attorney Recommends Removing Griffith Park Boulevard Bike Lanes

By Joe Linton | Aug 14, 2018 | 10 Comments

Bike crash lawsuits due to bad pavement conditions? The bike lanes must be the problem, no?

LADOT Announces “Year Three” Bike Lane Projects To Study and Ignore

By Joe Linton | Apr 1, 2015 | 4 Comments

Los Angeles City Transportation Department (LADOT) engineer Leffel O’Serviss announced that his department has selected 40 new miles of approved bike lane streets that will be part of the department’s “Year Three” bikeway projects. O’Serviss announced that, following on LADOT’s Year One and Year Two projects, these forty miles will be studied vigorously and will […]

New Report Tells CA How to Get More Bang for its Transportation Bucks

By Melanie Curry | Feb 19, 2015 | 3 Comments

A new report [PDF] offers suggestions for ways that California could better spend the roughly $28 billion it invests in transportation every year, both to be more cost-effective and to better align with the state’s environmental goals. Authored by researchers at the Climate Change and Business Research Initiative, a partnership between the law schools at […]

The Los Angeles Times Wonders What Can Be Done About Freeway Pollution

By Damien Newton | Sep 3, 2013 | 5 Comments

The Los Angeles Times published a remarkable editorial today questioning why so little is done about the public health crisis caused by Southern California’s reliance on freeway travel. However, either because of confusion or lack of will, the editorial stops short of proposing any real solutions to the crisis. It merely note it exists. The first […]

Takin’ It to the Streets: Protestors Gather Over Road Conditions on Venice Blvd.

By Damien Newton | May 1, 2013 | 2 Comments

I was just 100 yards into CicLAvia to the Sea, when I heard the loud “pop.” It wasn’t just a broken tube, but my entire rear tire looked as though it were chewed up by some sort of monster hiding in the asphalt. Venice Boulevard struck again. Thanks to Dan Rodman and the wizards at […]

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