Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Mobility Plan 2014

Bike Talk: What Bike Advocacy Needs to Understand about South Central

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 18, 2016 | 24 Comments

“What is the situation in South L.A.?” is the question Colin Bogart, Education Director at the L.A. County Bicycle Coalition, posed to launch our discussion of the removal of a 7.2 mile bike lane planned for Central Avenue from the Mobility Plan 2035. Both Malcolm Harris, Director of Programs and Organizing from TRUST South L.A., and […]

Amendments to Remove Central, Westwood Bike Lanes from Mobility Plan, Add Substitutes Move Through Planning Commission

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 23, 2016 | 23 Comments

Listening to the City Planning Commission vote in favor – albeit somewhat reluctantly – of moving forward on the regressive amendments to the Mobility Plan 2035 this morning, I felt my heart sink. With recommendations the City Council approve amendments that a) remove Westwood Boulevard (between LeConte and Ohio) and approximately seven miles of Central […]

Koretz Motion Pushes Mobility Plan Mods To Planning Commission

By Joe Linton | May 11, 2016 | 3 Comments

L.A. City’s Mobility Plan 2035 suffered a potential setback at today’s meeting of the Los Angeles City Council Transportation Committee. Today’s action likely sends the plan back to the Planning Commission for further decisions. Mobility Plan 2035 was approved by the City Council in August 2015, then challenged in court. Due to the legal case, the plan […]

Central Ave and Westwood Blvd Bike Lanes Preserved in Mobility Plan

By Joe Linton | Feb 12, 2016 | 7 Comments

At its meeting yesterday, the Los Angeles City Planning Commission unanimously re-affirmed keeping bikeway designations for Central Avenue and Westwood Boulevard. Unfortunately these facilities are likely to remain in the plan, but not move closer to on-the-ground improvements due to anti-safety positions staked out by City Councilmembers Curren Price and Paul Koretz. Price and Koretz […]

No Más Deaths!: Stakeholders Demand Curren Price Support a Bike Lane for Central Avenue ahead of Mobility Plan Hearing

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 10, 2016 | 96 Comments

“Bottom line is, citizens want to be involved, they want to be engaged in the process of figuring out how we reprogram our streets, how we reprogram our communities, making it more livable, making it more desirable, making it safer.” So said councilmember for the 9th District, Curren Price, when interviewed by KCET’s Nic Cha […]

Hit-and-Run Claims Life of Beloved Nun. We Must Do Better, Los Angeles.

By Sahra Sulaiman | Dec 23, 2015 | 7 Comments

On Sunday, Raquel Diaz, a sister with the Los Angeles Archdiocese, succumbed to her injuries. She was seventy years old. The beloved Boyle Heights nun was crossing Evergreen Avenue at Winter Street at 5:20 p.m. on December 13 when she was run down by a driver in a white, four-door Nissan or Toyota. The loss […]

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