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Livability Advocates Dominate #RoadBond Hearing, Press Ignores
On Wednesday, the City Council Public Works and Gang Reduction Committee ordered city staff to study funding options for a bond proposal to fix city streets.
August 9, 2013
Did City Admit Culpability in Boardwalk Hit and Run by Calling for Traffic Bollards?
For the most part, Council Member Mike Bonin and the City of Los Angeles have received high marks for their response to Saturday evening's vehicular attack on the Venice Boardwalk. However, following Tuesday's vote to install temporary bollards to physically block vehicular access to the Boardwalk, a rumble began that the city may have erred.
August 8, 2013
Getting to Know the New Metro Board Chair, Diane DuBois
The City of Lakewood is one of the more car-dependent cities in Los Angeles. Despite being the size of Santa Monica in population, under 500 people take transit to get to work. Even fewer walk or bicycle. Outside of a Dash Shuttle Van for seniors, Lakewood does not have its own transit system, relying instead on Metro and Long Beach Transit for service.
August 6, 2013
Response to Venice Boardwalk Crash Should Be Model, Not Outlier
Saturday in the late afternoona, Nathan Lewis Campbell got in his car and created carnage on the Venice Boardwalk. The 38-year-old native of Colorado drove on to the boardwalk and swerved through the area injuring dozens and killing Italian Alice Gruppioni, a 32 year old newly waling barefoot on the beach next to her husband. They were on their honeymoon.
August 5, 2013
Public Safety Committee Acknowledges the Hit and Run Crisis, LAPD Not So Much.
In Los Angeles, according to LAPD crime statistics for 2011, 1273 cyclists and pedestrians were victims of hit and run crimes. In other words every single day, 3 or 4 cyclists and pedestrians become hit and run victims within Los Angeles city limits. Of these, 26 people walking or biking died as a result of the collision in which a motorist fled the scene. Another 10 victims were killed while in cars.
August 2, 2013
California Traffic Control Devices Committee Approves New Design for Spring Street Green Buffered Bike Lane
Last week, the California Traffic Control Devices Committee approved the "compromise" design for the Spring Street Green Buffered Bike Lane. The CTCD was the last body that needed to approve the design.
July 30, 2013
Is the City Cutting Corners on Crosswalk and Bike Lane Installation
Late last year, the City of Los Angeles celebrated the installation of its first Continental Crosswalks in Downtown Los Angeles. These striped crosswalks are more visible than traditional crosswalks and the road markings make clear to motorists that they need to stop behind, not inside, a crosswalk.
July 24, 2013
How Flexible Parking Requirements Spur Economic Development: Lessons from Santa Monica
Editor's Note: Streetsblog Los Angeles founding board member Carter Rubin recently finished his Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree at UCLA. In the following article, he recaps the findings from his capstone “client project” for the Urban Design Studio at the L.A. Department of City Planning. His research adviser was the inimitable parking guru, UCLA Urban Planning Professor Donald Shoup. You can read the report in its entirety here.
July 23, 2013
Streetscast: Audio from the Streetsblog Interview with Mike Bonin
At long last, you can listen to (nearly) the entire interview with City Council Transportation Committee Chair Mike Bonin. Sorry it took so long to get together, my attempts to edit out some of the background noise and make Bonin's voice louder than my own took some time. You can read the two stories generated by the interview, "Mike Bonin Focuses on Listening to Build New Transportation Coalition in Los Angeles" and "Bonin Ready to Work on Transportation Problems Throughout L.A.'s Westside."
July 22, 2013