Seleta Reynolds

As part of Vision Zero, LADOT installed three pedestrian scrambles along MacArthur Park's Alvarado Street: at 7th Street, Wilshire Boulevard and 6th Street

Metro Bike Share celebrated 165 bikes at 15 stations to serve the Venice community

This morning, Los Angeles City Councilmember Nury Martinez opened the city of Los Angeles' first four-way-stop scramble crossing intersection. L.A.'s first non-signalized stop-sign-controlled scramble is located at the intersection of Sylvan Street and Sylmar Avenue in the community of Van Nuys. SBLA readers may already be aware that L.A. has other diagonal scramble crosswalks at signalized intersections in Hollywood, and along USC and UCLA.

Garcetti has proposed $16.7 million for Vision Zero, livability advocates are urging $80 million for the program.

In September, I had the pleasure of bicycling around Los Angeles with Guardian journalist Nick Van Mead. The reporter was on a tour of three of the United States' car capitals - Detroit, Houston, and Los Angeles - to understand how car-centric places are moving into a healthier, more multi-modal future.

Downtown L.A. now has protected bike lanes! Woooot! Wooooot!

It may be one of those made-up statistics, but there is a repeated truism that millions of people visit Hollywood Boulevard every year, and they spend an average of about fifteen minutes there. Sure, there are the Walk of Fame, some beautiful historic theaters and other noble buildings, Metro Red Line subway stops, costumed performers, street musicians... but Hollywood Boulevard is mostly tacky souvenir shops, museums in name only, and sad restaurants one would never return to, all along a massive car-choked stroad.

Last night, the city of Los Angeles welcomed national safe streets advocate Leah Shahum at a forum discussing what Vision Zero will mean for Los Angeles.

Today, #DamienTalks with Seleta Reynolds, the General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation about the City of Los Angeles' recent announcement that L.A. will be a Vision Zero City.