Metro Bike Share Opens In Venice, Santa Monica
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Metro Bike Share celebrated 165 bikes at 15 stations to serve the Venice community
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Councilmember Martinez Opens L.A.’s First 4-Way-Stop Scramble Crossing
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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 […]
L.A. City Transportation Budget Hearing Highlights Vision Zero Debate
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Garcetti has proposed $16.7 million for Vision Zero, livability advocates are urging $80 million for the program.
SBLA Editor Joe Linton Featured in Guardian UK Tour of US Car Capitals
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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. Today, Van Mead’s article America’s road […]
Downtown L.A. Celebrates New Protected Bike Lanes On Los Angeles Street
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Downtown L.A. now has protected bike lanes! Woooot! Wooooot! Not just a block-long tunnel, but full-on grown-up Euro-style protected bike lanes. The newly opened half-mile-long Los Angeles Street protected bike lanes feature bicycle signals, floating bus stop islands, neon-green merge zones and two-phase left turn markings, not to mention freshly resurfaced pavement. All just in time […]
Eyes On the Street: Scramble Crosswalks Debut At Hollywood And Highland
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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 […]