Recent Streetsblog LA posts about LADOT

Garcetti, LADOT and Xerox Announce New GoLA Multi-Modal App

By Joe Linton | Jan 27, 2016 | 10 Comments

Los Angeles has a new transportation app that helps Angelenos choose ways to get around. The GoLA “Mobility Marketplace” App shows various transportation modes, including bicycling, transit, taxi, ride-hailing, driving, and parking and allows users to compare modes to see what is fastest, cheapest, or greenest. The app is a collaboration between Xerox and the city […]

Eyes on the Street: Parklet Underway on Motor Avenue

By Joe Linton | Jan 20, 2016 | No Comments

Last week, a new parklet opened in downtown L.A.’s South Park. The next People St parklet installation is already underway on Motor Avenue in Palms. The parklet pictured is in front of C&M Cafe at 3272 Motor Avenue, a block south of the Metro Expo Line Phase 2 and the Expo bikeway’s Northvale gap. Motor was improved […]

Open House Showcases Expo Bike Path Gap Closure Options

By Joe Linton | Jan 14, 2016 | 13 Comments

An overflow crowd of more than one hundred people showed up to last night’s Expo Bike Path meeting at the Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library. A representative from Councilmember Paul Koretz welcomed the boisterous crowd before turning the open house over to L.A. City Transportation Department (LADOT) Senior Bicycle Coordinator Michelle Mowery. The crowd appeared to be about […]

Downtown L.A. Celebrates New Parklet On Hope Street

By Joe Linton | Jan 14, 2016 | 4 Comments

People Street meets Hope Street. Just over a hundred people attended the grand opening of Los Angeles’ newest parklet, located on Hope Street just below 11th Street in the downtown L.A. neighborhood of South Park. In case you are not familiar with the term, a parklet is a mini-park that replaces a parking space or […]

Closing the Exposition Bikeway Northvale Gap, Meeting Next Week

By Joe Linton | Jan 7, 2016 | 9 Comments

When Metro’s 6.6-mile Expo Line opens in mid-2016, the parallel Expo bikeway will open too. Except where it won’t. Two stretches of Expo bike path under construction are nearing completion. Unfortunately there is a 0.7-mile gap between them. Next week the city of L.A. will host a meeting to receive input on plans to close the gap, […]

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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