Recent Streetsblog LA posts about LADOT

Eyes On the Street: Safer Striping At Silver Lake Blvd And Temple St

By Joe Linton | Dec 7, 2015 | 14 Comments

Kudos to L.A. City Transportation Department’s (LADOT) for implementing another small livability and safety improvement. Last weekend, I came across a new striping configuration located at the intersection of Silver Lake Boulevard and Temple Street. These streets cross but do not quite intersect as Temple Street goes above on a 1934 grade-separation bridge, originally intended to […]

Eyes On the Street: Scramble Crosswalks Debut At Hollywood And Highland

By Joe Linton | Nov 16, 2015 | 17 Comments

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 […]

Variable-Priced L.A. Express Park Expands to Westwood

By Joe Linton | Nov 6, 2015 | No Comments

At a press event yesterday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and City Councilmember Paul Koretz celebrated the expansion of L.A. Express Park to Westwood. Westwood has long had a reputation for being a difficult area to park. Express Park should, over time, make finding a parking space there easier. This is good for number of […]

Parking Reforms Advanced By L.A. City Council Transportation Committee

By Joe Linton | Oct 29, 2015 | 5 Comments

As expected, a suite of far-ranging parking reforms was heard by the Los Angeles City Council’s Transportation Committee yesterday. The committee was broadly receptive to the reforms, directing the city’s Transportation Department (LADOT) and other departments to further investigate a number of key reforms. What was perhaps most revealing was individual city councilmember attention to specific parking […]

Today’s L.A. Transportation Committee: Speeding, Bikes On Parking Meters

By Joe Linton | Oct 14, 2015 | 4 Comments

This afternoon the Los Angeles City Council was scheduled to hold its first hearing on motion 15-1006 aimed to reduce speeding and curb unsafe speed limit increases. Unfortunately the item was postponed to a future Transportation Committee meeting. Longtime readers of Streetsblog will recall that the city of Los Angeles is, to a large extent, at […]

City Hall Vision Zero Forum Foreshadows Culture Change for L.A.

By Joe Linton | Sep 25, 2015 | 51 Comments

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. For the uninitiated, Vision Zero is a road safety policy that adopts the goal of zero traffic deaths. That zero applies to everyone: people walking, driving, riding, etc. Vision Zero stems […]

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