Recent Streetsblog LA posts about LADOT

Broadway Dress Rehearsal Project Gets New, More Durable Surface

By Joe Linton | Jul 9, 2015 | 7 Comments

Downtown L.A.’s “Broadway Dress Rehearsal” project entered a new phase last month. SBLA readers will recall that the Broadway project was a relatively quick and low-cost creation of bulb-outs designed to calm traffic. The project removed space from cars, giving it to people dining and traveling on foot on one of L.A.’s highest pedestrian-volume streets. […]

Dangerous Intersection of Venice and Robertson Gets a Flashing Yellow Signal

By Damien Newton | Jul 6, 2015 | 15 Comments

Last November, David Lindley was walking across the street at the five point intersection of Venice and South Robertson Boulevard when he was struck and killed. Lindley, an autistic teen who attended nearby Hamilton High School, was mourned by friends and family who vowed to see the intersection fixed. Three months later, with the construction […]

Leimert Park People St Plaza Opens; Stakeholders Debate Building a Cultural Center

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 1, 2015 | 3 Comments

“Don’t tell anybody I’m using these,” Councilmember Herb Wesson said of the blue art scissors he wielded as the moment came to cut the ribbon on Leimert Park Village’s People St Plaza project this past Saturday. The enormous pair of wooden scissors held by Institute for Maximum Human Potential President/CEO Delores Brown — the fiscal sponsor […]

Eyes on the Street: Downtown L.A. Has Three Great Bike Corrals

By Joe Linton | Jun 30, 2015 | 13 Comments

A couple weeks ago, I reported that the great new bike corral on Main Street at 5th was the first in downtown Los Angeles. Commenter Steven White correctly pointed out that there are indeed two other on-street bike corrals in the Downtown Arts District. So although it is the first in the historic core, the Main […]

Saturday! Leimert Park Celebrates 2nd Annual 20|20 Vision Charette with People St Plaza Launch

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 26, 2015 | 1 Comment

It is noon on a Monday. The weekly Leimert Park Village (LPV) stakeholders meeting has just finished, and Sherri Franklin, founder of the Urban Design Center, and Romerol Malveaux, former Field Director for the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, are leading a small group of people on a walk around the village streets. Map in hand, […]

Transportation Committee Questions LAPD’s 8,000+ Annual Ped Tickets

By Joe Linton | Jun 24, 2015 | 28 Comments

This afternoon the Los Angeles City Council Transportation Committee discussed a motion questioning the effectiveness of LAPD’s “jaywalking” enforcement. The pedestrian enforcement motion, 15-0546, was authored by City Councilmember Mike Bonin, who chairs the committee. LAPD reported that there was no way to provide the analysis requested in the motion, but did provide some pedestrian enforcement […]

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