Recent Streetsblog LA posts about LADOT

Englander Touts Reseda Great Street Upgrade, Includes Protected Bike Lanes

By Joe Linton | Mar 24, 2015 | 25 Comments

The city of Los Angeles will receive its first parking-protected bike lanes this weekend. The new parking-protected lanes are part of a Great Streets upgrade to Reseda Boulevard in Northridge. They will extend one mile from Parthenia Street to Plummer Street, replacing existing conventional bike lanes. If readers are unfamiliar with parking-protected bike lanes, also called […]

Not Your Parents’ LADOT

By Joel Epstein | Mar 20, 2015 | 9 Comments

One of the nice things about shopping for food and eating in France is that the quality is assured by rigorous government regulation. While some boulangeries are better than others, in general, consumers can find a good quality baguette in any bakery. Refreshingly, the same might be said about the Westside Urban Forum‘s (WUF) monthly […]

People St Opens First Project with Plaza in North Hollywood

By Damien Newton | Feb 23, 2015 | No Comments

What was once an empty alley near the busy intersection of Magnolia and Lankershim Boulevards in the heart of the North Hollywood Arts District is now a public plaza with tables, chairs, green polka dots on the pavement, and sun shade. The plaza, the second of its kind and the first completed project in LADOT’s […]

Eyes on the Street: Cars Running the Red at Venice and Robertson

By Damien Newton | Feb 9, 2015 | 18 Comments

Expo super-fan Gökhan Esirgen sends along the above video of cars running the red light at the newly-reconstructed intersection of Venice Blvd. and Robertson Blvd. Esirgen writes, “Note that this is not a seldom event — it happens for about five seconds in almost every cycle during rush hour and it’s typical of this intersection now. […]

LADOT Striping Some, Not All, of Bike Lanes on Repaved Venice Blvd

By Joe Linton | Jan 30, 2015 | 18 Comments

The preliminary striping is down on the resurfaced mid-city stretch of Venice Boulevard that SBLA highlighted last week. The site is east of the existing Venice Blvd bike lanes, in the Los Angeles City neighborhoods of Harvard Heights, Arlington Heights, and Mid-City. The good news is that the L.A. City Transportation Department (LADOT) is extending bike lanes one […]

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