Recent Streetsblog LA posts about LADOT

More Eyes on the Street: 2nd Street Protected Bike Lane Damaged in Crash

By Damien Newton | Jan 16, 2014 | 3 Comments

Some time in the last couple of days, the 2nd Street protected bike lane was damaged when a car crashed through the pylons into the side of the 2nd Street Tunnel heading into Downtown Los Angeles. Sahra Sulaiman snapped this picture yesterday and reports that at least three of the barrier pylons were removed, a […]

Your Q and A with Jon Kirk Mukri

By Damien Newton | Jan 2, 2014 | 7 Comments

You asked, he answered. Moments after going on hiatus for the holidays, I received an email from the Los Angeles Department of Transportation with answers from the “Reader Q and A” with interim LADOT General Manager Jon Kirk Mukri. Jon Kirk Mukri took over as interim general manager on December 1, taking over for Jaime […]

A Look at Parklets from the L.A. Forum: L.A. Interrupted

By Martina Dolejsova | Dec 19, 2013 | 1 Comment

(The following article appeared in the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design Fall 2013 Newsletter, available here. For information on how to join the forum, click here. In addition to other benefits, members receive a paper copy of the newsletter in the mail. – DN) Last February, urban designers, architects, landscape architects, politicians, and […]

Wendy in a Wheelchair: Awakening to the State of LA’s Sidewalks

By Roger Rudick | Dec 18, 2013 | 6 Comments

Wendy, my girlfriend, is a skilled rock climber with eight years experience. Unfortunately, sometimes rocks just break. On July 6, she was climbing Mount Emerson, near Bishop, when an anchor ripped free–she fell nearly 100 feet onto a granite ledge. She’s spent much of her recuperation at my home in downtown Los Angeles. And that’s […]

We Can Tell You How to Get, How to Get to People St

By Damien Newton | Dec 11, 2013 | 4 Comments

“Thank you for liberating our streets,” City Council Transportation Committee Chair Mike Bonin greeted LADOT staff last week. While LADOT staff may not be used to a hero’s welcome, Assistant General Manager Dan Mitchell and Assistant Pedestrian Coordinator Valerie Watson weren’t there to present a typical transportation project, or even to talk about why some […]

Getting Closer and Closer to Broadway’s Dress Rehearsal.

By Damien Newton | Dec 10, 2013 | No Comments

This summer, the city and the “Bringing Back Broadway” coalition announced an exciting program to recreate the physical layout of the historic theatre district on Broadway between 1st and 11th Streets. Phase I, or the appropriately named “dress rehearsal” involved the creation of semi-permanent infrastructure to create plazas, barrier planters, and other traffic calming and […]

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