Recent Streetsblog LA posts about LADOT

New Organization at LADOT Marks the End of an Era

By Damien Newton | Mar 8, 2012 | 8 Comments

Ladot Re-Organization Memo (2012!02!17) With Org Chart-1 (1) In February, LADOT General Manager Jaime De La Vega announced a small shakeup in the Department, streamlining the organizational flowchart and altering the jobs of some of it’s top brass. Perhaps the biggest news was the announced retirement of longtime Assistant General Manager John Fisher, who many […]

GOOD’s Graphical Look at the Wilshire Corridor

By Damien Newton | Mar 6, 2012 | No Comments

Wilshire Boulevard. The iconic Boulevard that connects Downtown Los Angeles to the Santa Monica beaches by way of Mid-Town, Korea Town, Larchmont, Miracle Mile, Fairfax, Beverly Hills, Westwood, Brentwood, West L.A. and Santa Monica itself, doesn’t capture the world’s attention. Heck, it doesn’t even get a mention in “I Love L.A.“ But Angelenos know […]

An Interview with the Man Responsible for L.A.’s Bus Benches

By Dana Gabbard | Mar 2, 2012 | 7 Comments

As Damien has noted previously new bus benches are popping up around Los Angeles as new bench provider Martin Outdoor gets up to speed following the city council awarding the contract in August 2011. To find our the status of the program I contacted Lance Oishi, Contract Administrator for Streetscape Development and Coordinated Street Furniture […]

L.A. City Adding New Bikeways, Will They Reach Pledged 40 Miles by June 30?

By Joe Linton | Jan 19, 2012 | 10 Comments

The good news: the city of Los Angeles is implementing more bike lanes than ever before. From July 2011 through December 2011, the city of Los Angeles has implemented 12.5 miles of new bike lanes. This is by far the highest total for any six-month period since at least 1996, and probably the most ever. […]

The Case of the Vanishing Venice Blvd. Bike Lanes

By Damien Newton | Jan 6, 2012 | 3 Comments

Over the break, Josef Bray-Ali, of Bike Oven and Flying Pigeon Bike Shop fame, was bicycling on Venice Boulevard when he noticed something odd. The bike lanes vanished on the north side of the road well before the usual terminus at Crenshaw Boulevard. Furious, Bray-Ali took to the Internet to excorciate the city and Mid-Town […]

LADOT: Finally Getting Serious About Safe Routes to School?

By Damien Newton | Jan 4, 2012 | 1 Comment

For years the LADOT’s applications for state and federal Safe Routes to School (SRTS) funding have been an object of ridicule among transportation advocates. But over the last year, there are signs that the city is taking the funding and designing of safe school routes more seriously. Following a batch of applications this summer that […]

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