Recent Streetsblog LA posts about LADOT

The Dutch’s Think Bike Workshop Comes to LA with an Interesting View of Our Streets

By Damien Newton | Sep 22, 2011 | 17 Comments

Earlier today, Hillie Talens, a Dutch Bicycle Engineer, kicked off the two-day “Think Bike” planning workshop in Downtown Los Angeles with an interesting presentation at City Hall. The bicycle planners, which are different than traditional transportation planners who are focused on the automobile, will lead three groups in redesign exercises for Van Nuys Boulevard in […]

Venice Neighborhood Council Will Discuss Main Street Road Diet/Bike Lanes Tomorrow

By Damien Newton | Sep 19, 2011 | 16 Comments

Tomorrow night, the Venice Neighborhood Council will debate, and possibly approve or reject a proposal by the Los Angeles Department of Transportation to remove travel lanes on Main Street in Venice in an effort to calm traffic and create space for bike lanes. The LADOT’s plan for the area would basically match the layout of […]

LADOT Responds: 20 Miles of Sharrows Part of Mayor’s Infrastructure Commitment

By Damien Newton | Sep 1, 2011 | 6 Comments

Yesterday, we featured a headline by our Joe Linton that pretty harshly criticized an LADOT Bike Blog posting from Monday about the LADOT’s committment to increasing the number of Sharrows on L.A.’s streets. We summarized Linton’s post into a couple of questions and sent them on to the LADOT to get some clarification. After all, the […]

Making Change on North Figueroa Street

By Damien Newton | Aug 25, 2011 | 2 Comments

Earlier this year, when the designs for South Figueroa’s My Figueroa project were released, Josef Bray-Ali wasn’t happy. While many advocates celebrated designs that would, if implemented, result in segregated bike paths, transit-only lanes, pedestrian plazas (at a minimum), Bray-Ali saw another major investment in the Downtown and area around L.A. Live. Meanwhile, the portion […]

What the Heck Is Going on with Bike Plan Implementation?

By Damien Newton | Aug 11, 2011 | 16 Comments

Yesterday, the LADOT and City Planning made their quarterly update to the City Council on the progress of the implementation of the Bike Plan. The Council’s Transportation Committee also moved a motion that would transfer $475,000 to LADOT’s overtime account. Between the somewhat confounding report offered by the agencies and the revelation that bike projects […]

Eyes on the Street: Woodley Avenue Bike Lanes

By Damien Newton | Aug 4, 2011 | 4 Comments

Alert reader Joe Dunavan alerts that new bike lanes have appeared on Woodley Avenue heading south. The pictured section is just south of the Van Nuys Flyaway. These lanes-in-waiting will run for a half mile from Saticoy Street to Sherman Way, roughly a half mile. They connect to existing bike lanes to the north on […]

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