Recent Streetsblog LA posts about LADOT

Two Camps Have Formed on Wilbur Ave. Road Diet, LADOT Compromise Plan Kept Under Wraps

By Damien Newton | Feb 22, 2011 | 21 Comments

Late last year, Councilman Greig Smith and the LADOT convened a four-part Wilbur Working Group to address the concerns created when the LADOT re-striped Wilbur Avenue last August. The “new” Wilbur features two mixed-use traffic lanes, two bike lanes, and a turning lane. The “old” Wilbur had four mixed-use traffic lanes. After three meetings of […]

From Spokes People to Bikeroots

By Carter Rubin | Feb 10, 2011 | 7 Comments

Back in January 2009, Los Angeles Magazine writer Matthew Segal took an assignment as an embedded reporter (so to speak) with bike activists and group riders. The resulting article, titled “Bike Culture: Spokes People,” was a thoughtful five-page assessment of the state of the bike community in Los Angeles from the perspective of a curious […]

Despite Rocky Hearing, Draft Bike Plan Moves to Last Stop, the Full City Council

By Damien Newton | Feb 10, 2011 | 16 Comments

(Note: We’re just covering yesterday’s hearing in this article. For more on the actual content of the plan, click here.) Yesterday, the Los Angeles City Council held a joint hearing of the Transportation Committee and the Planning and Land Use (PLUM) Committee to discuss the city’s Draft Bike Plan. By the end of the hearing, […]

LADOT Following Up on 2009 Promise, More Bike Lanes on Reseda, Rinaldi in the Valley

By Damien Newton | Jan 26, 2011 | 5 Comments

Yesterday, the LADOT Bike Blog announced two new bike lane projects that were completed in the Valley this weekend. On Rinaldi Street 1.3 miles of bike lanes were added over the weeked that closed a gap between two existing sets of lanes were completed for a continuous eight miles from Laurel Canyon Road to Mason […]

A Snapshot of City Priorities: Bike Applications to Metro’s Call for Projects

By Damien Newton | Jan 14, 2011 | 7 Comments

View 2011 Metro Call for Projects – Bikeways in a larger map Google Map of Bikeways projects put together by Bikeside’s Daniel Rodman (This is Part 4 of our Call for Projects review. Part 1 explained why this series is important. Part 2 looked at the car capacity enhancement proposals. Part 3 looked at freight […]

LADOT Call for Projects Review: Freight Movement

By Damien Newton | Jan 13, 2011 | 1 Comment

(This is Part 3 of our Call for Projects review. Part 1 explained why this series is important. Part 2 looked at the car capacity enhancement proposals. Part 4 tomorrow.) We don’t talk a lot about freight movement on Streetsblog, and we probably should. After all, the number of trucks on our roads are used […]

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