Recent Streetsblog LA posts about LADOT

Thoughts on Portland, Los Angeles, Race and Bicycling (updated 4:24 P.M.)

By Damien Newton | Dec 16, 2009 | 11 Comments

October 2008 San Fernando Valley Critical Mass. Photo: Digable Soul/Flickr At last week’s Big Bike Meeting at City Hall, Senior Bike Coordinator Michelle Mowery took a swing at a question about the city’s outreach on the Draft Bike Plan, and missed. The questions, which compared the outreach in Los Angeles to that of Portland, home […]

Last Night’s Bike Meeting Highlights: Late Start, Unanswered Questions but Anti-Harassment Ordinance Moves On

By Damien Newton | Dec 10, 2009 | 24 Comments

Cyclists wait in line to testify on Bike Plan. By the time the bike portion of the "Bike-Only" City Council Transportation Committee hearing began at 3:45, one hour and forty-five minutes late, it was clear that the bicycling-love-fest that we’ve seen at past "Bike-Only" meetings wasn’t going to happen. Not only did the meeting start […]

Eyes on the Street: LADOT Rides the Sidewalk

By Damien Newton | Dec 1, 2009 | 13 Comments

Photo: The God of Thor This photo of an LADOT parking enforcement cyclist riding down the sidewalk was taken yesterday afternoon. Of course, riding in the sidewalk is perfectly legal in Los Angeles. However given some of the actions by the LAPD and the warnings by bicycle safety experts that sidewalk riding is the most […]

Echo Park Community Warns Metro: Hybrid Plan for Route 2 Terminus Untested, Illegal

By Damien Newton | Nov 18, 2009 | 7 Comments

The LADOT’s favored alternative. Of course, they’re willing to "compromise." At 1:00 P.M. down at Metro Headquarters Board Room, the Metro Board Planning and Programming Committee will vote on a staff proposal to accept a "hybrid alternative" to the Route 2 Terminus project. Last week, Streetsblog discussed the broken process that led to the "hybrid" […]

More at Stake in City’s Measure R Debate than Just Bike/Ped. Issues

By Damien Newton | Nov 17, 2009 | 1 Comment

The city wants to use its Measure R Local Return for multi-modalism. Photo: In the summer of 2008, when Streetsblog first announced its "1% for bikes, 1% for peds. campaign" in what would later be known as Measure R, we never thought that a year and a half later we would still be fighting that […]

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