Recent Streetsblog LA posts about LADOT

L.A.’s Draft Bikeway Plan: Non-Committal, Sloppy and Perhaps Illegal

By Joe Linton | Oct 9, 2009 | 17 Comments

Shouldn’t this map have street names? Oh… now it does! All Image via labikeplan.org In September 2009, the city of Los Angeles released its draft Bicycle Master Plan update. This followed the May 2009 release of slightly different facility map portions of the plan. The public is invited to four meetings later this month to […]

Original Draft Maps Disappear from Bike Plan Website, But You Can Still View Them on Streetsblog

By Damien Newton | Oct 8, 2009 | 5 Comments

The original Downtown and Westside Bike Plan Map. Last night, during an email conversation between myself, Stephen Box, Dr. Alex Thompson, Ted Rogers and Joe Linton; we were discussing the updated Draft Bike Plan now available on the official Bike Plan website. Linton commented that the original draft maps, the ones that caused such large […]

Unanimous BAC Votes for More Time to Review Draft Bike Plan

By Ted Rogers | Oct 7, 2009 | 4 Comments

The Bike Writer’s Collective huddles at last night’s B.A.C Meeting. Photo: Stephen Box/Facebook It may have been a few months late, but last night’s review of the proposed new bike plan by the Bicycle Advisory Committee had enough fireworks for the fourth of July. From BAC Chair Glenn Bailey to a small, but passionate group […]

Reseda Boulevard Bike Lanes: One Mile Done, Four to Go

By Joe Linton | Oct 5, 2009 | 3 Comments

One down…Photo: Joe Linton Yesterday, the city of L.A. Department of Transportation (LADOT) made good on their pledge to stripe the first new mile of Reseda Boulevard bike lanes. The lanes were approved in 1996, but languished for various reasons detailed earlier, until bicyclists and community members rallied. It’s one mile of a five mile […]

L.A.’s Draft Bike Plan Enters “Civic Enragement” Phase

By Stephen Box | Sep 29, 2009 | 9 Comments

Image: labikeplan.org LA’s Draft Bike Plan is a huge document of thin ambition, that relies on controversy over process to distract from the fact that it lacks vision, it lacks substance, and it lacks the teeth necessary to bring about any change The Draft Bike Plan was released last week, an hour before the end […]

LADOT Stripes Half-Mile of Reseda Bike Lanes

By Joe Linton | Sep 28, 2009 | 7 Comments

Photo: Joe Linton New bike lanes are in use on Reseda Boulevard. L.A. StreetsBlog readers will remember that these lanes were approved in the city of Los Angeles’ 1996 bike plan, but weren’t implemented due to conflicting Department of Transportation (LADOT) plans for additional peak-hour car lanes. When the peak-hour lanes plan faced opposition, LADOT […]

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