Recent Streetsblog LA posts about LADOT

Transportation Committee Terminates LADOT Taxi Study Contract

By Joe Linton | Sep 23, 2009 | 14 Comments

Photo:ShelbyWils/Flickr This afternoon’s Los Angeles City Council Transportation Committee was dominated by the taxi controversy explained in this earlier post. In brief, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) is overseeing a taxi assessment to set future taxi policy, and LADOT awarded a contract for that assessment in a manner that bypassed agreed-upon processes. There […]

Taxi Contract Controversy at Transportation Committee Wednesday

By Joe Linton | Sep 21, 2009 | 7 Comments

Photo, by Joe Linton, from the L.A. Taxi Workers Alliance protest at City Hall in August The agenda for this Wednesday’s Los Angeles City Council Transportation Committee includes an important hearing on the future of Los Angeles’ taxi system. As is evident in cities throughout the world, taxis can play an important role in providing a healthy […]

Bike Path Cleanup, New Parking Meter Attendents, and LADOT’s Organization: The Rest of Next Week’s Transportation Committee Agenda

By Damien Newton | Sep 4, 2009 | 1 Comment

Meet the new boss. Photo: SoCal Social Club/Flickr Yesterday we reported on the ongoing debate over the Wilshire Bus-Only Lanes, but that’s hardly the only item of interest on next Wednesday’s City Council Transportation Committee Agenda. For starters, after a slew of bad publicity surrounding the "trashed" state of the Orange Line Bike Trail, the […]

Welcome to the Blogroll: Rita Robinson’s Twitter Page

By Damien Newton | Sep 1, 2009 | 4 Comments

Photo: LA Chamber of Commerce/Flickr Normally, I wouldn’t add a Flickr page to our blogroll on the right; but given that the LADOT press office is operating on a shoestring budget a flickr page from the LADOT General Manager could be a useful tool to get information out to the public. While Robinson hasn’t been […]

LADOT P.S.A. – Same Crash, Different Perspective

By Damien Newton | Sep 1, 2009 | 10 Comments

So, a lot of you didn’t like the Emmy Award Winning P.S.A. put out by LADOT in 2008 which showed a young girl getting hit by a speeding car because it put too much of the blame on the girl and not enough on the driver. I thought it was a powerful piece, maybe because […]

LADOT Wins Emmy for Powerful “Watch the Road” P.S.A.

By Damien Newton | Aug 31, 2009 | 7 Comments

Given how we’ve mocked LADOT’s previous Emmy Award Winning P.S.A., you might think this headline was sarcastic, but it’s not. The above Public Service Announcement, a surprisingly graphic advertisement that delivers a powerful message that no matter who is legally "at fault" drivers need to watch the road carefully or they could end up with […]

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