Recent Streetsblog LA posts about LADOT

It’s Repaving Season

By Damien Newton | Jun 3, 2009 | 4 Comments

New Crosswalk at the corner of Fuller Street and Beverly Last night when biking home from the Bicycle Advisory Committee Meeting, I noticed that Fourth Street, home to the 4th Street Bike Boulevard movement, had been repaved for large stretches of the street. Stretches of asphalt that used to be populated with potholes and was […]

LADOT Claims to Be Out of the Loop on Bike Master Plan

By Damien Newton | Jun 3, 2009 | 17 Comments

What’s going on with the Bike Master Plan? That question has been on the minds of cyclists ever since public outreach meetings for the plan were announced in January of 2008. The release last week of a series of low-resolution maps by the Department of City Planning actually made the confusion and frustration felt by […]

Cyclists and Pedestrians Looking for a Champion

By Damien Newton | Jun 2, 2009 | 3 Comments

Photo of bicycle after its rider was killed by an LADWP truck via the Daily News. As we approach the summer season, a time when streets are more filled with people NOT in a car, and the number of crashes involving cyclists and pedestrians continues to grow; now would be the perfect time for some […]

City Starts to Release Bike Plan

By Damien Newton | May 29, 2009 | 13 Comments

View the maps that are the framework for the BMP at http://www.labikeplan.org/bikeway_maps/ Yesterday afternoon, the City of Los Angeles began the slow roll out of the Bike Master Plan by emailing members of Neighborhood Councils a letter announcing that the maps that will be the framework of the engineering portion of the BMP are available […]

City Council Wants to Get Cyclists More Involved with Bike Planning

By Damien Newton | May 27, 2009 | 6 Comments

Tom LaBonge addresses cyclists after "May Day Storm the Bastille." Photo: Dr. Alex Thompson/Flickr If anyone doubts that the city is starting to hear and understand the issues of cyclists after a series of organized May rides, those doubts should be expelled today. During a rather routine LADOT report on how $6 million in funds […]

City Has a Plan for Expo Bike Path, But What About Complete Streets?

By Damien Newton | May 20, 2009 | 6 Comments

Cyclists on the Expo Exposure Ride take a break in front of Dorsey High. It finally appears as though the Expo Bike Path, the path that is going to run parallel to Phases I and II of the Expo Line is going to be built. After the Expo Construction Authority punted on taking the lead […]

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