Recent Streetsblog LA posts about LADOT

What You Need to Know Before This Week’s Pico-Olympic Meetings

By Damien Newton | Mar 30, 2009 | 1 Comment

When I first read that the Los Angeles Department of Public Transportation was holding public meetings this week on a revised Pico-Olympic Plan, I got nostalgic. Covering the battle between the community and the city over the plan to remove rush-hour parking, restripe the roads and retime the signals was the signature story back at […]

Dodgers Won’t Lift a Finger to Save Dodger Trolley

By Damien Newton | Mar 16, 2009 | 7 Comments

Jackie Robinson could take transit to the stadium in Brooklyn; but these Trolley Dodgers won’t have a trolley. Blogdowntown reports that the chances that transit service comes back to Dodger Stadium are about the same as the Dodgers clearing out parking spaces for helicopter parking. Despite a verbal commitment to the City Council last year […]

LADOT Opens Westwood Crosswalks to Pedestrians

By Damien Newton | Feb 11, 2009 | 6 Comments

The People of Westwood Celebrate the Liberation of Their Crosswalk at the Corner of Glendon and Weyburn. Photo: BikinginLA On Monday, I re-posted a story that first appeared on the excellent blog bikinginla about a Westwood crosswalk that was posted as closed to pedestrians. On Tuesday, I decided to do the responsible thing and actually […]

Only in LA: DOT Wants to Remove Crosswalks to Protect Pedestrians

By Damien Newton | Jan 23, 2009 | 10 Comments

(Editor’s Note: Thanks to everyone who wrote in or commented that a "T Intersection" is a legal crosswalk in California regardless of whether it is striped or not. I knew that, I was going for satire and inadvertently misled people. Sorry for any confusion.) Pedestrians in Los Angeles rejoice! As news reports continue to come […]

City to Help Fix Streets Surrounding the Grove

By Damien Newton | Jan 13, 2009 | No Comments

One of the Faux Streets, Closed to Car Traffic, at the Grove The benefits of having an outdoor cathedral to consumerism located in your neighborhood, even one as pleasant and well-designed as The Grove, are debatable. As part of the deal that brought the Grove to the Mid City West Community, the Grove had to […]

City’s Measure R Plan a Test for Villaraigosa

By Damien Newton | Jan 5, 2009 | 26 Comments

Mayor Villaraigosa Mugs for the Cameras at Opening of Dodger Trolley Back when Metro was preparing its project list for the potential funds that would be generated by what now is known as Measure R, there was a grassroots effort to get the agency a small set aside of the billions that will be raised […]

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