Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Downtown LA

Downtown L.A. Celebrates New Parklet On Hope Street

By Joe Linton | Jan 14, 2016 | 4 Comments

People Street meets Hope Street. Just over a hundred people attended the grand opening of Los Angeles’ newest parklet, located on Hope Street just below 11th Street in the downtown L.A. neighborhood of South Park. In case you are not familiar with the term, a parklet is a mini-park that replaces a parking space or […]

Eyes on the Street: Little Tokyo Track Relocation Construction Underway

By Joe Linton | Jan 11, 2016 | 3 Comments

Last Friday, Metro began its slightly-delayed closure of the Little Tokyo Gold Line Station. The station will be closed for about three months while Gold Line tracks are relocated to make way for Regional Connector subway construction. If this construction goes reasonably well, the on time within-budget Regional Connector will open in 2021. Metro’s contractors (Skanska and […]

Eyes on the Street: Bike Lane Closure Signage Gives Wrong Sign?

By Joe Linton | Jul 30, 2015 | 9 Comments

Streetsie winner Nathan Lucero encountered some irritating signage when bicycling north on the Main Street bike lanes near El Pueblo downtown. From his @onmybikeinla Instagram post: (lightly edited) After the bike lane on Main was closed twice, and blocked several times by multiple cars, these awful signs were at Arcadia. The left sign should read […]

Broadway Dress Rehearsal Project Gets New, More Durable Surface

By Joe Linton | Jul 9, 2015 | 7 Comments

Downtown L.A.’s “Broadway Dress Rehearsal” project entered a new phase last month. SBLA readers will recall that the Broadway project was a relatively quick and low-cost creation of bulb-outs designed to calm traffic. The project removed space from cars, giving it to people dining and traveling on foot on one of L.A.’s highest pedestrian-volume streets. […]

Eyes on the Street: Downtown L.A. Has Three Great Bike Corrals

By Joe Linton | Jun 30, 2015 | 13 Comments

A couple weeks ago, I reported that the great new bike corral on Main Street at 5th was the first in downtown Los Angeles. Commenter Steven White correctly pointed out that there are indeed two other on-street bike corrals in the Downtown Arts District. So although it is the first in the historic core, the Main […]

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