Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Downtown LA

Law Enforcement and Bike Safety: Top Cops Must Innovate, not Prevaricate

By Roger Rudick | Sep 2, 2014 | 11 Comments

If you approach LAPD headquarters from First Street, City Hall is reflected in the windows. This was designed into the building intentionally, to remind cops that they’re not there to serve the police department itself; they’re to serve the people of Los Angeles. When I first moved to downtown from Los Feliz in 2009, I […]

Eyes On The Street: Broadway’s Got New Bulb-Outs

By Joe Linton | Apr 17, 2014 | 5 Comments

Crews are out this week doing striping and new crosswalks for a project called Broadway’s Dress Rehearsal. Broadway is, arguably, Los Angeles’ most heavily pedestrian street. The current project reallocates former car-lane space to make way for pedestrians. It’s no secret that the transformation here is inspired by NYC’s relatively-inexpensive street plazas, including Times Square. […]

City Leaders Shepherding MyFigueroa Stakeholders Toward Consensus

By Joe Linton | Mar 26, 2014 | 6 Comments

The long-anticipated MyFigueroa project made another appearance at the Los Angeles City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) committee yesterday. With more than a hundred supporters in attendance, a great deal of staff work, political leadership, and a stakeholder summit process underway, it appears that MyFigueroa may be on track to break ground some […]

Eyes On The Street: Second Street Tunnel’s Semi-Protected Bikeway

By Joe Linton | Mar 20, 2014 | 20 Comments

Sahra Sulaiman, SBLA’s Communities Editor for Boyle Heights and South L.A. took this photo last Sunday, showing the flattened and missing pylons in the Second Street Tunnel in Downtown Los Angeles. This is Los Angeles’ first and only protected bikeway. Just last night, she spotted two cars that had collided parked in the westbound bike […]

Los Angeles Revisits Its Zoning Code via “re:code LA” Process

By Joe Linton | Mar 19, 2014 | 3 Comments

The city of Los Angeles Department of City Planning is hosting a series of seven community planning forums running now through April 12th. Tonight’s forum is at Metro HQ in Downtown L.A. from 5-8pm. The forums are for public feedback on three citywide planning processes: re:code L.A., Mobility Plan 2035, and Plan for a Healthy Los Angeles. Streetsblog is previewing […]

MyFigueroa Project Picking Up Key Neighborhood Council Support

By Joe Linton | Mar 12, 2014 | No Comments

MyFigueroa is picking up some steam as the city’s decision on an appeal of the project’s certification approaches. MyFigueroa is the city of L.A.’s innovative downtown complete streets project, in the works since 2008. The project extends from Downtown L.A. (from the 7th and Fig outdoor mall) into South L.A.(to Exposition Park), and features pedestrian, […]

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