Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Downtown LA

Downtown L.A. Neighborhood Council Hosts Forum on Building a Bike Network

By Damien Newton | May 30, 2012 | 2 Comments

Maybe you haven’t noticed. Maybe you don’t go Downtown often enough. Or maybe the coverage of what seems to be dozens of small projects hasn’t made the impact it should have. Heck, maybe Streetsblog hasn’t done a good enough job of covering it, but slowly and surely Downtown Los Angeles is building a working bike […]

How’d They Do It: City Worked Hard to Avoid “Sportsaggeddon”

By Damien Newton | May 23, 2012 | 4 Comments

(Many of you know Carlos Morales from his leadership roles with the Eastside Bike Club or Voice Community Newspapers. In his earlier career, Morales was an event programmer, producing large concerts and other major attractions. He offers his views on this weekend’s Sportsaggedon from both the view of a transportation advocate and large event planner. […]

Add a Green Buffered Bike Lane and Number of Cyclists Explode

By Damien Newton | May 11, 2012 | 10 Comments

Yesterday, the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition released “2011 City of Los Angeles Bicycle & Pedestrian Count Report” and a separate study on bicycling on Spring Street in the Green Buffered Bike Lane. The result? Cycling in the city is on the upswing, as positive press, CicLAvia and new infrastructure are encouraging more people to […]

Walking Downtown Los Angeles with L.A. Walks and California’s Top Pedestrian Advocates

By Lindsey Miller | May 7, 2012 | No Comments

Old toy warehouses. Coca-Cola bottling plants. Bridge-cable manufacturing. A sushi restaurant with cardboard furniture. Angel City Brewing. Buildings covered with colorful graffiti. This is the old and the new that inhabit an area of Downtown Los Angeles that most people just catch glimpses of from the 101 or the 10 as they drive by. On […]

Only 70 Speakers? Regional Connector Enviro. Docs Approved by Metro

By Damien Newton | Apr 26, 2012 | 4 Comments

After two months of delay, and after being pushed to second on today’s agenda behind the Westside Subway, the Regional Connector finally had a moment to shine at the Metro Board of Directors. The environmental documents approving the Connector passed seven to zero. The official twitter account for the Regional Connector celebrated by noting that […]

Eyes on the Street: The Spring Street Bypass Lane

By Damien Newton | Apr 23, 2012 | 23 Comments

Avid Streetsblog reader Simon Hartigan is tired of drivers driving down the Spring Street Green Buffered Bike Lanes. After catching drivers using the bike lane as bypass, he sent the video to Streetsblog. This raises the question of what should the city’s next step to protect the bike lane be? Is it time for grade […]

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