Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Downtown LA

Hummer Hits Bike, LAPD and City Attorney Worry About Hummer

By Damien Newton | Jun 24, 2009 | 20 Comments

The LAPD testified that this hummer had full license plates at today’s hearing. Where they intentionally lieing, or hadn’t the officer looked at the pictures that had been submitted? Photo: Luis On April 24, a gentleman and his family were driving around Downtown Los Angeles in a hummer when a crazed cyclist rammed the back […]

Lakers Parade Shows Us L.A. Can Have Ciclovia

By Damien Newton | Jun 18, 2009 | 2 Comments

I would have preferred more people, but they were crowded at the end of the block. For anyone that’s so interested in the Livable Streets Movement that they missed the results of the NBA Finals, the Lakers beat the Magic on Sunday and yesterday the city celebrated with a mostly privately funded victory parade and […]

Council Tips Its Hand on Transit Priorities

By Damien Newton | Jun 9, 2009 | 15 Comments

Sketch of the future Broadway after a streetcar arrives via Bringing Broadway Back. In addition to discussing Measure R, tomorrow’s L.A. City Council Transportation Committee also features a couple of motions that spell out the top priorities for the city’s transportation planning in the 2010 Fiscal Year. The three motions would move just over sixteen […]

City Approves New Ped. Friendly Design Standard for the Downtown

By Damien Newton | Apr 29, 2009 | 2 Comments

The New Genesis Apartments Will Comply with New Proposed Pedestrian Standards Back in January, the LA Downtown News reported on exciting new design standards for new development in the Downtown which will lead to wider sidewalks, landscaped parkways and medians, and bring additional streetlights, trees and street parking to Downtown. The standards, approved last week […]

Students, Professors Acitivsts Call for Grade-Separated Connector

By Damien Newton | Mar 31, 2009 | 6 Comments

Image: Metro.net Last night Metro, kicked off a week of public outreach for the environmental studies for the Downtown Connector,aka Regional Connector, with a meeting at the University of Southern California. This marked the first time that they held a meeting at USC as previous efforts had focused on the Downtown and Chinatown. For those […]

Have Your Say on the New Design for Civic Center Park

By Damien Newton | Mar 13, 2009 | 4 Comments

Photo: Eric Richardson at Blogdowntown Yesterday morning, the LA Times unveiled Rios Clementi Hale’s new design for the Civic Center Park, which will be under construction in the spring of 2010. Reaction to the plan, be it from the LA Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne or downtowners at Blogdowntown has been more negative than positive. […]

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