Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Echo Park

Still from dashcam footage of January hit-and-run crash on Glendale Boulevard

Glendale Blvd Hit-and-Run Crash Highlights Need for Safety Improvements

By Joe Linton | Feb 3, 2022 | No Comments

If Caltrans is serious about its professed commitment to safety, multi-modal transportation, and complete streets, it should take some kind of immediate action to fix the situation.

Eyes on the Street: Safer Shorter Crossings in Silver Lake and Echo Park

By Joe Linton | Aug 17, 2015 | 4 Comments

Sometimes neighborhood livability and walkability do not need to wait for multi-million dollar infrastructure streetscape re-vamps. Sometimes all it takes is paint. Or, as in the case of these streets, longer-lasting thermoplastic striping that doubles as “paint.” Thanks to tips from friends of the blog, Ryan Johnson and Jessica Meaney, I recently visited two central Los […]

Bruce Chan, second to the right, explains his group's model of Glendale Boulevard as a culturally rich roadway. Photo: Kris Fortin

Re-imagining Glendale Boulevard

By Kristopher Fortin | Jan 19, 2012 | 10 Comments

While Jose Sigala, president of the Greater Echo Park Elysian Neighborhood Council, and architect Peter Lassen helped construct their group’s model of Glendale Boulevard from plastic eggshells and hair curlers, imagination came into conflict with reality. Lassen wanted to see a park sprout near the Glendale Boulevard exit of the 2 Freeway, but Sigala explained […]

Diagram for Route 2 “Hybrid” Option Unveiled Before Tomorrow’s Metro Vote

By Damien Newton | Dec 9, 2009 | 6 Comments

The "hybrid" option, revealed. For a large version of this file, click here. Ten years ago, when the Route 2 Terminus Project was first conceived, it had some progressive goals. Among them was the goal of slowing down traffic on the Route 2 flyover that dumps traffic on Glendale Boulevard so that pedestrians on Glendale […]

Echo Park Community Warns Metro: Hybrid Plan for Route 2 Terminus Untested, Illegal

By Damien Newton | Nov 18, 2009 | 7 Comments

The LADOT’s favored alternative. Of course, they’re willing to "compromise." At 1:00 P.M. down at Metro Headquarters Board Room, the Metro Board Planning and Programming Committee will vote on a staff proposal to accept a "hybrid alternative" to the Route 2 Terminus project. Last week, Streetsblog discussed the broken process that led to the "hybrid" […]

LADOT Values Capacity over Community on Route 2/Glendale Blvd. Drags Metro along for the Ride

By Damien Newton | Nov 11, 2009 | 8 Comments

For over a decade, the Echo Park community has been in negotiations with the big three of local transportation agencies, Metro, LADOT and Caltrans, over redesigning the terminus of Route 2 to improve traffic flow. Over forty years ago a coalition of Echo Park and Silver Lake residents banded together to keep Route 2 from […]

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