Recent Streetsblog LA posts about NELA

Huizar: Bike Lanes on Colorado Will Go Forward. Fox 11 Is Shocked.

By Damien Newton | Jun 4, 2013 | 27 Comments

Los Angeles Local News, Weather, and Traffic Good news out of Eagle Rock. Last night, a public meeting on a proposed bike lane for Colorado Boulevard drew out supporters and opposition, but in the end there were more cyclists in favor of the lanes than cranky people opposing them. Recognizing the riding tide, Councilman Jose […]

LADOT approves NELA bike lanes after lengthy contentious battle. But don’t declare victory just yet.

By Ted Rogers | May 31, 2013 | 2 Comments

Update: City Planner Claire Bowen sends word that the determination sent out yesterday was merely a procedural matter, and should not be read as a final decision in the matter. The city is still accepting input and no decision has been made. So much for that. …….. The announcement, when it broke yesterday, came without […]

Cyclists Go Positive Against Mis-Information Campaign in Northeast L.A.

By Sara Bond | May 9, 2013 | 13 Comments

The past few months has literally been a battle as the LADOT readies to begin implementing the 2010 Bike Plan by adding bike lanes to a Northeast neighborhood in LA. After reading the Boulevard Sentinel’s (a local weekly paper) opinion on the negative impact bike lanes would have on this small community, I wanted to show […]

Economic Review of York Boulevard Road Diet Shows Bike Lanes Don’t Cause Loss of Business

By Damien Newton | Sep 25, 2012 | 8 Comments

A recent report by Cullen McCormick uses a road diet in Northeast Los Angeles as a case study to examine the economic impacts of reducing mixed-use travel lanes and increasing bicycle lanes. Despite the traditional opposition of local businesses when diets are proposed in front of their stores, McCormick’s case study finds there was little […]

City Council Poised to Approve Four More Parklets

By Damien Newton | Aug 21, 2012 | 8 Comments

(Note: Details on all three City Council hearings on the resolution authorizing four parklets to be built can be found at the end of this story.) By Friday, the Los Angeles City Council could give the green light to four “pilot” parklets. Parklets are miniature open space projects where one or more parking spaces are […]

Divide and Conquer on the 710 Big Dig

By Damien Newton | Aug 20, 2012 | 6 Comments

Last week, Metro finished its most recent public meetings outlining twelve proposals to fill the so-called 4.5 mile “gap” on the I-710 between Alhambra and Pasadena at the I-210. The public response to the twelve alternatives presented was near-uniformly negative. Anger was particularly high at new proposals to connect the I-710 to the I-210 including, a […]

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