Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Hyperion

Public Works Board Approves Sidewalk Deficient Glendale-Hyperion Bridge

By Joe Linton | May 15, 2015 | 25 Comments

In a hearing at City Hall this morning, the mayor-appointed Board of Public Works unanimously approved proceeding with the city Bureau of Engineering’s (BOE) recommendation to eliminate one of two sidewalks on its Glendale-Hyperion Bridge retrofit project. The latest version, announced earlier this week, has not changed significantly since 2013 when BOE pushed a similar unsafe design, leading […]

Bike Lanes on Hyperion a Near Certainty, Discussion Moves on to Sidewalks

By Damien Newton | Jan 30, 2014 | 10 Comments

Thanks to a powerful grassroots effort, organized largely on the Internet with an assist from Los Angeles Walks and the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, one of the city’s most depressing road-design projects is becoming an example of what happens when a community demands better from the city’s engineers. “Good riddance to the Hyperion Bridge […]

What Can Be Learned from the Hyperion Bridge Story in Today’s Los Angeles Times

By Damien Newton | Dec 2, 2013 | 11 Comments

It’s an encouraging sign that Streetsblog readers have come to expect high quality coverage of Livable Streets issues in the region’s flagship paper. Today’s piece in the Los Angeles Times by Laura Nelson on the Hyperion and Glendale Bridge seismic retrofit and redesigns has a couple of news bits that you won’t find in Streetsblog’s […]

The Glendale-Hyperion Bridge Project, Musings on Bridges as Destinations, and High Hopes for the New Citizen Advisory Committee

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 26, 2013 | 7 Comments

I am sometimes puzzled by how disconnected an infrastructure plan can be from what is good for a community. Take the plans in the works to widen travel lanes to freeway standards along the Glendale-Hyperion bridge as part of the seismic retrofit it is about to undergo. In a video celebrating the upcoming project, Councilmember […]

The Hyperion Bridge Uprising Storms the Gates

By Damien Newton | Nov 20, 2013 | 5 Comments

I’m going to make a little confession. When I first wrote about the Glendale Boulevard-Hyperion Avenue Complex of Bridges redesign project, I was resigned to a negative outcome. I believed the Bureau of Engineering was too far along in the process, and city leaders too entrenched in the outcome. At the time, the city noted […]

Breaking News: Garcetti Seeks to Extend Hyperion Timeline

By Damien Newton | Nov 8, 2013 | 11 Comments

A spokes person for the Garcetti Administration confirms that the Mayor has asked the Bureau of Engineering to formally request an extension on when it has to spend the $50 million that will fund the Hyperion-Glendale Bridge seismic retrofit. A copy of the city’s letter can be found at the end of the article. Advocates […]

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