Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Livable Streets

San Francisco Pol Wants to Ban Cars on Market Street

By Damien Newton | Jul 29, 2008 | 6 Comments

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that City Supervisor Chris Daly wants to ban cars from part of Market Street. While transit would still be able to traverse the 2.3 mile stretch between Octavia Boulevard and the Embarcadero all privately owned passenger vehicles would be banned. Daly says that the idea of closing Market Street came […]

Gate Swinging Shut on Ballona Creek Entrance

By Damien Newton | Jul 10, 2008 | 7 Comments

The LAPD Testifies on the Gate Closure Yesterday, the City Council Transportation Committee followed the advice of the LAPD and voted to approve a trial closure of one of the entrances to the Ballona Creek trail along Culver Drive between Purdue Avenue and Sawtelle Boulevard. An amendment by Committee Chair Wendy Greuel requires that a […]

Contented Streets: Why Copenhagen Is the World’s Happiest Capital

By Brad Aaron | Jul 3, 2008 | No Comments

Why have Danes again been named the happiest people on the planet? Early this year ABC News cited bikes as "perhaps … the best symbol of Danish happiness," and in this clip from "Contested Streets" it isn’t hard to see why. Here, livable streets guru Jan Gehl and others explain the many ways an increase […]

¡Arriba Sevilla!

By Sarah Goodyear | Jul 1, 2008 | 2 Comments

I was in Seville last week for the first time since February 2007, and in the intervening year there’s been something of a transportation revolution in the city. It’s most visibly evident in the Sevici bike-share bikes (bicis in Spanish) that are everywhere. The system launched in April 2007, and ultimately there will be 250 […]

South LA Street Improvement Project Moves Forward, Times Unhappy

By Damien Newton | Jun 26, 2008 | 5 Comments

Artist’s Rendering of South Figueroa After Funded Streetscape Improvements What would you think of a government grant funding $22.5 million for streetscape improvements on Figueroa Street in South Los Angeles to support biking, walking and transit usage? What if the same project allocated another 7.5 million will be used to renovate Expo Park, build a […]

Spring and Main’s ‘Whimsical’ New Median

By Damien Newton | Jun 25, 2008 | No Comments

Out with the old… …And In with the New The Times reported this morning that the construction of a new median at the Intersection of Main Street and Spring Street at the edge of the Fashion District has been completed. The large, colorful, half circles may appear odd at first, but they were designed to […]

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