Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Livable Streets

Events: 2 Hit and Run Court Appearances, Finish the Ride, #Fig4All #LA2050 Visioning Workshop

By Damien Newton | Apr 21, 2014 | No Comments

Just as the week before Easter/Passover is usually a light one, the week after is usually a heavy one. And this one is heavy. Court appearances, committee hearings, educational events, a Streetsblog L.A. event with the Bike Oven, two amazing sounding events on Sunday. It’s a packed house. Tuesday – Wendy Villegas, the woman who […]

If Cleanliness is Next to Godliness, Surely it Should Also be a Component of “Complete”-ness, No?

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 10, 2014 | 4 Comments

As folks were preparing to cut the cake in honor of the Complete Streets Day motion put forth by Councilmember Jose Huizar at City Hall last week, I was getting geared up to volunteer at a high school located in his district, around which many of the streets are decidedly incomplete. I had run into […]

We Can Tell You How to Get, How to Get to People St

By Damien Newton | Dec 11, 2013 | 4 Comments

“Thank you for liberating our streets,” City Council Transportation Committee Chair Mike Bonin greeted LADOT staff last week. While LADOT staff may not be used to a hero’s welcome, Assistant General Manager Dan Mitchell and Assistant Pedestrian Coordinator Valerie Watson weren’t there to present a typical transportation project, or even to talk about why some […]

Op/Ed – Before Garcetti Can Be the Hero, He Needs to Slay the Zombies

By Damien Newton | Oct 15, 2013 | 10 Comments

Yesterday’s announcement that a planned pedestrian bridge for most of the corners of Lankershim Boulevard and Universal Hollywood Drive would cost $27 million, instead of the originally announced $19 million, was more bad news for those striving to make Los Angeles’ streets a better place. When Streetsblog last reported on this project, the cost was […]

MyFigueroa! Plan for LA’s First Protected Bike Lanes Clears Environmental Review

By Damien Newton | Aug 8, 2013 | 35 Comments

Yesterday, the Los Angeles Department of City Planning released the Final Environmental Impact Report for the South Figueroa Streetscape Project (MyFigueroa!). The $20 million MyFigueroa! Project will bring Los Angeles its first protected bike lanes and a transit-only lane while removing some street parking and mixed-use travel lanes. “As the first such protected bicycle facility […]

Recounting Sunday’s Justice For Trayvon March, Taking to the Freeway, & Thoughts on Urbanism & Racial Inequities

By Gary Kavanagh | Jul 19, 2013 | 10 Comments

On the Sunday morning of July 14th I caught word of a rally and march calling for justice for Trayvon Martin on twitter to take place at 4:00pm meeting at Crenshaw Blvd. and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. I came out to see and hear what people had to say, and I wanted to feel […]

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