Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Livable Streets

Open Space Starved Hollywood Breaks Ground on “Cahuenga Alley”

By Damien Newton | May 3, 2011 | 9 Comments

Its no secret that outside of Griffith Park, Los Angeles is a city starving for open space. There is nowhere this is more true than Hollywood, where even a weekly farmer’s market is under attack because it blocks access to a parking lot. Thus, while Hollywood waits for projects such as the Hollywood Freeway Central […]

New Livable Streets Group Rises in Alhambra

By Damien Newton | May 3, 2011 | 3 Comments

Earlier this year, urban planner and Streetsblog Board Member James Rojas wrote about a harrowing experience he had while trying to cross the street in his home town of Alhambra. While the cause of the experience was some poor driving, the urban planner in Rojas couldn’t help but believe that with better design, Alhambra could […]

Guest Post: Complete Streets Conference Packed 2/25/11

By Lois Arkin | Feb 28, 2011 | 2 Comments

Complete Streets are multi-use environments that enable safe and comfortable access for all users on both roadways and sidewalks in a way that promotes vibrant, healthy and active neighborhoods. Pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and public transportation users of all ages and abilities, including older people, children and people with disabilities, are able to safely move along […]

CRA Unveils Draft Plans for South Figueroa, Public Mostly Positive

By Damien Newton | Feb 9, 2011 | 15 Comments

A standing room only audience descended on the Fashion Institute of Design on South Grand Street to listen to a presentation from the embattled Community Redevelopment Agency for a ground breaking and popular proposal to transform the South Figueroa Corridor. When people discuss Los Angeles’ streets, they usually use terms such as “car-oriented” or “ugly.” […]

Will Figueroa Street Be Los Angeles’ First Truly Complete Street?

By Damien Newton | Jan 25, 2011 | 32 Comments

I have to be honest. If the My Figueroa project ends up fulfilling its mission of designing a people-friendly Figueroa Street from the southwest corner of Exposition Park to Downtown Los Angeles only by adding a couple of trees and repainting the crosswalks, I’ll be extremely disappointed. The project team raised expectations by encouraging participants […]

Fair Oaks Corridor Improvement Project Begins in South Pasadena

By Brigham Yen | Jan 24, 2011 | 14 Comments

I have been saying for years that Pasadena needs to give Fair Oaks Ave an extreme pedestrian-cyclist make-over along the street from at least the South Pasadena border (by the Raymond Restaurant) to Old Pasadena. The need for this make-over seems obvious when you consider: 1) Fair Oaks Ave looks like a mini-highway as you […]

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