Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Pedestrian Safety

Blumenauer, Bipartisan Co-Sponsors Set Out to Improve Street Safety Metrics

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 15, 2013 | No Comments

After a long period of inaction on Capitol Hill, the wheels are beginning to turn again. Lawmakers introduced not one but two good transportation-related bills yesterday: one that aims to improve the safety of walking and biking and one that would establish a national infrastructure bank. We’ll get into the infrastructure bank bill in a […]

The Movement Against the Highway Friendly Redesign of Hyperion Grows

By Damien Newton | Oct 8, 2013 | 7 Comments

Garcetti, LaBonge and O’Farrell promote the redesign and ask for public comment. It started as a note from contacts at the Bicycle Coalition (LACBC), turned into a mini-series on Streetsblog and now the movement to stop the redesign of the Hyperion-Glendale Complex of Bridges that would turn one of the region’s most iconic structures into […]

The Looming Disaster of the Hyperion-Glendale Bridges Re-Design

By Damien Newton | Sep 27, 2013 | 6 Comments

Earlier this week, Streetsblog published an article about how the Hyperion-Glendale Complex of Bridges Rehabilitation Project was giving short shrift to bicyclists and pedestrians and everyone that lived in the area. At the time, based on information provided to us by the Bureau of Engineering, I assumed that the issue could be resolved by arguing […]

New Plans for Hyperion-Glendale Crossing Don’t Include Bike Lanes, Wide Sidewalks

By Damien Newton | Sep 24, 2013 | 21 Comments

The City of Los Angeles is moving plans to replace the Glendale Boulevard-Hyperion Avenue Complex of Bridges over the Los Angeles River near Hollywood and Atwater Village. You can read the full EIR, here. The Glendale-Hyperion Viaduct complex consists of the following structures: Hyperion Avenue Bridge over the Los Angeles River, Hyperion Avenue Bridge over Riverside Drive, […]

By the Numbers: Counting Bikes and Pedestrians in Watts

By Sahra Sulaiman | Sep 11, 2013 | 7 Comments

As the cloud of sarin gas descended on the scene, party-goers once happily doing the Carlton dance were suddenly writhing on the ground in agony. Huh? I rolled over and looked at the clock. It was 4 a.m. Thanks, NPR, for invading my weird retro dream. I rubbed my eyes and stumbled toward my coffee […]

LADOT Plans for Bike Lanes, Improved Crossings and Road Diet on Virgil Avenue

By Damien Newton | Sep 10, 2013 | 5 Comments

Tonight, the LADOT will present a proposal for a half mile of bike lanes and road diet on Virgil Avenue between Melrose Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard. Currently, Virgil Avenue has four mixed-use travel lanes, two parking lanes, and sidewalks. After the diet, there will be two mixed-use lanes, a turn lane, two 5 foot […]

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