Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Pedestrian Safety

De-Uglifying Hollywood: How to Make Our City Pedestrian-Friendly

By Alexander Friedman | Nov 15, 2012 | 53 Comments

Tourists arriving in Hollywood from all over the world are fascinated, at first. The Walk of Fame, historic Hollywood and Vine, glamorous Hollywood & Highland shopping center and Grauman’s theater – all of these attractions make an impression… …Unless you deviate a block or two. Once you accidentally leave the tourist area, real Los Angeles […]

Stopping by a Crash on a Balmy Evening…

By Sahra Sulaiman | Oct 17, 2012 | 17 Comments

Fountain Ave. seemed unusually crushed, even at rush hour. As I rode up the hill towards Hyperion, the cars parted and I saw a woman lying on the ground in front of a white compact car. She was clutching her leg and crying. And she was all alone. Lying in the street. It was bizarre. […]

For Universal City, It’s a Bridge Not Far Enough

By Damien Newton | Aug 14, 2012 | 28 Comments

As the local media focuses on this morning’s hearing on the NBC Universal Evolution project, there’s another project that impacts the area. The proposed pedestrian bridge crossing Lankershim Boulevard and Campo de Cahuenga as part of an eighteen year old Memorandum of Understanding will cost $19 million, but questions remain on whether the bridge is […]

Signalized Crosswalk Coming for Sunset and Vista

By Damien Newton | Jun 22, 2012 | 8 Comments

Back in March, a video by Adam Choit showed pedestrians struggling to cross Sunset Boulevard at Vista Street went locally viral. Not content for this video to just serve as a rallying call for better streets in a larger sense, Deborah Murphy forwarded the video to executives at LADOT witha request that the intersection be […]

First Look at Farmer’s Field Traffic EIR: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

By Damien Newton | Apr 5, 2012 | 13 Comments

Earlier today, AEG announced the completion of the first draft of environmental documents for Farmers Field, the proposed football stadium for Downtown Los Angeles. The document, available on City Planning’s website, is a mammoth 10,000 pages and the ceremonial handing over of the documents to the city at today’s event involved 13 overflowing three ring […]

It’s Past Time To Abandon the Argument That Crosswalks Make Streets More Dangerous

By Damien Newton | Mar 21, 2012 | 19 Comments

A video by Adam Choit has been making the round on the Internet this week making the case for a crosswalk installation somewhere between Gardner and Pointsettia Streets on Sunset Boulevard. There is no crosswalk between the two named streets on Sunset, creating well over a quarter of a mile of five lane road with […]

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