Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Pedestrian Safety

What to Do About Fifth and Flower?

By Damien Newton | Jan 16, 2009 | 15 Comments

Today in City Watch, Stephen Box talk about the need to improve pedestrian safety for everyone, cyclists, pedestrians and drivers. On Tuesday, Box and I did a tour of the intersection of 5th and Flower, the intersection where Gwendolyn Coleman had been struck and killed by a DASH bus while legally crossing the street a week […]

Planning Comission Approves New Pedestrian Plan for Downtown

By Damien Newton | Jan 12, 2009 | 1 Comment

The Planned New Genesis Apartments Will Comply with New Proposed Pedestrian Standards The LA Downtown News reports that Downtown Los Angeles will be getting a major pedestrian makeover. Last week, the Planning Commission approved changes to developers requirements that will bring wide, tree-lined sidewalks, landscaped courtyards, more streetlights and other pedestrian amenities to Downtown Los […]

Streetfilms: Introducing the Pedestrian Peek-a-Boo

By Damien Newton | Jan 12, 2009 | 7 Comments

What if I told you that there was an easy way to improve pedestrian safety at low cost to the city? How about if I told you that this pedestrian improvement could also make space for streetscaping or bike parking? You’d probably be ready to start the campaign to get them installed on Los Angeles’ […]

Streetfilms: First Graders Show Us How to Share the Road

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Dec 16, 2008 | 1 Comment

How’s this for understanding modal harmony? Livable Streets Education has been working with New York City students, encouraging them to explore and question the environments around their schools and in their neighborhoods — and to voice the changes they want to see on their streets. We recently asked first graders at P.S. 87 to give […]

Wannabe Rapper Beats, Runs Over, Kills Pedestrian Advocate

By Damien Newton | Dec 1, 2008 | 6 Comments

Pianist and car-free advocate John Osnes left his favorite bar in Hollywood one night in mid-November. He waived to the bartender and promised he would be back the next day. However, instead he was savagely beaten and quite probably intentionally run over by a wanna-be Swedish rapper named David Moses Jassy, who is probably still […]

LA Gets Diagonal Crosswalks (again)

By Damien Newton | Nov 7, 2008 | 5 Comments

Last Spring when Steetfilms came to town, we talked with Urban Planner Deborah Murphy about some of the challenges pedestrians and pedestrian advocates face in Los Angeles. Today, we wanted to highlight one of the innovative things that LADOT is doing to make pedestrians lives safer and easier in Los Angeles. Clarence Eckerson explains: In […]

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