Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Road Diet

Formal Appeal Filed Against MyFigueroa! Streetscape Project by Auto Dealerships

By Damien Newton | Sep 24, 2013 | 13 Comments

It’s not quite a series of scribbles by Eli Broad, but the formal appeal of the MyFigueroa! Project, also known as the South Figueroa Streetscape Project, by Darryl Holter of the Shammus Auto Group is so half-baked, it’s hard to believe that anyone would take it seriously. The two-page hand-written complaint contains no new information […]

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 […]

Bikelash on Motor Avenue Bike Lanes? Palms Neighborhood Council, Koretz Will Get an Earful Tonight

By Damien Newton | Nov 7, 2012 | 13 Comments

Amidst all the election news comes word that there is a small Bikelash brewing on the Westside from residents worried that the diet is creating spillover traffic jams on other local streets. The good news is that the proposed solutions seem to be about improving traffic calming measures on the streets parallel to Motor Avenue. […]

Economic Review of York Boulevard Road Diet Shows Bike Lanes Don’t Cause Loss of Business

By Damien Newton | Sep 25, 2012 | 8 Comments

A recent report by Cullen McCormick uses a road diet in Northeast Los Angeles as a case study to examine the economic impacts of reducing mixed-use travel lanes and increasing bicycle lanes. Despite the traditional opposition of local businesses when diets are proposed in front of their stores, McCormick’s case study finds there was little […]

It’s Official. Main Street in Venice Is on a Diet.

By Damien Newton | Jan 30, 2012 | 1 Comment

The first time I biked down Main Street in Santa Monica and then into the Venice Neighborhood of Los Angeles was the summer of 2008. I was following Santa Monica Critical Mass and part of the comically over-aggressive antics of the SMPD included herding cyclists into the lane by buzzing groups of cyclists on motorcycles and […]

Venice Neighborhood Council Approves LADOT Plan for Main Street Road Diet, Bike Lanes

By Damien Newton | Sep 21, 2011 | 4 Comments

Last night, the Venice Neighborhood Council agreed to the Main Street Road Diet/Bike Lanes plan proposed by LADOT. The new road striping ought to be on the ground “in the next couple of weeks.” Despite its approval, the Neighborhood Council had some concerns with the project and wanted LADOT to return with more safety measures […]

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