Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Road Diet

Venice Neighborhood Council Will Discuss Main Street Road Diet/Bike Lanes Tomorrow

By Damien Newton | Sep 19, 2011 | 16 Comments

Tomorrow night, the Venice Neighborhood Council will debate, and possibly approve or reject a proposal by the Los Angeles Department of Transportation to remove travel lanes on Main Street in Venice in an effort to calm traffic and create space for bike lanes. The LADOT’s plan for the area would basically match the layout of […]

Eyes on the Street: Oh, Wilbur…

By Damien Newton | Jun 27, 2011 | 12 Comments

If the newly-restriped .3 mile area of Wilbur Avenue was supposed to be a compromise between the LADOT, City Council Office, advocates of fast moving car traffic, bicyclists and residents, it appears the LADOT put the politics of the situation over the road diet ahead of responsible engineering. Glenn Bailey, a mayoral appointee to the […]

Chalk on the Ground, Bike Lanes in the Gutter, Faster Cars: A Wilbur Ave. Update

By Damien Newton | Jun 15, 2011 | 7 Comments

When we last checked in on the embattled Wilbur Avenue Road Diet, Councilman Greig Smith had ordered asked the LADOT to move forward with a “compromise” proposal that would maintain continuous bike lanes along the 2.3 mile diet but would return the northern .3 miles of the old diet to a four lane road. The […]

Wilbur Road Diet Debate Reaches Its Conclusion, Again

By Damien Newton | Apr 8, 2011 | 4 Comments

The heated debate over the Wilbur Road diet is back in the news as Councilman Greig Smith has asked the LADOT to move forward with a compromise proposal that it presented to a joint meeting of the Northridge West and Porter Ranch Neighborhood Councils last month. The Council’s had sent representatives to a “Wilbur Working […]

Against All Odds, the Wilbur Road Diet Is Staying (for Now)

By Damien Newton | Mar 16, 2011 | 36 Comments

For eight months now, the LADOT has been taking shots in the Valley over the a two mile road diet on Wilbur Avenue. Between Nordhoff and Chatsworth, Wilbur went from two lanes in both directions to one lane in each direction, a left turn lane, and bike lanes on both sides. Last night, representatives of […]

Economics Professor Takes Aim at Bike Lanes at City Watch

By Damien Newton | Mar 14, 2011 | 27 Comments

In last Friday’s City Watch, Cato Institute Adjunct Scholar and economics professor at Cal State University Northridge Dr. Shirley V. Svorny penned, People Who Want More Bike Lanes Need a Reality Check, an attack on on another City Watch piece, What a Difference a Few Years Makes, by Stephen Box. Box’s piece celebrated the passing […]

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