Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Traffic Calming

The Wilbur Avenue Road Diet Controversy Goes Mainstream

By Damien Newton | Oct 13, 2010 | 25 Comments

Let the backlash against sustainable transportation practices begin! Throughout the summer Streetsblog has reported on the Road Diet the LADOT has placed on Wilbur Avenue in the Valley community of Northridge and the backlash the Diet has caused. City Councilman Greig Smith was so incensed that the Diet was placed without community input that he’s […]

Happy Endings: Judge Rules Traffic Calming Measures Put Back in Holmby-Westwood

By Damien Newton | Jul 8, 2010 | 4 Comments

These humps appeared on Selby Avenue. For more images of the removed traffic calming, visit our Flickr page. Yesterday, Judge Robert O’Brien of the Los Angeles Superior Court issued a tentative ruling that traffic calming measures in the Holmby-Westood community that were removed by the LADOT and City Council in the summer of 2009 be […]

Council Moves to Slow Down Traffic in Two Well Off Residential Areas

By Damien Newton | May 27, 2010 | 12 Comments

Speed Humps Installed Surrounding Nine Valley Schools

By Damien Newton | Apr 23, 2010 | 12 Comments

Miranda Chavez, Student Body Vice President for Langdon Elementary, speaks as some other politicians and students look on. Photo: Office of Richard Alarcon City Councilman Richard Alarcon has always been a vocal supporter for traffic calming and safe streets around schools and other places that children congregate. In 2007, he introduced legislation calling for the […]

DIY Goes Legit: Hills Community Wants to Pay for Its Traffic Calming

By Damien Newton | Mar 17, 2010 | 8 Comments

Not exactly the same situation as Northeast L.A. Fed up with speeding traffic zooming through their local street, residents of the well-to-do Mt. Olympus Homeowner’s Association have approached the city with a plan to pay for the speed humps and speed feedback signs that would make a difference in protecting their street from speeding drivers […]

West Hollywood Shows Us How to Use Stimulus Funds to Make a Difference

By Damien Newton | Jan 5, 2010 | 4 Comments

First up for improvements: a before shot of Sunset Plaza. Photo: LA Streetsblog/Flickr Not every transportation reform project needs to bring visionary change to a city to be a good project. Case in point, the beutficiation project recently started on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. Instead of just repaving the road, as is done so […]

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