Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Traffic Calming

Santa Monicans React to Controversy Over Narrowed Ocean Park Blvd.

By Damien Newton | Aug 31, 2009 | 1 Comment

Photo: Brandon Wise/Daily Press Alert Reader Johnathon Weiss pointed me to a story in the Santa Monica Daily Press, and posted on the Times’ LA Now Blog, about the impact the narrowing of Ocean Park Boulevard on traffic and safety in Santa Monica. In 2007, after a series of crashes involving cars and pedestrians, the […]

There Are Opponents to Highway Crash Memorials?

By Damien Newton | Aug 10, 2009 | 54 Comments

Photo: salon.com The California State Assembly recently passed legislation that will allow the family of victims of highway crashes to pay Caltrans to erect signs memorializing the fallen and reminding drivers to drive safely. However, thanks to opposition from a group of what the Times terms "environmentalists," the legislation is actually watered down so that […]

Council Transportation Committee Moves to Remove Traffic Calming

By Damien Newton | May 6, 2009 | 6 Comments

Endangered in Westwood. At an early morning meeting, scheduled for 8:30 A.M. but not starting until close to 9:00, of the Los Angeles City Council Transportation Committee, both sides in the contentious debate over the fate of temporary traffic calming measures placed in near the Palazzo development in Westwood. The battle between the Holmby-Westwood community […]

Council Considers (Again) Removing Traffic Calming in Westwood

By Damien Newton | May 5, 2009 | 4 Comments

Traffic calming prevents left turns at corner of Hilgard and Lindbrook Nearly a month ago, we discussed the efforts of local Councilman Jack Weiss and the LADOT to remove three temporary traffic calming measures that were placed on streets surrounding the Palazzo development to mitigate traffic on the streets surrounding the large, mixed-use development. Before […]

Coming Soon to a Street Near You: Speed Limit Increases!

By Damien Newton | Apr 9, 2009 | 7 Comments

Photo of Zelzah Ave. in Granada Hills, one of four roads that will be seeing a speed limit increase in the near future. Via Daily News Yesterday, three-fifths of the City Council Transportation Committee met to discuss the proposed speed limit increases for four stretches of roads in the Valley. Sue Doyle of the Daily […]

Holmby-Westwood Furious at Jack Weiss’ Plan to Remove Traffic Calming

By Damien Newton | Apr 7, 2009 | 15 Comments

Photo of Palazzo by Matthew Correia via LA Urban Design Studio Westwood residents are furious with Councilman Jack Weiss and the LADOT over a resolution appearing on tomorrow’s City Council Transportation Committee Agenda which would strip traffic calming off of local streets that were placed in February of 2008 as a "pilot program." The Holmby-Westwood […]

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