Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Traffic Calming

Crosswalks As Memorials in Portugal

By Damien Newton | Jan 21, 2009 | 1 Comment

Hat tip to alert reader Jessica Meaney. A video by Portugal’s "Interactive Ninja" demonstrates a unique approach to crosswalk design. In this video. some local activists use some spray paint and stencils to add the names of those pedestrians killed in crashes with cars. The purpose is to both memorialize those who have fallen and […]

City to Help Fix Streets Surrounding the Grove

By Damien Newton | Jan 13, 2009 | No Comments

One of the Faux Streets, Closed to Car Traffic, at the Grove The benefits of having an outdoor cathedral to consumerism located in your neighborhood, even one as pleasant and well-designed as The Grove, are debatable. As part of the deal that brought the Grove to the Mid City West Community, the Grove had to […]

Council Also Advances Sharrows Plan

By Damien Newton | Jul 10, 2008 | 7 Comments

Bike Advocates Discuss Testimony as a TV Crew Looks On While the debate over the Ballona Creek Entrance was the most controversial part of yesterday’s meeting, the content of the meeting was dominated by talk of bringing a greater bicycle emphasis to the city’s Safe Streets to School’s applications to CALTRANS, how best to implement […]

Streetfilms: The Diverter

By Brad Aaron | May 14, 2008 | No Comments

From Streetfilms’ animation division comes the third installment of traffic-calming shorts from Elizabeth Press. First she brought you chicanes, then the raised crosswalk. Now comes the diverter, which Elizabeth explains like so: Diagonal diverters, half closures, entrance barriers, median barriers, semi-diverters; traffic calming techniques come in all shapes and sizes. They can help create more […]

Colored Bike Lanes Come to Tempe

By Damien Newton | Mar 25, 2008 | 2 Comments

This Vancouver Street Shows Two Bike Amenities We Should See in L.A.: Bike Boxes and Colored Lanes Los Angeles cyclists, long jealous of the bike amenities in Portland, Vancouver and cities throughout Europe, can add a new city to the list of those thinking more progressively about bike facilities: the City of Tempe. The smallish city […]

Celebrating Bimini Place

By Damien Newton | Mar 20, 2008 | No Comments

Council President Eric Garcetti, department heads from the Department of Public Works, CALTRANS, LADOT and Metro joined the community surrounding Bimini Place and the Los Angeles Eco-Village to celebrate the completion of the East Hollywood Shared Street Project.

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