Editorial: Is L.A. getting serious about safer streets?
2 years, 7 months ago

Editorial: Is L.A. getting serious about safer streets?

LA Times  

A pedestrian in Los Angeles avoids a sidewalk badly in need of repair at the 2300 block of Griffith Park Boulevard in November 2021. Seven years ago Los Angeles adopted Mobility Plan 2035, an ambitious road map to make city streets more bikeable, walkable and safer over two decades. The groups began collecting signatures for the Healthy Streets LA ballot measure that would require the city to add the promised bus, bike and pedestrian improvements whenever streets are repaved. Her motion, backed by four council colleagues, would direct the city attorney to write an ordinance based on the ballot measure that would require that city departments add mobility plan improvements when streets are resurfaced. Yes, it’s frustrating that residents had to organize a ballot measure campaign to prod city leaders to carry out their own mobility plan.

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Letters to the Editor: L.A.’s dangerous sidewalks forced me to abandon public transportation
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: L.A.’s dangerous sidewalks forced me to abandon public transportation

LA Times  

To the editor: I live on Silver Lake Boulevard. Now, because of the poor condition of the sidewalk between Berkeley Avenue and Sunset Boulevard, I either use a ride-sharing service, ask a friend to drive me, or I don’t go. To the editor: If the city of Los Angeles doesn’t have money to fund a capital infrastructure plan, officials should …

Editorial: Why does it have to be so hard to get a speed hump in Los Angeles?
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Editorial: Why does it have to be so hard to get a speed hump in Los Angeles?

LA Times  

What’s the most exclusive, hard-to-get reservation in Los Angeles? We’re referring to the mad rush that happens roughly once a year when the city opens the application window for speed humps. Opinion Editorial: Measure HLA win shows Angelenos really do want walkable, bikeable, safer streets Los Angeles leaders sat on the city’s ambitious Mobility Plan for years, fearing political pushback …

Editorial: Measure HLA win shows Angelenos really do want walkable, bikeable, safer streets
10 months, 1 week ago

Editorial: Measure HLA win shows Angelenos really do want walkable, bikeable, safer streets

LA Times  

A cyclist descends down the 6th Street Viaduct, aka the 6th Street Bridge, which connects the Arts District and the Boyle Heights neighborhoods in downtown Los Angeles. If there was any doubt in Los Angeles City Hall about whether residents actually support bike lanes, bus lanes and other pedestrian and safety improvements on local streets, Tuesday’s election provided a definitive …

Your guide to Los Angeles’ citizen ballot Measure HLA: Mobility plan
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Your guide to Los Angeles’ citizen ballot Measure HLA: Mobility plan

LA Times  

The document — called Mobility Plan 2035 — touches almost every corner of the sprawling city. Among the many projects the plan identifies are protected bike lanes that would run on Sunset and Venice boulevards, and a bus lane connecting Whittier Boulevard in Boyle Heights to 6th Street downtown, then to Wilshire Boulevard west of the 110 Freeway. When it …

Opinion: L.A. resolved to end traffic deaths. So why have they almost doubled?
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: L.A. resolved to end traffic deaths. So why have they almost doubled?

LA Times  

We are now one year away from 2025, when Los Angeles intended to reach zero traffic fatalities, and yet the problem continues to get worse, not better. As LAPD Chief Michel Moore recently said, more people were killed in traffic collisions last year than from murders. In fact, deaths on our roads have nearly doubled since 2015 when the city …

Endorsement: Yes on Measure HLA. Los Angeles needs safer, more bikeable, walkable streets
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Endorsement: Yes on Measure HLA. Los Angeles needs safer, more bikeable, walkable streets

LA Times  

Derrick Lewis visits a memorial for his mother-in-law, Trina Newman-Townsend, who was struck and killed by a driver on Dec. 24, 2022, on South Broadway in Los Angeles. That includes the city’s Mobility Plan 2035, an ambitious transportation vision adopted by the City Council and then-Mayor Eric Garcetti in 2015 that committed to redesigning streets over two decades to make …

The future of L.A. streets is on the March ballot
1 year ago

The future of L.A. streets is on the March ballot

LA Times  

Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. Schneider, a former startup founder, said he was so frustrated with the city’s slow pace of progress that he went for the “nuclear option” — a ballot measure making the planned roadwork mandatory. “It’s something entirely different when you’re radically changing the streets that millions of …

A workable, sustainable mobility agenda for 2024 for Bengaluru
1 year ago

A workable, sustainable mobility agenda for 2024 for Bengaluru

The Hindu  

A brand new year is upon us, and yet, Bengaluru’s mobility agenda remains chaotic and clueless as ever. It should put together a comprehensive mobility plan, with accountability from all the delivery agencies including the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation, Bangalore Development Authority and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike,” he elaborates. If the BMLTA comes in as a regulator, it has …

Opinion: L.A. doesn’t need ‘Watch your speed’ signs. It needs safer roads
1 year, 1 month ago

Opinion: L.A. doesn’t need ‘Watch your speed’ signs. It needs safer roads

LA Times  

At West 43rd Street and South Broadway in Los Angeles, sidewalks now extend farther into the street, a design change intended to slow traffic and protect pedestrians. In 2021, after Monique Muñoz was killed on Olympic Boulevard at Overland Avenue by a driver going more than 100 miles per hour, the city placed a “Watch your speed” sign, politely asking …

Editorial: Culver City, don’t roll back your ambitious safe street redesign
1 year, 8 months ago

Editorial: Culver City, don’t roll back your ambitious safe street redesign

LA Times  

A cyclist rides in a new bike lane in November 2021. Move Culver City is a new initiative that reconfigures pedestrian, traffic, bus and bicycle lanes in downtown Culver City to reduce congestion and emissions. In the heart of its downtown, near restaurants, apartments, studios and government offices and the Expo Line, Culver City removed car lanes in each direction …

Opinion: Cars don’t have to rule Culver City, or the future of L.A. transit
1 year, 8 months ago

Opinion: Cars don’t have to rule Culver City, or the future of L.A. transit

LA Times  

On April 24, the Culver City Council is expected to vote on the controversial mobility project Move Culver City, a pilot of protected bus and bike lanes put in place during the pandemic along a 1.3-mile downtown corridor. However, if the city votes to take down the project — an outcome that seems likely given a new, more conservative majority …

The ‘freedom’ and hazards of commuting by bike in L.A.
1 year, 10 months ago

The ‘freedom’ and hazards of commuting by bike in L.A.

LA Times  

Cyclist Tom Morash lies in the street after being hit by a Postal Service truck. Tom’s online moniker formed as he got more involved in Bike Twitter and noticed a widespread “attitude that drivers have towards cyclists as being entitled.” Then his penchant for sarcasm kicked in. This is ALSO a bike lane pic.twitter.com/hPBkIPEUxW — Entitled Cyclist🚲 August 1, 2020 …

Opinion: Can L.A take back its streets so kids can bike safely?
1 year, 10 months ago

Opinion: Can L.A take back its streets so kids can bike safely?

LA Times  

Early in the pandemic, when many were staying home and streets were quiet, children played in the street in Redondo Beach. While larger vehicles are one factor, the built environment — the way we use our street space — hasn’t changed much to accommodate other modes of transportation. Our city is full of larger cars driving faster than ever, which …

Traffic violence continues to surge in L.A. Why can’t (or won’t) we make streets safer?
1 year, 11 months ago

Traffic violence continues to surge in L.A. Why can’t (or won’t) we make streets safer?

LA Times  

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. New York City, with more than double L.A.’s population, not only had fewer traffic deaths per capita last year, but also fewer deaths overall than L.A. — 247, according to that city’s data. “Nearly 10% of all traffic deaths nationwide occur in California,” said Tim Wiesberg, a spokesperson for the state’s …

L.A. voters to consider ballot plan to add bike lanes, bus lanes, other safety measures
2 years, 4 months ago

L.A. voters to consider ballot plan to add bike lanes, bus lanes, other safety measures

LA Times  

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to send a measure to the ballot to speed up the installation of bike routes, bus lanes and other transportation projects aimed at making the city safer and more welcoming for bicyclists, pedestrians and bus riders. “We need to make sure that the neighborhoods that have gone without are invested in first.” The …

Commentary: Another deadly car crash. We can’t keep waiting for safer streets
2 years, 5 months ago

Commentary: Another deadly car crash. We can’t keep waiting for safer streets

LA Times  

It’s been a little more than a week, but the wreckage and horror of a fiery fatal crash in Windsor Hills are still on my mind. In 2015, Los Angeles adopted an ambitious 20-year plan to design and build streets to make it safer and easier for people to bike, walk and take public transit. Frustrated that L.A. leaders have …

The ‘nuclear option’ in L.A.’s war to rein in the mighty car, make streets safe
2 years, 5 months ago

The ‘nuclear option’ in L.A.’s war to rein in the mighty car, make streets safe

LA Times  

Bicyclists chat on a stretch of Griffith Park Drive that has been indefinitely closed to cars to improve safety after a cyclist’s death in April. Los Angeles City Clerk Holly Wolcott cleared the way this week for a 2024 voter initiative that fast tracks the city’s own ambitious traffic plan to create hundreds of miles of more walkable and bikeable …

Commentary: L.A.’s promise for safer streets has stalled. But a ballot measure could restart the mobility plan
2 years, 11 months ago

Commentary: L.A.’s promise for safer streets has stalled. But a ballot measure could restart the mobility plan

LA Times  

In 2015, the Los Angeles City Council adopted an ambitious new transportation plan that called for adding hundreds of miles of bus-only lanes and protected bike lanes, along with sidewalk and streetscape improvements across the city. The Mobility Plan 2035 was designed to make L.A.’s car-dominated streets safer and more inviting for pedestrians, bicyclists and transit users over 20 years. …

Buscaino wants L.A. voters to decide whether to bar homeless encampments in public spaces
3 years, 4 months ago

Buscaino wants L.A. voters to decide whether to bar homeless encampments in public spaces

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino, pictured in June in Venice, says he wants voters to decide how the city responds to sidewalk homeless encampments. Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino has begun laying the groundwork for a ballot measure that would prohibit people from sleeping or camping on sidewalks and other public spaces if they have turned down offers …

My friend was killed riding a bike. He wanted cities built for people, not cars
3 years, 9 months ago

My friend was killed riding a bike. He wanted cities built for people, not cars

LA Times  

This is the April 15, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. When he visited Los Angeles last year — days before the pandemic’s first stay-at-home orders — he kept me updated on his enthusiastic use of the city’s public transit systems, including taking a bus across …

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