From Streetfilms: Los Angeles — The Great American Transit Experiment
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Clarence Eckerson is back with a look at major transit expansions in the City of Angels.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Los Angeles
As Transit Expands in Los Angeles, Will Walkability Follow?
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L.A. is becoming more compact, but its built environment is still more conducive to driving than to walking and transit.
How Transit Agencies Can Stop Worrying and Love Bus Network Redesigns
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By their nature, bus network redesigns create tradeoffs, so it's important that the improvements feel worth it for riders. And that, says Houston Metro board member Christof Spieler, requires having frank, in-depth conversations with transit riders, not just talking at them.
Can LA Make “Great Streets” If the Mayor Won’t Stand Up for Good Design?
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Los Angeles, with its expanding transit network, is supposed to be in the process of shedding its cocoon of car-centricity and emerging, in the words of a recent Fast Company headline, as America’s “next great walkable city.” The city’s streets, however, didn’t change a whole lot under former mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. When Eric Garcetti was elected mayor in 2013, advocates thought […]
Los Angeles Gets Its First Protected Bike Lanes
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Implementation of the very first parking-protected bike lanes in Los Angeles is underway on Reseda Boulevard in Northridge.
California Has Officially Ditched Car-Centric “Level of Service”
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Ding, dong… LOS is dead. At least as far as the state of California is concerned. Level of Service (LOS) has been the standard by which the state measures the transportation impacts of major developments and changes to streets. It is basically a measurement of how many cars can be pushed through an intersection in a […]