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Topic Archive: Mobility
The city of Los Angeles has to complete a thorough environmental impact study before resetting the traffic lights to make parts of Olympic and Pico...
Posted May 5, 2008 02:47 PM
The boulevard is closed to traffic from Harvard to Western, and booths have been put up to celebrate Earth Day with a car-free street festival...
Posted April 22, 2008 11:45 AM
How many private cars, trucks and other vehicles would you guess are registered confidentially in California, able to escape parking tickets, toll road fees and...
Posted April 9, 2008 12:27 AM
I've received a couple of emails from fans who did just fine getting to the Coliseum game on Saturday, by avoiding the Dodger Stadium shuttles....
Posted March 31, 2008 09:41 AM
Take a look at the line for the Dodger Stadium shuttle bus to Saturday's Coliseum game. Jon Weisman blogged that when he left the game...
Posted March 30, 2008 04:35 PM
Last weekend's New York Times did a nice spread on J. Michael Walker and his one-of-a-kind Los Angeles book, "All the Saints of the City...
Posted March 11, 2008 06:40 PM
Slope slides down to the street, knocks out power and pretty much screws traffic in that part of Westwood. LAT Also: Commuting isn't fun on...
Posted March 6, 2008 10:00 AM
In the course of advising Los Angeles what it needs to become a super-city like London, New York or Shanghai, Times architecture critic Christopher...
Posted March 2, 2008 10:21 PM
The newly completed Mid-Wilshire Signal Sync System, bounded by Hollywood Boulevard, Western Avenue, La Cienega Boulevard and Wilshire Boulevard, synchronizes a total of 256 traffic...
Posted February 27, 2008 01:58 PM
With seven residential projects containing 900 units already under construction — and another two dozen projects approved — the most upscale shopping street across the...
Posted February 24, 2008 12:18 PM
Today is when Hollywood and Highland really starts to feel the pain of hosting the Academy Awards for another year. Hollywood Boulevard is set to...
Posted February 18, 2008 03:12 PM
Enough members of the City Council are attending this morning's services for slain LAPD officer Randal Simmons that the regular Friday session was cancelled. TV...
Posted February 15, 2008 12:06 AM
Mayor Villaraigosa told the city DOT today to bar most rush-hour parking as far east as Fairfax and to re-time the lights on Pico to...
Posted February 14, 2008 11:36 PM
Here's a nice little story from writer Mark Evanier's blog, called modestly News From Me. Seems he began teaching a humor writing class at USC...
Posted January 17, 2008 11:12 PM
Gene Maddaus at the Breeze delves into the decision long ago to spend $700 million building the Green Line light rail for 20 miles from...
Posted January 9, 2008 05:27 PM
The Santa Anas are back and the LAFD has declared a red flag day in the hills for Wednesday. Those who live there know what...
Posted November 27, 2007 11:40 PM
Larry Mantle this morning took on one of the lesser issues of our time, but one that's still interesting and perplexing for locals: should we...
Posted November 13, 2007 12:41 PM
Sue Doyle compiles her realities of driving for the Daily News, and some are just so true: If you're waiting behind cars in a left-turn...
Posted November 8, 2007 09:34 AM
CityBeat columnist Alan Mittelstaedt FOI'd the chancellor of UC Irvine trying to find out who pressured him to un-hire Erwin Chemerinsky as dean of the...
Posted November 7, 2007 11:25 PM
A new book released this week, The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World, describes a wild cross-country drive...
Posted October 17, 2007 10:48 AM
* 8 am update: Lanes were open in both directions this morning. Caltrans district chief Douglas Failing said the southbound lanes of the freeway would...
Posted October 15, 2007 12:13 AM
Don't plan on sailing in or out of Los Angeles on Interstate 5 (or the Antelope Freeway, for that matter) any time soon. Last night's...
Posted October 13, 2007 04:03 PM
Richard S. Chang, writing in today's New York Times Wheels section about the pleasures of driving a stick shift: I was living in Los Angeles....
Posted October 4, 2007 10:38 PM
Transportation planners get mounds of daily data from all the sensors installed beneath Los Angeles streets, but they throw it all away after a few...
Posted September 30, 2007 11:31 PM
In response to today's Breeze article on new computerized traffic signals across the South Bay, an LA Observed reader wrote to the Breeze reporter, Gene...
Posted September 18, 2007 08:14 PM
All those residential and commercial developments that planners and politicians like to promote near transit lines make getting around harder, since most occupants choose to...
Posted July 1, 2007 11:28 PM
It's illegal to turn right onto La Brea from Clinton Avenue during rush hour, and so many Hollywood traffic cops lie in wait that it...
Posted June 21, 2007 11:50 AM
Highway crews and flagmen working on the widening of California 138 across the Mojave Desert have taken so much physical abuse from motorists that the...
Posted June 6, 2007 10:03 PM
Franklin Avenue spotted handwritten signs today on 6th Street near the mayor's mansion in Windsor Square posted to beseech drivers, Burma Shave-style, to SLOW... THE......
Posted June 4, 2007 06:09 PM
Scaffolding has been spotted around the vacant stores at the northeast corner of Wilshire and Barrington, alerting tipster Doug that his commute through the habitually...
Posted May 7, 2007 11:42 PM
Another Gran Marcha to support immigrants begins Tuesday morning at Broadway and Olympic, moves north on Broadway starting at 10 am, and heads to City...
Posted April 30, 2007 08:13 AM
John Stodder was one of the smart ones who got to Dodger Stadium early yesterday and was able to observe the mess with somewhat detached...
Posted April 10, 2007 09:50 AM
President Bush has an evening fundraiser in Brentwood, there are accidents on both sides of the 405 near Wilshire, and the northbound Pasadena is backed...
Posted April 4, 2007 05:05 PM
Film director Bob Clark and his son Ariel were killed in the crash that kept Pacific Coast Highway closed through the Palisades during today's morning...
Posted April 4, 2007 12:56 PM
With this year's new L.A. Marathon route, a lot of people are going to head out Sunday and run into street closures. The map and...
Posted March 2, 2007 08:06 AM
Squeaky wheels do get the grease, it turns out. The state transportation commission rethought its earlier decision to leave the freeway out of the spending...
Posted February 26, 2007 05:20 PM
Pasadena keeps the Rose Parade route open to the public pretty much until show time. Ditto for the Los Angeles Marathon. But for some reason,...
Posted February 20, 2007 01:46 AM
Throttle Jockey columnist Susan Carpenter walks, talks and rides on her video reviews on the Times website. Today's installment covers three-wheeled bikes and scooters and...
Posted February 14, 2007 11:59 AM
A crane that fell onto the northbound San Diego Freeway just before the Ventura Freeway in Sherman Oaks about 1 pm has the area a...
Posted February 2, 2007 03:27 PM
Michael Dukakis's campaign to free Westwood of the plague of apron parking — parking in driveways so as to obstruct sidewalks, for the uninitiated —...
Posted January 29, 2007 02:25 AM
Protesters against the Iraq war will assemble at noon tomorrow in front of the Democratic Party headquarters at 9th and Figueroa, then march to the...
Posted January 26, 2007 03:12 PM
→ The Times' Robin Abcarian is filing video updates (left) from Sundance on LATimes.com. → Variety's Gabriel Snyder is jumping to the Los Angeles bureau...
Posted January 22, 2007 12:59 PM
Free today at WSJ.com, economists Peter Gordon of USC and Matthew Kahn of UCLA discuss the costs of traffic congestion: "the problem it poses --...
Posted January 18, 2007 02:58 PM
One of the traffic engineers being arraigned today for shutting down four intersections on the day that EAA went out on strike was featured last...
Posted January 8, 2007 10:24 AM
What a story. Two high-ranking city traffic engineers, Gabriel Murillo and Kartik Patel, were charged Friday with breaking into the city's automated traffic system and...
Posted January 6, 2007 09:32 AM
I won't repeat my rantlet (and here) about casual abuse of the word 'gridlock' by local media and pols. Just check out this photo of...
Posted January 5, 2007 11:08 AM
Meant to re-post this oldie but goodie from 2004 for New Year's. On Dec. 31, 1897, a cameraman for Thomas Edison shot movie footage of...
Posted January 3, 2007 02:00 PM
You can ride the buses, Red Line and light rail lines for free from 9 pm Dec. 24 to 2 am on Christmas morning. The...
Posted December 23, 2006 12:10 PM
Laura Mecoy, the Sacramento Bee's Los Angeles reporter, weighs in today with a longish piece on L.A. transit pegged to the revived talk of a...
Posted December 14, 2006 11:43 AM
Brief history lesson and somewhat optimistic view of the future from The Economist: In the past 15 years the city has gradually built a skeletal...
Posted December 8, 2006 11:26 AM
LA Observed contributor Cari Beauchamp posts at Native Intelligence on the frustration of trying to wrestle answers about her cable service from the voice(s) on...
Posted December 5, 2006 05:13 PM
Michael Dukakis, the Democratic candidate for president in 1988, lives in Westwood's North Village during his part-time teaching gigs at UCLA. For two years, the...
Posted November 30, 2006 01:24 AM
Item: A big rig rig on the northbound I-5 struck and killed a pedestrian this afternoon near Zoo Drive in the Griffith Park area. Two...
Posted November 27, 2006 03:22 PM
Germany recognizes 648 valid traffic symbols, but all that instruction can leave drivers confused or, perversely, encourage them to drive unsafely. Now seven cities in...
Posted November 20, 2006 11:53 AM
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky says he's actively looking for support to put a county executive initiative on next year's ballot. Voters have rejected the idea of...
Posted November 17, 2006 05:00 PM
Veronique de Turenne gives bicyclists their space on Pacific Coast Highway, but asks the same in return. "Share the road, you arrogant cyclists. Sure, it's...
Posted November 14, 2006 01:42 PM
Just last September John Catoe withdrew from consideration for the top transit job in Atlanta to remain with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Now today's Washington...
Posted November 14, 2006 11:37 AM
Mixed in among the nine-hour parking meters on Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica, TJ Sullivan found a stretch of nine-minute signs. It pays to check...
Posted November 3, 2006 04:54 PM
Filming for Live Free or Die Hard has been postponed a couple of days, so the production won't be shutting down Imperial Highway beside LAX...
Posted November 2, 2006 10:38 AM
Live Free or Die Hard received the permits it wanted and will be disrupting traffic in El Segundo and the south side of LAX starting...
Posted October 30, 2006 06:26 PM
U.S. District Judge Terry Hatter ruled today that a ten-year-old legal agreement with the Bus Riders Union that prodded the MTA to spend $1.3 billion...
Posted October 25, 2006 03:27 PM
The worst is over on the southbound San Diego Freeway between Sunset Boulevard and the Santa Monica Freeway. After more than a year of orange...
Posted October 24, 2006 10:57 AM
Mayor Villaraigosa returned to City Hall today almost giddy from his fortnight in Asia. Flanked by twenty fellow travelers, the mayor met the media this...
Posted October 23, 2006 05:22 PM
It just gets worse. Besides the major sporting events that will overlap, officials are warning that the LA Weekly's Detour Festival in the Civic Center...
Posted October 6, 2006 02:21 AM
UCLA has revised the traffic alert for this afternoon that I called unhelpfully vague yesterday. They still won't say that the president is the reason...
Posted October 3, 2006 12:57 PM
The president of these here United States is going to be on the Westside again tomorrow for a Republican fundraiser. UCLA has given its folks...
Posted October 2, 2006 04:47 PM
As of yesterday, the city of Santa Monica is seeking out people who overpaid on parking tickets to give them refunds. The city has collected...
Posted October 2, 2006 11:09 AM
Times critic Christopher Hawthorne welcomes the revived interest in tunneling a subway under Wilshire Boulevard all the way to the ocean. He writes today about...
Posted September 27, 2006 08:20 AM
The most meaningful stat in the Times' Sunday page one story about the Westside's awful traffic is that it takes an average of nineteen minutes...
Posted August 28, 2006 01:04 AM
For his interview on today's "Morning Edition," How To Live Well Without Owning A Car author Chris Balish took the Metro bus to Venice Boulevard...
Posted August 15, 2006 11:13 AM
The weekly Highway 1 section in the Los Angeles Times always skews toward the few who are buying a vehicle and usually has little if...
Posted July 20, 2006 11:23 AM
Members of Southern California Transit Advocates like to challenge themselves — and explore the region — by taking long group excursions on public transit. They...
Posted July 14, 2006 12:09 PM
If you watch traffic maps online or listen to radio reports, the earliest freeway snarls are often out in western Riverside County where commuters get...
Posted July 14, 2006 10:08 AM
Red-light cameras will be turned on in August at two intersections, LADOT officials said today. The first two corners where tickets will be issued are...
Posted July 10, 2006 03:02 PM
Tales about riding Metro Rail and buses make up a growing subset of the L.A. blogosphere. Doc on the Train is written by a resident...
Posted July 6, 2006 11:05 AM
Los Angeles airport chief Lydia Kennard today described $1.2 billion worth of coming improvements to LAX: an expanded Bradley International Terminal, realignment of the southernmost...
Posted June 29, 2006 09:23 PM
The Daily News' Mariel Garza blogs about the physical effects of trading her car for the bus this month. I have two blisters on my...
Posted June 29, 2006 09:36 AM
My favorite reads of the week have been Thomas Curwen's musings on Los Angeles and the automobile in the Times' commemorative issue of the Highway...
Posted June 22, 2006 03:56 PM
After two weeks of riding the MTA, Daily News columnist and editorial writer Mariel Garza blogs that she drove her car. "I need to drive...
Posted June 16, 2006 09:46 AM
At 4 pm, Mayor Villaraigosa will emcee the ceremonial rollout of his Gridlock Tiger Team on Wilshire between Normandie and Ardmore. The office all but...
Posted June 5, 2006 12:52 PM
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