Coronavirus Updates

In an ongoing effort to support citywide COVID-19 response efforts, LADOT is focusing its resources at this time on essential COVID-related requests and critical safety concerns. If you have a COVID related service request, you can visit our updated services portal.

Examples of COVID related items include requests for a passenger loading zone near a healthcare facility or temporary no parking signs near a grocery store or restaurant with a drive-thru to ease congestion. Examples of critical safety concerns include traffic crashes or urgent pedestrian crossing issues. 

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During the past several weeks, in order to fight the spread of COVID-19, LADOT has deactivated pedestrian push buttons in city neighborhoods with high volumes of pedestrian activity. Affected intersections now feature automatic walk cycles, which operate without the need for pedestrians to press crosswalk buttons and risk contamination. Initially rolled out in downtown Los Angeles and then implemented in Hollywood, Westlake, and MacArthur Park, LADOT has now also made the conversion to automatic, non-button pedestrian signals at intersections in Chinatown and Koreatown.

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In an ongoing effort to support citywide COVID-19 response efforts, LADOT is focusing its resources at this time on essential COVID-related requests and critical safety concerns.

Examples of COVID related items include requests for a passenger loading zone near a healthcare facility or temporary no parking signs near a grocery store or restaurant wfith a drive-thru to ease congestion. Examples of critical safety concerns include traffic crashes or urgent pedestrian crossing issues. 

Visit our Service Requests page for instructions on how to file various types of requests…

To encourage safer driving across the city, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation has adjusted signals across the City to “nighttime mode.” As people are ordered to stay at home, traffic volumes have significantly decreased. The good news is that traffic and air quality have significantly improved. The bad news is that empty streets seem to encourage some Angelenos to speed dangerously through the City. 

 LADOT operates the most advanced signal synchronization system in the world, which means that typically, signals are coordinated automatically to help ease…

UPDATE: Regular parking enforcement has resumed. For regulations regarding parking visit ladotparking.org

Effective Friday, April 3, LADOT will not issue citations on vehicles displaying a recently-expired annual or visitor permit within the corresponding Preferential Parking District. This grace period will extend for two weeks after the expiration of a permit. LADOT will also email a two-week, temporary parking permit free-of-charge to be printed at home for those that have renewed their annual or visitor permit online but may not receive them…

In response to the impacts of COVID-19, LADOT has temporarily reduced its transit services until further notice. The service modifications affect Commuter Express, DASH Downtown, Community DASH, and LAnow.

LAnow service was suspended on Monday, March 30, and Commuter Express and Community DASH will begin modified services on Thursday, April 2. DASH Community routes will see no buses removed from service or changes in frequency during operation hours, but will shift to a compressed schedule to operate between 7 a.m. and  6 p.m. rather than the current 6 a.m. to…

This past week, as part of the effort to combat the spread of COVID-19, LADOT deactivated pedestrian push buttons in downtown Los Angeles. Affected intersections now feature automatic “Walk” cycles that operate without the need for pedestrians to press crosswalk buttons, a feature that will be expanded to intersections in Hollywood, Westlake, and MacArthur Park by the end of this week, and which LADOT will explore as an option for additional areas in the coming weeks. Currently, modifications of this type must be performed individually by LADOT engineers. Because of this, areas with high…

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation is dedicated to serving Angelenos during this unprecedented crisis. LADOT traffic officers have been deployed to ensure that our city's children receive their nutritious meals safely and efficiently during the temporary closure of schools.

LAUSD is providing up to two meals per day per child on weekdays as part of their Grab n' Go food assistance program while schools are closed. You can find more information about the program at achieve.lausd.net/resources.

March 23, 2020

LADOT is taking critical steps to ensure the health and safety of Angelenos and our workforce during the global COVID-19 public health crisis while keeping essential services in our city moving. For details regarding services provided by LADOT during the COVID-19 crises, please see our COVID-19 fact sheet above.

In keeping with the Mayor’s COVID-19 Guidelines and Directives, all Development Services Departments will be directing customers to utilize online services for plan filing/intake, fee payment, consultations, permit clearance and issuance and inspection. Please review the following memo for updated information on LADOT's Development Services Counters.