LADOT News

This past weekend, LADOT Transit launched service improvements to DASH Route D and Route E in downtown Los Angeles as the next step in the phased implementation of the LADOT New Service Plan (formerly Transit Service Analysis), which follows from the Los Angeles City Council’s adoption of the LADOT New Service Plan in 2018 to identify and prioritize service enhancements, new Community DASH routes, and the LAnow service.

Route D in downtown will now run along Broadway south of Olympic Boulevard and end its service at South Grand Avenue...

The Los Angeles City Council adopted a resolution last week to support California State Assembly Bill (AB) 43 that would grant municipalities greater control in setting speed limits on city streets. Currently, the California Vehicle Code requires cities to conduct regular speed surveys to set and enforce speed limits, which are determined by the 85th percentile of driver speeds recorded in the survey. In practice, this process results in streets where speed limits regularly increase with...

Earlier this month, LADOT installed new bus-only lanes on Alvarado Street to improve travel rates and headway consistency for Metro Line 200, a bus route which experiences approximately 12,000 boardings per day. Installed on Alvarado Street between 7th Street and the U.S. 101 Highway, the new bus-only lanes will be in effect during weekdays on the southbound side between 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. and on the northbound side between 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. To designate the new bus-only lanes, LADOT crews installed new street markings,...

LADOT is pleased to invite all members of the public to attend "Walk the Boulevard," an in-person event hosted in collaboration with the office of City Council District 10 Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas that will focus on proposed safety improvements on Adams Boulevard. For details about this event, which will take place this upcoming Saturday, June 26 from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., please click here to sign up for the Adams Safety Project update mailing list.

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LADOT returned traffic signals within the City of Los Angeles to pre-pandemic timing patterns in accordance with the lifting of local and state restrictions on June 15. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Los Angeles underwent a sudden decrease in traffic along with an immense increase in dangerous driving behavior, such as speeding, that put neighborhoods at risk.

In April of 2020, LADOT modified traffic signal patterns to “Night Mode” which helps reduce speeding by eliminating successive green lights along major...

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), in collaboration with LA’s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), held a creative activation to raise safety awareness around the dangers of speeding at the corner of Wilshire and Park View Street in MacArthur Park on Saturday, June 5.

This art activation included 100 traffic “safety turtles” and mascots to highlight and visibly showcase the importance of traffic safety to drivers and passers-by. The performers of the art activation used choreographed movements...

Los Angeles City Planning and LADOT are pleased to announce upcoming public engagement opportunities for the Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Program update.

This past January, Los Angeles City Planning released an informational video and fact sheet about the proposed updates to the TDM Program. Currently, information about the TDM Ordinance and program guidelines are available to the public on the Los Angeles City Planning website. The city will also host two webinars so that interested...

With Memorial Day around the corner — and with it the unofficial start of summer — LADOT remains committed to ensuring the health and safety of all city residents and visitors as they travel around our beautiful city during the summer months. As Los Angeles continues to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, LADOT will continue its support of public health measures, programs that promote transit accessibility, and projects that facilitate safe street environments.

Supporting the city’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts, LADOT...

New red thermoplastic markers were installed on the Figueroa Street bus lane between 8th and 23rd streets this past week as part of a state and federal trial that aims to measure the effects of such markers on the behavior of motorists.

Installed beneath “Bus Lane” markings and at intersection right-turn zones, the new red markers will be observed to determine whether they are as equally effective as entirely red lane spaces with regard to preventing motorists from encroaching into bus lanes. If successful, the thermoplastic...

LADOT joined representatives from LA Metro and the office of Los Angeles City Council District 11 Councilmember Mike Bonin this past week at the E (Expo) Line Station at Exposition Boulevard and Bundy Drive to celebrate the relaunch of the Metro Bike Share program in west Los Angeles. With the reinstallation of 54 Bike Share stations across Los Angeles’ Westside region, the program resumes after a temporary cessation to allow for the reconfiguration of bicycle types available for use at the Bike Share stations.

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