Think you have an idea or two to help make L.A. easier to get around? The Los Angeles Departments of City Planning and Transportation sure hopes so: They have announced a series of public workshops called "Think Labs" aimed at letting Angelenos have their say and help "envision a new way of moving around the city and using its streets for mobility and beyond." more ›

Main Street in Venice is going on a "road diet" and today crews began the work of removing one car lane in each direction to make room for new bike lanes. The new bike lanes will run between Winward Circle and Marine Street at the Santa Monica border. more ›

A new map put out by the city of Los Angeles' Department of Transit (LADOT) gives riders the chance to see our current and planned bikeways. The bikeways come from the bicycle master plan. more ›

Two key parts of Los Angeles-area public transportation systems have been added to Google Maps: DASH and commuter express. more ›

It seems hard to believe that something like this could happen twice, but here we are: another group of city employees is under investigation for possibly participating in a porn. NBC Los Angeles reports that LAFD fire trucks were used in movies that feature adult actress Charley Chase wandering around town and flashing people. more ›

The ranks of Los Angeles' parking enforcement officers is another man down as of last month due to some alleged shady doings. The latest to lose his job is Donald Brooks, who was fired August 16th for two petty theft charges and allegedly soliciting a prostitute. more ›

Downtown L.A. bicyclists rejoice. You may finally enjoy the luxury necessity of bike lanes. Painted only on 7th Street, the lanes reach "through City West and MacArthur Park to Catalina Street, where 7th is interrupted by the site of the former Ambassador Hotel," according to Blogdowntown. more ›

It's all in the numbers, but sometimes the numbers fail to be factual. L.A. Eco-Village blogged a lengthy post today that corrects bikeway mileage numbers reported by the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT). more ›

You may recall the traffic officers who were accosted by a half-naked porn star not long ago, and instead of suggesting that she cover up (not that we have anything against nudity or porn stars, but that was probably indecent exposure), they played along and appeared in the video she was shooting. While on duty. more ›

Deputy Mayor for Transportation Jaime de la Vega has his work cut out for him. Today Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa named de la Vega as his nominee for the Department of Transportation, according to CBS2. His first task: Help City Controller Wendy Greuel complete a full on audit of the seriously effed up department. more ›

City Controller Greuel released the second in a series audits of the LADOT parking citation process revealing massive oversights, missed revenue, questionable policies and special treatment, according to a statement from her office. more ›

Recently, a porn video surfaced showing two LADOT officers engaging in sexual acts with a porn actress while on the job. The officers haven't been disciplined, with parking enforcement chief Jimmy Price claiming that he wasn't able to identify them until recently. But some in the department claim that the participant's identities and participation in the video were common knowledge, and that they weren't disciplined because the department hoped to sweep the incident under the rug. more ›

A full investigation is officially underway by the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation after a video surfaced of two uniformed officers allegedly appearing in an adult video, said LADOT Interim General Manager Amir Sedadi in a statement on Sunday. more ›

In a continuing effort to reduce waste and save money, City Controller Wendy Greuel released the details of a review that examined the Los Angeles Department of Transportation’s parking citation scofflaw enforcement activities showing that the department "failed to adhere to its own action plan, resulting in a decline in enforcement and loss of $5.4million in potential revenue," notes Greuel's press release. more ›

The sidewalks may sparkle with the names of stars, but the streets of Hollywood near the Kodak Theatre are going to get progressively meaner as Los Angeles preps for the Academy Awards on Sunday, February 27th. more ›

Approved by the City Council in April 2010, L.A.'s first official public bicycle corral will finally be installed in Highland Park. "A tentative date of February 18th at 9:00 AM has been set for the corral’s grand opening," says the LADOT Bike Blog. more ›

Is there a spot in the city of Los Angeles that you think would benefit from having a bike rack? The Eastsider explains that "anyone can recommend a bike rack location," and, if the city agrees with the choice, the rack goes in. more ›

LADOT announced two new bike lane projects yesterday which is welcome news after the PR problems of April 2009 when it was believed LADOT planned to remove bike lanes - not add to them - to allow for more car traffic. LA Streetsblog is pleased to see that not only is the Valley getting a better bike network, but "it's also good to see the LADOT keeping its promise to paint the lanes on Reseda and Rinaldi." more ›

Main Street in Venice could see an expanded set of bike lanes, as outlined in a proposal presented by members of the LADOT Bike Program to the Venice Neighborhood Council last night, according to Yo! Venice. The presentation demonstrated via maps that Main Street is currently "the 'missing link' in connecting the bicycle network in west Venice," notes the LADOT Bike Blog. more ›

Every freeway ends somewhere, and while the end of the 2 Freeway isn't going to change, how it ends will. However, the proposed plan to handle the reconstruction project has some detractors in Echo Park, where the 2 meets the road, according to Echo Park Patch. more ›

This is what happens when you lack transparency. Spurred from a bicycle lane that suddenly appeared on a Northridge street that exasperated the neighbors and commuters, Councilmember Greig Smith earlier this month called for all bicycle projects to be reviewed by Neighborhood Councils. But that wasn't enough for the community. more ›

So much for community policing and broken windows theory in a neighborhood that really needs it. The Daily News today reported that, despite apparent attempts to notify the city of abandoned vehicles -- 72 hours on a city street without moving is considered abandoned -- vehicles are sitting on Pacoima neighborhood streets for months, sometimes even years. more ›

Word on the street is that Rita Robinson, who heads up the L.A. Department of Transportation -- traffic, parking enforcement, etc -- will soon step down. That's according to Streetsblog LA's Damien Newton, who has confirmed the news with anonymous sources. If true, Newton already has transit community abuzz with possible replacements. Ideas include the former Mayor of Bogota, Columbia, who brought Ciclovia, an event coming to L.A. next month, and Janette Sadik-Khan of New York City's transportation department. more ›

As evident by a recent bike lane controversy in Northridge, sometimes the most civically active cyclist doesn't even know what plans the city has for bicycle infrastructure. Now the L.A. Department of Transportation has launched a Google map showing all bicycle projects, whether completed, in progress or planned, for the current fiscal year. more ›

Areas designated as bike lanes on the USC campus are now unfriendly territory for bike riders, after "Dr. Charlie Lane, associate senior vice president for Career and Protective Services, announced at a bicycle safety forum that the school is enacting a bicycle ban on [...] the two major pedestrian thoroughfares on the USC campus," according to the LADOT Bike Blog. more ›

No matter what, we are all a pedestrian at some point when getting from here to there. But in a city that has more pedestrian deaths than most others, how much attention is paid to sidewalks and other walking-related infrastructure from our politicians? more ›

LAist's story yesterday about the new pay to park policy for the newly installed coin and card meters spread virally throughout the internet. Angelenos bemoaned on Twitter, Faceboook and blogs that it was unfair. At issue was that no matter what, even if the new meters read FAIL, you have to pay. more ›

The days of parking at a failed meter and getting a free spot are about to get harder. Last week Los Angeles' Department of Transportation began marking the new card & coin meters with a red sticker warning drivers that you must pay to park, no other way about it. more ›

It's a national holiday and in Los Angeles city limits, that means relaxed parking rules. Obvious things like parking in red zone, handicap areas and on sidewalks will still be enforced, but most meters and preferential parking districts will not. The following is via LADOT's website: more ›

Up in the Northwest Valley, 1.2 miles of a city street are slated to get a bicycle lane in each direction. For cyclists and some residents, it's welcome news, for others it's not. But for either side of the issue, the problem was that no one knew, even cyclists who closely monitor the progress of bicycle infrastructure, about it until pre-striping markings were painted on the street earlier this month. And that brand of sudden change can freak people out, setting them on an opposition war path. more ›