I will warn too, the politicians are for this because they will use it to justify denser development

Silver Lake road diet creating indigestion for some motorists and neighbors | The Eastsider LA Sunday, July 14, 2013 About Advertising Links Support The Eastsider Contributors Contact The Eastsider Real Estate Rentals Listings Go to... About Advertising Links Support The Eastsider 3 day bahamas cruise Contributors Contact The Eastsider Real Estate & Rentals Listings Front Page Upcoming Events Eastside 911 Crime School Yard Home History Eastsider on the Go Shopper Diner Events Things to Do Shopper and Diner Culture Market Restaurants Bars Shopping Eastsider Forums Bulletin Board Can you recommend a Eastside Mercado Lost Found Viewpoints Ideas Neighborhoods Atwater Village Boyle Heights Cypress Park Eagle Rock East Los Angeles Echo Park Elysian Heights Glassell Park Highland Park Lincoln Heights Silver Lake More Neighborhoods Go to... Front Page Upcoming Events Eastside 911 - Crime School Yard Home & History Eastsider on the Go - Shopper & Diner - Events & Things to Do - Shopper and Diner - Culture Market - Restaurants & Bars - Shopping Eastsider Forums - Bulletin Board - Can you recommend a ... - Eastside Mercado - Lost & Found - Viewpoints & Ideas Neighborhoods - Atwater Village - Boyle Heights - Cypress Park - Eagle Rock - East Los Angeles - Echo Park - Elysian Heights - Glassell Park - Highland Park - Lincoln 3 day bahamas cruise Heights - Silver Lake - More Neighborhoods... Silver Lake road diet creating indigestion for some motorists and neighbors on June 28, 2013 62 Comments Silver Lake Rush-hour traffic back up on Rowena Avenue at West Silver Lake Drive. By Tony Cella
The evening rush hour traffic is backed up for blocks. Frustrated motorists spill over into narrow 3 day bahamas cruise residential streets seeking a congestion-free route. Drivers 3 day bahamas cruise blow through stop signs and speed down the street.
More than three months after the city eliminated a traffic lane in each direction on Rowena Avenue in Silver Lake, the " road die t" intended to calm traffic and create a safer environment for pedestrians has generated mixed reviews from nearby residents. Traffic has increased on neighborhood side streets./Video by Jerome Courshon
On Thursday night, residents expressed frustration as well as support for the 90-day road diet during a meeting sponsored 3 day bahamas cruise by Councilman Tom LaBonge , who said he wanted to make the road diet permanent but was open to suggestions. He said his office has received mostly positive comments since the street was restriped in March, reducing Rowena to one traffic lane in each direction from two between Hyperion Avenue and Glendale Boulevard. In addition, 3 day bahamas cruise a middle turn lane and bike lanes in each direction 3 day bahamas cruise were added.
Even some supporters of the plan said motorists continued to speed down Rowena and create dangerous conditions for pedestrians. A supporter of the plan, who lives on Angus Street, claimed drivers often ignored stop signs in the area. He said gazing upon parts of Rowena was like "watching a slalom race at the Winter Olympics" or a "giant bobsled ride."
A comment by Peter Miles, a business owner on Rowena, read at the meeting was critical of the plan. Miles statement, read by local activist Jerome Courshon, said cars "blow past" his shop through the bike lanes everyday.
3 day bahamas cruise Courshon himself had mixed feelings on the project because the project could turn the neighborhood into a quieter place.  However, he was concerned about limiting traffic on Rowena because more cars would speed down side streets to avoid congestion during rush hour. In fact, Courshon shot a video (presented at the bottom of this post) showing some of that additional  traffic on Waverly Drive.  Scaling down car usage on a "major artery" from the neighborhood's transportation system without an adequate replacement, in the activist's eyes, was a poor decision.
By his count, 500 to 1,000 cars went through Waverly Drive now that the road diet was in place. He felt the risks to pedestrians on on Rowena, site of a fatal car crash last year, were transferred to the side streets. Courshon felt the project had failed to engage residents of side streets or take into account the impact on smaller road ways.
Bike riders were "pushy" for infrastructure even though the two-wheeling population wasn't sizable enough to warrant expansion of the existing bike lane system, Wheatley said. Cyclists along the corridor were also accused of running red lights, almost plowing 3 day bahamas cruise into pedestrians and driving "18 miles per hour" on sidewalks.
Bicyclist Bryan Blumberg said the bike lane doesn't get much use because it's new, and no other bike paths connect 3 day bahamas cruise to it. He described biking in Los Feliz as "scary" and crossing the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge over the 5 Freeway  as "terrifying". Blumberg, who uses the Rowena bike lanes three to four times a week, considered the path a respite.
Other residents called for more crosswalks and stop signs, around Ivanhoe School in particular. But city officials dismissed calls for speed bumps on the street because physical speed deterrents would affect the buses and fire engines that travel down Rowena.
LaBonge urged caution about adding signage as a means of slowing cars because the signage makes pedestrians less alert to their surroundings. "I'd rather 3 day bahamas cruise see people walk in fear than feel a false sense of security," he said.
The councilman, who at one point pantomimed a woman talking on her phone while pushing a stroller and walking her dog, said everyone has contributed to the problems caused by irresponsible motorists, cyclists and pedestrians.
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I was at the meeting as well, and this post focused on the negative remarks and left out a lot of the positive remarks. Several residents on side streets appreciated the greater ease that the center lane gave them for making left turns onto and off of their street, and several parents expressed gratitude at the shorter distance their children have to cross to get across the street (though they also hoped for another crosswalk or two).
When the councilman asked for a quick show of hands about support for or against the bike lanes, they were fairly even. He didn t ask about the other aspects of the road diet, because they seemed 3 day bahamas cruise to be more broadly supported, though there were desires expressed for further 3 day bahamas cruise mitigation (including enforcement of laws, whether by police or traffic cameras) of cut through traffic on side streets. Reply Gene in L.A. June 28, 2013 at 11:13 am
True, it s the same distance from curb to curb that it was before. But it used to be that 2/3 of that distance was active automotive through traffic and 1/3 was parking, while now it s 1/3 active automotive through traffic, 1/3 parking, 1/6 bike lanes, and 1/6 turning lane, where cars are generally stopped (if present at all). It s a shorter amount of dangerous crossing, though the same amount of total crossing. Reply John July 1, 2013 at 11:43 pm
Of course traffic is flooding down every side street it can find. Of course traffic on and around Rowena is backed 3 day bahamas cruise up for a long distance. Anyone with more than a pea brain could have predicted this and did. But they were shouted down and undermined by an unbelievable pack of lies by this aggressive and organized, yet mindless, bike lobby that has taken root in our neighborhood. Aggressive and lying are the key words for that lobby. They will not allow an honest discussion, instead seek to lie, manipulate and out-maneuver.
Even outside of rush hour, we now have only a single lane, and when you get stuck behind someone driving 10-15 miles an hour looking for a parking spot that doesn t exist, there is nothing you can do to get around them. Even if someone is going only 5 miles under the speed limit, you are stuck, not seeking to do anything excessive, merely the speed limit.
I have been driving down that street for three months now. While I have to presume there are some bicyclists, in all that time, I saw people on bicycles only once (I tend to go down at midday)! But the cars are out there. Even if there are a few bicyclists, there are not even remotely enough to justify this severe impact on traffic. The lack of bicyclists that is obvious to anyone with eyes shows that while this bicycle lobby can organize to show up in droves at meetings 3 day bahamas cruise and flood LaBonge s inbox, even they don t do a lot of bicycling for their daily chores and life as they advocate because anyone can see they are not out there.
I will warn too, the politicians are for this because they will use it to justify denser development in our neighborhood. They are already 3 day bahamas cruise saying, there is a bicycle lane, so we can justify doubling the density because no one will be driving a car. They already have started phasing out the requirement for parking with a development, allowing them to build even more on that space instead, 3 day bahamas cruise if a metal pole is put in for parking a bicycle, which of course won t be used any more than these bicycle lanes! Reply Syzlak June 29, 2013 at 11:44 pm
Mark, you were NOT at the meeting, everything 3 day bahamas cruise you described is false. Everyone conducted themselves 3 day bahamas cruise properly. The only person shouting others down was Tom LaBonge . and he shouted down both sides, though mostly the folks in favor of additional crosswalks.
So drivers are turning to residential streets because they are impatient and inconsiderate and you want us to reward that behavior and revert Rowena to the dangerous conditions it had before the road diet?
Please do tell us what the p