One-Way Plans Move Forward in L.A.
Plans are inching forward to convert two of L.A.'s most-used cross-town corridors into mostly one way streets.
"Despite fierce opposition from residents and concerns by two City Council members, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has ordered Los Angeles transportation officials to implement a plan to make Pico Boulevard mostly one-way eastbound, and Olympic Boulevard mostly one-way westbound."
"Under the mayor's plan, which had stalled earlier this week in a City Council committee, parking would be forbidden on all but a few stretches of Pico and Olympic during rush hour beginning March 8."
"Traffic signals would be timed to favor faster eastbound traffic on Pico and westbound traffic on Olympic by April 28. After six months to a year, the two streets probably would be restriped so that Pico would have four lanes going east and two going west, while Olympic would have four lanes going west and two going east, a spokesman for the mayor said Thursday."
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What is the mayor of LA thinking...?
Big mistake... turning two of LA's longest boulevards into one-way traffic sewers, ruining miles and miles of streetfront (lots of businesses will suffer as well)... all so cars and SUVs can "speed" across town a few MPH faster (on a good day, maybe saving 10 minutes the entire distance from Century City to Downtown). Just unbelieveable. I can only conclude that Mayor Villaraigosa still has his head firmly stuck in the car age, just when I was beginning to think that LA was finally beginning to move beyond that.