The LA Police Department stopped a group of volunteers who was painting missing crosswalks in a Westwood intersection.
The Los Angeles Police Department shut down a guerilla crosswalk painting event in the city’s Westwood neighborhood, citing the group’s organizer with vandalism on city property.
As Joe Linton reports for Streetsblog LA, the event was part of a campaign dubbed People’s Vision Zero, which builds on the work of other DIY crosswalk groups that paint missing crosswalks to encourage the city to pay attention to its pedestrian infrastructure.
The group finished painting two of four planned crosswalks before authorities stopped them, making them reopen the street to cars.
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