This morning, the city of Los Angeles officially broke ground on its Spring/Alameda Safety and Mobility Project, located in Downtown L.A.’s Chinatown. Construction has been underway for over a month. The $7.5 million 1.2-mile project is upgrading walk and bike access to Union Station, Chinatown Station, L.A. State Historic Park, El Pueblo, and more.
The project includes new protected bike lanes, two new signalized crosswalks (at Ann and Mesnager Streets), sidewalk repairs/upgrades, pedestrian head-start signals, partial street resurfacing, and more.
Via an existing short stretch of on-street protected bike lanes (on Avenue 19 and Broadway), this Alameda/Spring project will connect the ~7.5-mile long Glendale Narrows L.A. River bike path into downtown Los Angeles.
The project is mostly located in the first council district, represented by Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez.
“For far too long we have designed our streets for moving cars, and asked everybody else to figure out how to survive around them” declared Hernandez. “The consequences have been deadly.” Hernandez noted that, over a ten year period, this part of Alameda and Spring saw drivers crash into 46 people walking or biking. “Traffic violence is a policy choice, and today we’re choosing differently.”…