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More Scramble Crosswalks for LA
This doesn't even look like a crosswalk, but this is is a scramble crosswalk in Tokyo | Photo by Julie Wolfson/LAist
If you felt your neighborhood should deserve one of those new scramble crosswalks, which allows for diagonal crossing at intersections (see a video example here), there's more than just the one in Westwood Village announced the other day (and the older one near USC). Here's the list of ten scramble crosswalks planned across the city, thanks to Steve Hymon at the Bottleneck Blog:
- Le Conte and Westwood (debuting Thursday in Westwood around 9:30 a.m.)
- Broxton and Weyburn (Westwood)
- 11th and Maple (downtown)
- 12th and Maple (downtown)
- 11th and Santee (downtown)
- 12th and Santee (downtown)
- Pacific and Windward (Venice)
- Hoover and Jefferson (Exposition Park)
- Jefferson and McClintock (Exposition Park)
- Erwin and Owensmouth (Woodland Hills)
Your neighborhood left out? Like one commenter said yesterday, he feels there should be one at Santa Monica and Fairfax, among many other locations. We feel Ventura and Sepulveda could benefit from one. What say you? List your picks in the comments section.
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