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Restriping, left-turn signals, parking restrictions and signal timing are all part of the controversial Olympic-Pico traffic plan (.pdf) that will be subject to three public meetings over the next week.
Between Centinela Avenue and Fairfax Avenue, on Olympic and Pico Boulevards, proposed changes in an initial study would favor travel on westbound Olympic. and eastbound Pico. In essence, the streets would act like one-way thoroughfares, but earlier plans to change the number of westbound and eastbound lanes have been dropped, Ken Husting, a senior transportation engineer for the city, told the LA Times.
Huisting also said "that current parking restrictions are 'a hodge podge' of times and locations." A list of the public meetings for this week are below.
Westside Jewish Community Center
April 1, 2009
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
5870 West Olympic Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Temple Beth Am
April 2, 2009
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
1039 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Stoner Recreation Center
April 7, 2009
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
1835 Stoner Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90025
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When it comes to ideas like this and adding the Wilshire bus-only lanes, I really, really, really wish that LADOT could work better with the City of Beverly Hills in order to provide continuity of the routes. Is there any idea who is to blame? Bev Hills or LADOT? I'm sure they both have all of the bureaucratic rules in the world as to why they don't work on this together, but it's worth thinking about.
Also, without the addition/removal of lanes in each direction, isn't this really just adding or extending the anti-gridlock zones... if there's not even additional east-west lanes, what's the point of calling this anything like an "Olympic west, Pico east"... they are nothing like one way thoroughfares if there's no lane changes. It's just allowing the parking lane on each to be a traffic lane, right?