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    Driving between Silver Lake and Atwater will get a little easier this week

    A section of Glendale Boulevard connecting Silver Lake and Atwater Village is scheduled to reopen at the end of this week after an approximately six-month road closure that generated traffic tie ups and complaints about noise and air pollution.  A  DWP official, in an email alert to residents, said  Glendale Boulevard between Waverly and Riverside [...]

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    Rain and road closures await L.A. Marathon runners and residents

    2011 L.A. Marathon runners head into Silver Lake on Sunset Boulevard. Runners who passed through Echo Park and Silver Lake during last year’s Los Angeles Marathon (shown in the video above) met with rain as well as cheering fans as they raced their way from Dodger Stadium to Santa Monica.  Looks like this year’s Los [...]

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    Will Dash buses ever roll through Silver Lake?

    Three years ago Silver Lake residents tried to have the Los Feliz Dash bus line extended into Silver Lake, with a route looping around sections of Hyperion Avenue and Silver Lake and Sunset boulevards. That never happened. But the idea of a Silver Lake Dash bus route has resurfaced again, with the Silver Lake Neighborhood [...]

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    Echo Park council considers One Way to solve a street’s traffic problem*

    The Echo Park neighborhood council on Tuesday night will consider a proposal to convert the 1800 block of f Lobdell Place into a one-way to improve traffic safety.  After speed humps were placed on Lake Shore Avenue to the east,  many motorists have apparently decided to shoot down Lobdell Place, a narrow street barely 20 [...]

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    Silver Lake dot detour begins this weekend

    A  one-block section of Griffith Park Boulevard in Silver Lake will be closed off on Sunday, Feb. 19  for at least one year to create a traffic-free plaza painted with green polka dots. The city’s Department of Transportation will set up temporary barriers sealing off Griffith Park Boulevard between Maltman Avenue and Edgcliff Drive to [...]

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    Pedestrians and bikes to rule the road on this Silver Lake street

    A plan to turn a small section of Griffith Park Boulevard in Silver Lake into a traffic-free zone for pedestrians and bikes is moving forward.  Under a City Council motion introduced by Councilman Eric Garcetti, nearly two blocks of Griffith Park Boulevard between Sunset Boulevard and Edgecliff Drive will be off limits to most motor [...]

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    Councilman orders study of Rowena Road Diet

    Councilman Tom LaBonge wants city staff to study the possibility of reducing a stretch of busy Rowena Avenue in Silver Lake to one traffic lane in each direction as part of a “road diet.” The Eastsider reported earlier this month that some members of the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council have proposed reducing traffic lanes on Rowena [...]

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    First Street Bridge reopens – finally

    City officials will gather on the First Street Bridge – one of the Los Angeles River spans linking Boyle Heights to downtown Los Angeles – on Tuesday morning to celebrate the reopening of the structure following a widening project  that took longer and cost more than expected.  Portions of the 82-year-old bridge have been closed [...]

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    Silver Lake “road diet” would trim traffic lanes instead of carbs

    Some members of the  Silver Lake Neighborhood Council want to reduce a stretch of busy Rowena Avenue down to one  lane in each direction instead of two as part of a so-called “road diet.”  The idea behind a slimmer, trimmer Rowena between Glendale Boulevard and Hyperion Avenue is to reduce speeding traffic and create a [...]

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    El Sereno seeks “Quiet Zone” to silence train horns

    Last year the residents of El Sereno celebrated the opening of a long-awaited Valley Boulevard bridge over the train tracks near Mariana Avenue. The $54 million Valley Grade Separation Bridge was supposed to eliminate the daily traffic jams and blaring train horns every time a Union Pacific freight train – as many as 30 a [...]

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    New signs advise Elysian Valley bike riders to share

    City workers today installed a pair of  “Share the Path” signs on the Elysian Valley section of the L.A. River Pedestrian/Bike Path, according to the Elysian Valley Neighborhood Watch.  The signs, which were financed with a grant arranged by Council District 13, were installed following several run-ins and near misses between pedestrians and bike riders [...]

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    Echo Park road closure ahead

    The good news for Echo Park drivers and Dash bus riders is that northbound Echo Park Avenue near Park Avenue will soon reopen. The bad news is that a section of Park Avenue will  soon be closed in both directions through the end of January for the construction of an underground storm water structure related [...]

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    Silver Lake motorists seeing red over detour

    Many Silver Lake residents like David Warren welcomed the reopening of West Silver Lake Drive in May following a year-long closure as DWP crews installed a giant new underground water line. But only a few months after West Silver Lake Drive was reopened, a section of Glendale Boulevard at Waverly Drive was closed off for [...]

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    Copper wire thieves leave freeway drivers in the dark

    Alex Graber of Montecito Heights drives frequently through the tangle of lanes where the 110 and  5 freeways meet near Lincoln Heights and Cypress Park.  But Graber said getting through this busy interchange has been made  more challenging since so many of the lights have gone dark and have stayed that way for the past [...]

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    Will going backwards solve Eagle Rock’s parking problems?

    Reverse angled parking in the Midwest. A group of Eagle Rock citizens and community groups have once undertaken the task of revitalizing Colorado Boulevard. One of the ideas raised at a recent meeting of the Take Back the Boulevard campaign was the introduction of angled parking to increase the number of spaces along the busy [...]

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    Another reason not to spit on the Gold Line

    The Source, the blog published by the Metro transit agency, today reviewed crime statistics on the system’s rail lines in the wake of recent stabbings, including one on the Gold Line that runs through Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles and Northeast L.A.  This year’s crime figures through August show that major crime on the Gold [...]

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