From LA.Streetsblog.org
By Joe Linton
In welcoming Hollywood’s first protected bike lanes, Councilmember Raman proclaimed, “It is an incredibly exciting moment to say the majority of Angelenos want safe streets and we are here to say ‘yes’ to it.”
In enthusiastically welcoming the first protected bike lanes in his central Los Angeles district, City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez proclaimed, “We are making Hollywood safer by redesigning the street layout to decrease speeding, give people more options to get around the city, and just making it much more livable.”
Soto-Martinez spoke at this morning’s ribbon-cutting celebration for the completion of the initial phase of the city’s Hollywood Boulevard Safety and Mobility Project, part of Soto-Martinez’ “Access to Hollywood” revitalization efforts. The event was attended by about a hundred project supporters, plus fewer than half a dozen detractors.