Reseda Boulevard

Eyes on the Street: Reseda Boulevard Complete Streets Project Completed

From LA.Streetsblog.org

By Joe Linton

L.A. City recently completed three miles of complete streets upgrades along the San Fernando Valley’s Reseda Boulevard. While the street and its surrounding neighborhood remain somewhat suburban, the recent upgrades are benefitting the pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders who travel on Reseda every day.

The Reseda Boulevard upgrades are primarily the brainchild of L.A. City Councilmember Bob Blumenfield, though he collaborated with Councilmember John Lee, whose district includes a short portion at the north end of the project. Credit also goes to the city departments that designed and installed the improvements: the Department of Transportation (LADOT), Department of Sanitation, and Public Works Department’s Bureaus of Street Services, Engineering, and Street Lighting.

Reseda Boulevard construction kicked off in late 2020. Streetsblog shared in-progress photos in July 2022. When the project wrapped up last March, the city partnered with CicLAvia to host a Ready for Reseda grand opening. Streetsblog didn’t make it out to that event, but visited Reseda Boulevard last week.

Reseda Boulevard now has the longest continuous protected bike lane facility in Southern California: 3.9 miles long from Plummer Street to Victory Boulevard.

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Reseda Boulevard complete streets project takes shape

From LA.Urbanize.city

By STEVEN SHARP

In October, the City of Los Angeles broke ground on a nearly $20-million project which will transform a 2.9-mile stretch of Reseda Boulevard through the addition of new pedestrian and bicycle safety infrastructure. With nearly two years of construction in the rear-view mirror, the latest in LADOT’s periodic e-mail updates on the makeover offers a glimpse of what has been completed to date.

According to LADOT, work on the project has to date included 100,000 square feet of sidewalk repair, 12,000 square feet of gutter repair, as well as the construction of 46 new curb ramps and 11 accessible loading zones. Likewise, new bus boarding islands have been built at 11 locations along the corridor, which will allow buses to stop without pulling over, and double as a curb to separate the adjacent bicycle lane from traffic.

The project, which will stretch between Victory Boulevard in the south and Parthenia Street in the north, will eventually include:

  • high-visibility crosswalks;
  • 11 bus boarding islands at 9 intersections;
  • protected bike lanes separated from automobile traffic by vertical bollards and concrete islands;
  • new loading zones and curb ramps;
  • new left turn arrows at 8 intersections;
  • 13 bioswales;
  • new shade trees;
  • pedestrian lighting at bus stops; and
  • a crosswalk with flashing beacons at Napa Street with a median pedestrian island.

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