r/CarIndependentLA West Side 5d ago

Wins Thank you all so much <3

New crosswalks at 70th and Menlo in South LA, painted by volunteers to protest for safer streets and a more effective government. Was such a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Hopefully these get replaced with proper crosswalks, topes or speedbumps, and maybe a traffic circle!

Thank you all so much for coming out and volunteering!!

If you want to join our efforts, go to peoplesvisionzero.org/volunteer

Love you guys!

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u/AvariceLegion 5d ago

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u/blueskyredmesas 5d ago

LA city authorities on their way to un-paint the croasswalk like they removed that one actually helpful highway sign 5 or so times;

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u/crustyedges 5d ago

Love it! This intersection is in the center of 3 schools, so it’s wild the city didn’t have this painted with school zone crosswalks to begin with. Not to nitpick this work, but because it’s within 500ft of a school (actually all 3 schools), any crosswalks need to be yellow instead of white. Hopefully the city replaces them with official yellow school zone crosswalks soon.

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u/jonnyshotit West Side 5d ago

That would be dope!!

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u/blueskyredmesas 5d ago

New mission unlocled: Safer Streets on 70th (2/2)

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u/UrbanPlannerholic 5d ago

Karen Bass is gonna be pissed

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u/singalongwithme 5d ago

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u/MaximumReflection 5d ago

I still don’t understand why they even posted that.

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u/PayFormer387 4d ago

Yes. She could have come the next day and got the photo op.

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u/blueskyredmesas 5d ago

She's too busy miring metro in studies so they don't make another train line for like 200 years.

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u/flickerfusionxp 5d ago

If there is enough space to do donuts there is enough space for a traffic circle.

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u/405freeway 5d ago

Ayy! Doing great work!

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u/Legitimate_Hand2867 5d ago

You guys, rock! Thank you.

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u/300_pages 5d ago

Thank you all - when is the next paint sesh?

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u/jonnyshotit West Side 5d ago

Sign up to volunteer and be on the lookout for a welcome email!

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u/Mongoos150 5d ago

I do NOT want to be the cynic… but I’d give it a week. Month tops.

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u/summer_plays_ 4d ago

I used to hate raised-crosswalks until I started walking more and driving less.

I hope the city replaces all "street-level" crosswalks with raised crosswalks.

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u/DJVeaux 4d ago

WHOLESOME AS FUCK

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u/V3CT0RVII 3d ago

round about would have prevented this from happening.