CRENSHAWGREAT STREET WHAT IS THE GREAT STREETS INITIATIVE? GREAT STREETS INITIATIVE
OTHER GREAT STREETS PROJECTS César Chávez
In 2014, Mayor Eric Garcetti designated Crenshaw Boulevard as one of L.A.’s first 15 Great Streets. The City of Los Angeles is investing in safety improvements
Crosswalk and safety improvements
based on guidance from the Hyde Park and Park Mesa Neighborhood Councils. These improvements enhance economic vitality, safety and quality of life for residents, business owners and visitors.
OVERALL GOALS FOR THIS INITIATIVE: • Increase Economic Activity
Van Nuys
Street safety improvements
• Improve Access + Mobility • Enhance Neighborhood Character • Greater Community Engagement • Improve Environmental Resilience • Safer + More Secure Communities
Reseda
• Improve Health Outcomes
Street safety improvements
SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS INCLUDE: • Highly visible pedestrian crossings • Shorter crossing distances
Hollywood
• Improved connections to businesses • New medians with street trees
Pedestrian Scramble
• New rapid flashing beacons • New curb extensions • Signal changes
OTHER GREAT STREETS BENEFITS: ARTS ACTIVATION FUND
ENHANCED MAINTENANCE
BUSINESS ASSISTANCE
• Local artists may apply for up to $15,000 to support temporary objects, installations, or experiences • Visit the Great Streets website, http://lagreatstreets.org/arts-activation/ for more information
• Each Great Street will receive proactive street maintenance work thanks to additional resources that have been secured in the City’s budget. A dedicated crew at the Bureau of Street Services is making proactive repairs. • Visit http://lagreatstreets.org/maintenance/ for more information
• Great Streets Initiative and the Economic and Workforce Development Department are proud to announce the Great Streets Great Business program: a $4 million small business loan fund. • For more information about how to access these services, check out VEDC.org/greatstreets.
CRENSHAWGREAT STREET
GREAT STREETS WALK THROUGH RESTORING STREET PARKING AT RUSH HOUR
March 2015
May 2015
2015
THREE WEEKS OF TARGETED SIDEWALK RECONSTRUCTION
2016
DESIGN OF CRENSHAW IMPROVEMENTS
February 2017
April 2015
HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM APPLICATION
2015
NEW CONTINENTAL CROSSWALKS INSTALLED AT FLORENCE AVE AND 76TH ST
2015
NEW ADA ACCESSIBLE BUS LANDING PADS AT 78TH ST AND 76TH ST
2014
April 2017
June 2016 November 2016
March 2017
May-October 2017
Spring 2017 June 15, 2017 August 2017
TEMPORARY STRIPING AND BOLLARDS
August 2018
September 2018
PRE-DESIGN OF CRENSHAW IMPROVEMENTS GREAT STREETS ROUND TWO GRANT APPLICATION 7 NEW LITTER BINS INSTALLED ON THE CORRIDOR RIGHT-OF-WAY/ APPROVALS COMMUNITY OPEN HOUSE
CONCRETE BUILD OUT OF SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS
PHASE 2
2018
PHASE 1
CRENSHAW IMPROVEMENT PROJECT PROPOSAL MEETING
TODAY
VISION ZERO INSTALLED ONE SPEED FEED SIGN IN EACH DIRECTION BETWEEN 79TH AND FLORENCE
April 2014
2015
THREE WEEKS OF SIDEWALK MAINTENANCE FROM FLORENCE TO 79TH ST
GREAT STREETS ROUND TWO CHALLENGE GRANT AWARDED FOR CRENSHAW BLVD @ 54TH ST
2015
CRENSHAW NEIGHBORHOOD STREETSCAPE PLAN (STARTED IN 2012/2013)
June 2014
2016
CRENSHAW DESIGNATED AS ONE OF FIRST 15 GREAT STREETS IN LOS ANGELES
July 2013
2017
PEDESTRIAN FATALITY AT 78TH AND CRENSHAW
2013
TIMELINE
CRENSHAWGREAT STREET STREETSCAPE ELEMENTS INVENTORY EXISTING STREET TREES
AVAILABLE PARKING
COMING SOON CURB EXTENSION
PEDESTRIAN REFUGES/ MEDIANS
HIGH-VISIBILITY CROSSWALKS
ACCESSIBLE CURB RAMPS
SMOOTH & ACCESSIBLE SIDEWALKS
RAPID RECTANGULAR FLASHING BEACON (RRFB)
ELEMENTS EXAMPLES
CRENSHAWGREAT STREET DID YOU KNOW?
MONTHLY METRO RIDERSHIP Source | Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), Metro, 2014
0-250
250-750
AVERAGE DAILY VEHICLE VOLUMES Source | Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), 2013
750+
northbound
PROJECT CORRIDOR AREA
FLORENCE TO 79TH
0.5 MILES
POSTED SPEED LIMIT IN PROJECT AREA
SPEED LIMIT
35
CRENSHAW BLVD BUSINESS TYPES
Source | Los Angeles Office of Finance, 2014
14,380 southbound
CRENSHAW BLVD AREA DEMOGRAPHICS Source | US Census American Community Survey (ACS) five-year estimates (2008-2012)
12,786
CRENSHAWGREAT STREET WHAT HAVE WE HEARD?
140
COLLECTED BY
SURVEYS
85%
HAD SAFETY CONCERNS ABOUT CRENSHAW BLVD
66%
HOW DO PEOPLE GET AROUND CRENSHAW BLVD?
34%
WALK
25%
BUS
22%
DRIVE
HAVE BEEN IN OR
WITNESSED A CAR CRASH A MAJORITY OF DRIVERS TRAVEL
11-13 MPH OVER THE SPEED LIMIT ON CRENSHAW
Speed survey data, 2013 LADOT
88%
WANT PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS LIKE THE ONES HIGHLIGHTED AT THE STREET BEATS DEMONSTRATION EVENT
CRENSHAWGREAT STREET COLLISIONS (2006-2013) 2 AUTO FATALITIES (2010)
141 COLLISIONS 9 PEDESTRIAN FLORENCE 4 BICYCLE SMOOTH & ACCESSIBLE SIDEWALKS
18 COLLISIONS 2 PEDESTRIAN
1 PEDESTRIAN FATALITY (2009)
19 COLLISIONS 3 PEDESTRIAN
10 COLLISIONS 1 PEDESTRIAN
1 PEDESTRIAN FATALITY (2009)
73RD ST
14 COLLISIONS 4 PEDESTRIAN 1 BICYCLE
77TH ST
78TH ST
RAPID RECTANGULAR FLASHING BEACON (RRFB)
PEDESTRIAN REFUGES/ MEDIANS
CURB EXTENSION
HIGH-VISIBILITY CROSSWALKS
SMOOTH & ACCESSIBLE SIDEWALKS
ACCESSIBLE CURB RAMPS
CURB EXTENSION
HIGH-VISIBILITY CROSSWALKS
SMOOTH & ACCESSIBLE SIDEWALKS
ACCESSIBLE CURB RAMPS
RAPID RECTANGULAR FLASHING BEACON (RRFB)
PEDESTRIAN REFUGES/ MEDIANS
CURB EXTENSION
HIGH-VISIBILITY CROSSWALKS
SMOOTH & ACCESSIBLE SIDEWALKS
ACCESSIBLE CURB RAMPS
PEDESTRIAN REFUGES/ MEDIANS
IMPROVED SIGNALIZATION
SIGNAL MODIFICATION
LEGEND CURB EXTENSION
CURB EXTENSION
2 COLLISIONS
PEDESTRIAN BICYCLE
IMPROVED SIGNALIZATION
78TH PL
COLLISION DATA (LADOT) 2006-2013 AUTO
SIGNAL MODIFICATION
75TH ST
76TH ST
8 COLLISIONS 1 PEDESTRIAN
ACCESSIBLE CURB RAMPS
74TH ST
16 COLLISIONS 2 PEDESTRIAN
8 COLLISIONS
1 PEDESTRIAN FATALITY (2013)
HIGH-VISIBILITY CROSSWALKS
N
79TH ST
HIGH-VISIBILITY CROSSWALKS
CURB RAMP PEDESTRIAN REFUGE
SMOOTH & ACCESSIBLE SIDEWALKS
ACCESSIBLE CURB RAMPS
MEDIAN CROSSWALK
CRENSHAWGREAT STREET CONNECTING THE DOTS 1/4 MILE / 5 MINUTE WALK RADIUS
48th St
Crenshaw High School
54th St
1/
4M ILE/ 5 MINUT E W
60th St
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LEGEND
INVESTMENT GREAT STREETS CORRIDOR DESIGNATED 2014 GREAT STREETS CHALLENGE ROUND 1 - STREET BEATS 2016
$30K
GREAT STREETS CHALLENGE ROUND 2
$30K
HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
$2M
METRO LIGHT RAIL INSTALLATION 2019
79th St N
CRENSHAW BOULEVARD STREETSCAPE PLAN
$2B
CRENSHAWGREAT STREET WHAT WILL IT LOOK LIKE? 76TH ST - EXISTING
75 FEET
NEW CURB EXTENSION
SHORTER CROSSING DISTANCES
59 FEET
76TH ST - PROPOSED
NEW CURB EXTENSIONS
ADDITIONAL LANDSCAPING
CRENSHAWGREAT STREET WHAT WILL IT LOOK LIKE? 79TH ST - EXISTING
70 FEET
NEW CURB EXTENSION
NEW MEDIAN AND PEDESTRIAN REFUGE WITH TREES
SHORTER CROSSING DISTANCE
46 FEET 79TH ST - PROPOSED
NEW CURB EXTENSION
IMPROVED ADA RAMPS
HIGH VISIBILITY CROSSWALKS
CRENSHAWGREAT STREET WHICH TREE REFLECTS CRENSHAW BLVD?
AUSTRALIAN WILLOW
PINK TRUMPET
CRAPE MYRTLE
CRENSHAWGREAT STREET PUBLIC SAFETY BENEFITS WALKABILITY
YOU ARE MORE WALKABLE ENVIRONMENT
2x
more likely to get enough physical activity if you live in a walkable
Linking objectively measured physical activity with objectively measured urban form. Finding from SMARTRAQ. American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
neighborhood POTENTIAL
49%
D E V O R P M I D N A W NE S K L A W S S O R C Y T HIGH VISIBILI
reduction in commercial vacancies
NYCDOT 2013
CONTINENTAL CROSSWALKS SAFER FOR PEDESTRIANS
are
2.5x
more visible than standard crosswalks FHWA Crosswalk Marking Field Visibility Study
S E R U S A E M G N I M L TRAFFIC CA
REDUCE DANGEROUS SPEEDS
Vision Zero Los Angeles - Action Plan
Y
ET F A S N O I S N E T X E B CUR
CROSSING SAFETY
-seco 5 nds crossing time due to shortened crossing distance
21%
increase in vehicles yielding to pedestrians with curb extensions
Randal S. Johnson, Pedestrian Safety Impacts of Curb Extensions: A Case Study (Corvallis: Oregon State University, 2005).
S N O C A E B G N I H S A RAPID FL
VISIBLE CROSSING
63%
increase in vehicles yielding to pedestrians
with Rapid Flashing Beacons installed
Sherbutt, J., R. Van Houten, and S. Turner. “An Analysis of the Effects of Stutter Flash LED Beacons to Increase Yielding to Pedestrians Using Multilane Crosswalks.” Presented at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2008.
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