Seeing red over green: When L.A. painted a 1.5-mile strip of Spring Street neon green last year, it was hailed as a major step in the city’s effort to have cars and bicycles coexist. But the lane has been criticized by the film industry, which frequently uses the stretch of Spring as a stand-in for other cities and eras.
There’s a great graphic here on how drivers should handle themselves around the bike lane.
aka, Common sense.
And for the last time, I deeply don’t apologize to the film industry that Downtown L.A. is trying to create a real neighborhood for themselves and not a Hollywood backlot.
“It did happen here.” — snow and hail cover Broadway in downtown Los Angeles on February 20, 1944.
(via latimes)