L.A. Department of Transportation

Academy Awards Street Parking Is Only $365

Ah, the Academy Awards. A prom-queen night where an industry gives love to itself like no man ever could. Do you think the city is going shut down the streets for the L.A. Press Club Awards? Oh hell no. But we bend over backwards for Hollywood. And you, the L.A. citizen, shall pay. Street closures ... More >>

L.A. Parking Tickets Are A Money-Making Racket Designed To Foil Appeals, Lawsuit Says

Does the city of L.A. essentially deprive you the right to challenge parking tickets it issues? A man named Jeff Galfer thinks so. He's the lead plaintiff in a new class action lawsuit that alleges the city violates your constitutional rights by making it difficult to appeal a parking ticket. Acco ... More >>

Santa Claus Gets Parking Ticket In Downtown Los Angeles

If Santa didn't bring you everything you wanted, consider how bad his week had been. Old St. Nick had a run in with the wonderful city employees at the L.A. Department of Transportation. And you know who was naughty. TMZ reports that Santa Claus' car was actually issued a parking ticket. WTF?

New California Bill Will Let L.A. Squeeze in More Bike Lanes, Sans Environmental Review

Although they're hard to hear over the impassioned roar of cycling advocates at L.A. City Hall, some local homeowners and car-drivers are freaking out over AB 2245, a feel-good state bill pitched by Assemblyman Cameron Smyth (R-Santa Clarita) as a fast-track to a greener Los Angeles County. Jim O'S ... More >>

Porn DVDs Found Under Desk of L.A. Transportation Clerk

The L.A. Department of Transportation seems to have a thing with porn. Don't we all, you say. Yes, but on-the-job porn? First a parking enforcement officer was caught fondling an adult performer for an impromptu scene caught on tape. (Hate it when that happens). Now, city officials say, a transpor ... More >>

Pool Service Truck Crashes in Encino, Unleashes Toxic Chlorine Gas Onto Ventura Boulevard

This out-of-control heat wave, combined with our usual traffic mayhem, has made it hard out there for a pool guy on the streets of L.A.: Brian Humphrey of the L.A. City Fire Department says that over the last week, two separate car crashes involving pool-service vehicles have resulted in dangerous ... More >>

You Can No Longer Be Ticketed at Broken Parking Meters in California -- But L.A. Is Expected to Opt Out of State Policy

Here in Los Angeles, city officials will do everything within their power to indirectly tax us for driving (even though driving is often the only way to traverse the sprawl, and dreams for a full L.A. subway system probably won't be realized for another half-century). This month, City Hall bumped up ... More >>

Expo Line Opens Today; MTA Worked Out The Glitches Until The Last Minute

After years of delay, the Expo Line is finally opening today. But within the last few days, there was still some question about whether the line would open on time.MTA engineers have been working over the last several weeks to correct a persistent signaling problem, which can cause trains to stop au ... More >>

L.A. Bus Rider Passes Out, Vomits on Herself -- and No One Calls 911 for Over an Hour

Have bus riders in Los Angeles become so jaded and antisocial that no one thinks to help a passed-out woman with vomit running down her chin for almost an hour-and-a-half? The Eastsider L.A. reported yesterday that Echo Park resident Jamie Goodwin boarded one of the L.A. Department of Transportatio ... More >>

Residents Sue OverCrumbling L.A.

City Council ignorant about state of infrastructure

Green Bike Lanes in Los Angeles: City Officials Waste $15K on Premature Paint Job

LADOT Bike Blog via FlickrSecond time's a charm. (We hope.)​Mixed feelings, these past few weeks, about L.A.'s quickly expanding arsenal of green bike lanes -- part of an adorable national trend. The new lanes are, literally, neon green. Though some grumpy drivers see it as yet another blight ... More >>

Occupy L.A: As City Debates Cost of Occupation, Port Spends Nearly $200,000 on Party

Moet & ChandonDrink up, City Hall.​As the skies of tolerance for Occupy L.A. are getting gloomy (both Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and city Councilman Bill Rosendahl have expressed that there are limits to how long demonstrators can camp out next to City Hall), our own tolerance for bullshit gro ... More >>

The Fountain: A Battle for Hearts, Minds & Permits in East Hollywood

In early 2010, Mino Jegalian's family purchased a low-rent, five-unit retail property at the southwest corner of Fountain and Normandie, retaining three of the original tenants, and adding a fourth. But the corner unit, once home to a rowdy dive bar called the Grasshopper, remained vacant, unable to ... More >>

L.A. Bike Plan Troubles

Hummer House? L.A. Architecture Firm HplusF Makes Residential Lemonade Out of Gas-Guzzling Lemons

Hummer vs. girl.​Ah, the much-maligned Hummer, destroyer of rugged terrain, vestige of the go-go '00s, guzzler of gasolina. In its life under the General Motors umbrella it had become the symbol of all things eco-unconscious. Well, time heals (unless you're dealing with global warming, in whi ... More >>

Porn Video Featuring L.A. Parking Officers Leads to The Boot For One of Them

NBC4Parking porn is way better than parking tickets.​L.A. city employees have been caught going to strip clubs, drinking beer and even apparently napping on-the-job in recent years. It's great work if you can get it. But what's the world coming to when you can't participate in a porn video wh ... More >>

L.A. Mayor's Choice to Head Embattled Transportation Department, Jaime de la Vega, Drove a Taxpayer-Funded Hummer

Your taxpayer dollars at work.​The L.A. Department of Transportation has been in hot water lately. Not only have a couple of parking enforcement officers been caught doing porn on-the-job, but city Controller Wendy Greuel recently revealed a special, get-out-of-parking-tickets-free program for ... More >>

Gold Card Parking Ticket Dismissals for City Hall VIPs Over, Says Mayor Villaraigosa

Mayor V.​L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Friday pulled the plug on a controversial "gold card" program that allowed City Hall VIPs to essentially get parking tickets voided. The existence of the program was revealed yesterday by City Controller Wendy Greuel, who said about 1,000 tickets ha ... More >>

Parking Officers Allegedly Caught in Porn Video Placed on Leave, Under Investigation by LAPD

NBC Los AngelesApparently this area was for loading and unloading only.​Looks like those two on-duty L.A. parking officers allegedly caught working double time in a porn shoot are finally in hot water (and not the good kind you might find in a jacuzzi, either). On Sunday L.A. Department of T ... More >>

Parking Ticket Scofflaws Cost L.A. Nearly $15 Million: City Controller Wendy Greuel Blames Lax Parking Enforcement

Disney/Pixar​Lax parking enforcement has robbed the city of L.A. of nearly $15 million, money that's much needed at City Hall faces more than $450 in red ink this summer. City Controller Wendy Greuel released an audit of the L.A. Department of Transportation (LADOT) today that found that park ... More >>

How to Pay Off Your Parking Tickets And Get Your Car Towed in L.A. Anyway: A True Story

The victim: A 2008 Toyota Highlander.​Question: When is it okay for authorities to have your car towed even after you've paid all your parking tickets. Answer: Pretty much any day in L.A. (Yay). It actually happened last week to Angeleno Chris Fitts, who told the Weekly he paid off all his p ... More >>

Oscar Night Marred by Big Sinkhole on Highland Avenue in Hollywood

oceanUPJustin Bieber and Selena Gomez at the Vanity Fair party Sunday.​Update: The water-main break was fixed and traffic was reopened in time for the morning rush -- about 6 a.m. -- the DWP reports. The eyes of the world are on L.A. Sunday night and we give them ... ... a giant sinkhole. Y ... More >>

The Bikeroots

City Council candidate Stephen Box and L.A. bicyclists roll into the halls of power

Tickets Gone Wild? Angelenos Complain About Increase In Traffic, Parking Tickets AsBudget-Stretched City Looks To Raise Money

Lord JimMore tickets from the L.A. Department of Transportation?​Anecdotal reports suggest a rising chorus of complaints over traffic and parking tickets in the city of L.A. as officials try to raise money to close an ever-present budget gap. This week blogger Lawrence Myers on Andrew Breitba ... More >>

Bike Wars: L.A. Neighborhood Councils Could Get Some Say In Bike Issues

Councilman Greig Smith​Damien Newton of LA Streetsblog has an interesting piece about a potential conflict between bike activists and neighborhood councils, though it may wind up in peace, love and harmony. Backstory: City Councilman Greig Smith, who represents district 12 in the Valley, has ... More >>

Street Closures Around Staples Center Planned For Tonight

​Be prepared for street closures around Staples Center during and after the Lakers game Thursday night, Los Angeles Police Department Central Traffic Division officials told LA Weekly. The usual suspects -- Chick Hearn Court, Figueroa Street, Pico Boulevard and Cherry Street -- will eventually ... More >>

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