The City of West Hollywood is giving residents until Jan. 31 to point out the problem areas affecting drivers, scooter riders and pedestrians.
An interactive map available at https://dks.mysocialpinpoint.com/westhollywood#/ allows users to make notes on specific intersections and roads.
Some of the comments already posted include:
CRESCENT HEIGHTS/SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD: “Slip lanes are dangerous for pedestrians. Drivers creep into crosswalk, looking over their shoulders, waiting for a break in traffic and fail to check for pedestrians before proceeding. Suggest closing slip lanes altogether and giving space back to community and businesses for park space or outdoor dining space.”
WEST KNOLL/SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD: “This is a crosswalk not an intersection. When crossing from south to north there is no pedestrian light status. The problem is the wait time; The wait time is 90 Seconds. I see people every day press the button, wait a reasonable amount of time, then just cross. this crosswalk would be better served with a crosswalk light (as they do on fountain) or make the response time shorter.. It was actually safer during covid. I’ve brought this up before and was dismissed”
LA CIENEGA: “Rideshare double parking and slow, chaotic valet parking makes the right lane completely useless *especially* during evening hours. This causes back ups with cars trying to change lanes or forcing both lanes over the double yellow line to get around them.”
SWEETZER/SANTA MONICA: “Bus safety: Areas where buses stop at night need to be well-lit and kept safe (no people using bus shelters as their personal spaces for prolonged periods / overnight). Women and trans people who ride buses need consideration. Don’t just ask residents about this — please talk to people who work at the grocery stores, hotels and shops. Many are women who work late hours (or pre-dawn hours), and their safety needs to be considered. Someone from the City should talk to these people in person.”
The interactive map is a part of the WeHo’s new Target Vision Zero strategy which is meant to, according to the city:
“eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries, while increasing safe, healthy, and equitable mobility for all. First implemented in Sweden in the 1990s, Vision Zero has proved successful across Europe – and is now gaining more momentum in many cities throughout the United States and locally in Los Angeles County. Vision Zero starts with the belief that everyone has the right to move safely in their communities, and municipality designers and policy makers share the responsibility in ensuring safe systems for travel.”
The City of West Hollywood is working with transportation consultants at DKS Associates to develop the plan in coordination with an assembled taskforce of City of West Hollywood Advisory Board Members and Commissioners. Once initial public input has been reviewed and analyzed alongside historic collision data, draft recommendations for mitigation strategies will be shared with the community before the draft plan is presented to the City Council.”
Now make a Map of the Problematic areas where The Homeless Lurk !
Here’s an idea: if we really want anything to become of this, just claim racism exists at one of the crosswalks and Sepi will be on it faster than flies on 💩.
I clicked on the link and the instruction page was sitting in the middle of the screen with no other access.
Odd.
Try scrolling down and clicking on “Welcome!”?
Three-fifths of the council – the self-righteous clowns – couldn’t care less about the concerns of residents. Talking to you, S-E-B.
Making very simple issues…..super complicated. Dimwits.
This map is giving me, “Show me on the doll where Sepi hurt you.”
This is a great initiative! I feel lucky to live in a city that solicits my input. The crosswalks on Fountain that were met with so much mockery have worked to reduce the large number of pedestrians being hit/killed. I wish they could assign someone the task of seeking out the streetlight outages around the city. There are some areas that are very dark, especially here on the east side.
The crosswalks worked so well they’ve decided to reduce the number of lanes by half!
when I was on the Disabilities advisory board, Bob Cheung came to our meeting asking for volunteers to be on the vision zero task force. I asked him point blank, are scooters going to be included in the study? and he said that yes they were. When I attended the first virtual meeting, the moderator talked about cars, public, transportation, and bicycles, but said nothing about scooters. So I asked him if scooters were included, and he told me that no they were not. Plus, he told me that all the statistics were from 2021 which I felt are outdated.… Read more »
The most dangerous corner in West Hollywood? That would be the southwest corner of Santa Monica and Sweetzer of course. Can’t get any worse.
One idiot was racing down Santa Monic sb sidewalk on a scooter. I was carrying a package to my car. He hit the package and crashed into to a tree. LOL
Santa Monica Blvd/Orange Grove Ave. I have to try to remember to slowly peek around the corner before stepping out onto SMB because people come flying by on the SIDEWALK on scooters. I’ve almost been hit DOZENS of times. I’m a disabled senior and it is hard to get out of the way quick enough when they come flying down the sidewalk. They also fly up and down the yellow ramps at the intersection or SMB and Fairfax. It’s just a matter of time before I get hit. And that could be really damaging to my old body. ☹️
First off, people in Sweden are historically better behaved than West Hollywood.
Secondly, focus on the last paragraph where the City persists in making simple issues complicated. Consultants, hearings, commissions, public study groups, neighborhood coffees put such distance between the issues and the resolutions while giving the appearance of inclusion that their methodology obfuscates the problem which then appears unresolvable and overly expensive. Cute interactive diagrams are inaccurate and don’t provide ample information. Check out the clumsy one initiated by Planning for Developmemt projects.
Completely agree with your second point. But do you have any metrics to back up your first claim or is it just your opinion?
Mostly my opinion from personal experience. However people in almost any place seem better behaved than WH. This is a very odd and silly place on numerous levels as a result from folks that crave attention through victimhood and many that are employed by the city but seem disconnected from it.
Because WH has become a “do whatever you want” we don’t have laws or police.