{"id":460533,"date":"2026-09-11T12:58:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T12:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460533\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T12:58:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T12:58:32","slug":"l-a-city-breaks-ground-on-spring-alameda-bike-walk-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460533\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. City Breaks Ground on Spring\/Alameda Bike\/Walk Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, the city of Los Angeles officially broke ground on its Spring\/Alameda Safety and Mobility Project, located in Downtown L.A.\u2019s Chinatown. Construction has been underway for over a month<\/a>. The $7.5 million 1.2-mile project is upgrading walk and bike access to Union Station, Chinatown Station, L.A. State Historic Park, El Pueblo, and more. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>LADOT map of Spring\/Alameda project \u2013 via project fact sheet<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>LADOT rendering of Spring Street improvements, including concrete-barrier-protected bike lanes<\/p>\n

The project includes new protected bike lanes, two new signalized crosswalks (at Ann and Mesnager Streets), sidewalk repairs\/upgrades, pedestrian head-start signals, partial street resurfacing, and more.<\/p>\n

Via an existing short stretch of on-street protected bike lanes (on Avenue 19<\/a> and Broadway<\/a>), this Alameda\/Spring project will connect the ~7.5-mile long Glendale Narrows L.A. River bike path<\/a> into downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

The project is mostly located in the first council district, represented by Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>L.A. City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez speaking at today\u2019s groundbreaking<\/p>\n

\u201cFor far too long we have designed our streets for moving cars, and asked everybody else to figure out how to survive around them\u201d declared Hernandez. \u201cThe consequences have been deadly.\u201d Hernandez noted that, over a ten year period, this part of Alameda and Spring saw drivers crash into 46 people walking or biking. \u201cTraffic violence is a policy choice, and today we\u2019re choosing differently.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few blocks of the project \u2013 at and near Union Station \u2013 are represented by City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado. Today Jurado celebrated the project for providing \u201creliable access to our central transit hub\u201d by building \u201ca more equitable transportation network across L.A.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Karen Bass praised the Spring\/Alameda project for making \u201cone of our most important corridors\u2026 safer for everybody.\u201d Bass emphasized that this project is part of the city\u2019s nascent Capital Infrastructure Program<\/a>, which Bass credited for reducing project delays and costs, and getting \u201call city departments working off of the same page.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"LADOT rendering of signalized crossing at Spring Street and Ann Street<\/p>\n

City Engineer Crystal Lee observed how today people were having to sprint across Spring Street at Ann Street, where the project is adding a needed new signalized crosswalk. Lee emphasized that this project will \u201cmake our neighborhood safer for our residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Spring\/Alameda improvements are funded by grants from Metro and the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG).<\/p>\n

Construction got underway in July<\/a>, and is expected to finish by early summer 2027. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>L.A. City crew working on sidewalks today at Alameda and Main Street<\/p>\n

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