{"id":464815,"date":"2026-09-15T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/464815\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T20:42:09","slug":"one-of-l-a-s-deadliest-roads-is-next-to-two-famous-cemeteries-now-its-a-flashpoint-for-the-mayoral-race-l-a-taco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/464815\/","title":{"rendered":"One of L.A.\u2019s Deadliest Roads is Next to Two Famous Cemeteries. Now It&#8217;s a Flashpoint for the Mayoral Race ~ L.A. TACO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A one-mile stretch of road has become a political flashpoint in the Hollywood Hills.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The long-standing dispute centers on plans to address an especially dangerous section of Forest Lawn Drive that is adjacent to Griffith Park and situated between Memorial Drive and Zoo Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2013, the mile-long stretch has seen 95 crashes and four deaths, including a fatal crash last month that <a href=\"https:\/\/la.streetsblog.org\/2026\/08\/21\/deadly-forest-lawn-crash-reinforces-push-for-safety-improvements-paused-by-mayor-bass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">renewed calls<\/a> for added safety measures.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2013, the mile-long stretch has seen 95 crashes and four deaths, including a fatal crash last month that <a href=\"https:\/\/la.streetsblog.org\/2026\/08\/21\/deadly-forest-lawn-crash-reinforces-push-for-safety-improvements-paused-by-mayor-bass\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">renewed calls<\/a> for added safety measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A one-mile stretch of road has become a political flashpoint in the Hollywood Hills.\u00a0 The long-standing dispute centers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-464815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}