The Mayor's about to hold a press-conference to announce something that should have been doing all along: Fixing traffic-light timing at the city's worst intersections.
LADOT's Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control Center (ATSAC, which hosts these terrific traffic maps) will be tweaking lights at 35 intersections to move traffic through more smoothly - and supposedly cut wait times by 22 seconds and decrease travel time by 35%.
Operation Bottleneck (hold your snickers, please, until we see how well this works) focuses mainly on downtown, the west side and the Valley. Here are the 35 intersections involved:
1. 3rd St & Rossmore Avenue
2. Alvarado Street & Temple Street
3. Alvarado Street, Berkeley Avenue & Glendale Boulevard
4. Alvarado Street, Berkeley Avenue & Glendale Boulevard
5. Avenue San Luis, Calabasas Rd & Valley Circle Boulevard
6. Beaudry Avenue & Wilshire Boulevard
7. Beverly Boulevard & La Brea Avenue
8. Beverly Boulevard, Stanley Avenue & The Grove Drive
9. Cadillac Avenue & La Cienega Boulevard
10. Coldwater Cyn Avenue & Ventura Fwy E/B Ramps
11. Crenshaw Boulevard & MLK Jr Boulevard
12. De Longpre Avenue & Highland Avenue
13. Figueroa Street & Vernon Avenue
14. Highland Avenue & Hollywood Boulevard
15. Highland Avenue & Melrose Avenue
16. Hoover Street & Venice Boulevard
17. Jefferson Boulevard & La Cienega Boulevard
18. La Brea Avenue & Washington Boulevard
19. La Cienega Boulevard & Pico Boulevard
20. Lankershim Boulevard & Victory Boulevard
21. Laurel Canyon Boulevard & Ventura Boulevard
22. Lincoln Boulevard & Washington Boulevard
23. Long Beach Avenue & Washington Boulevard
24. National Boulevard & Westwood Boulevard
25. Olympic Boulevard & Soto Street
26. Pico Boulevard & Robertson Boulevard
27. Pico Boulevard & Westwood Boulevard
28. Roscoe Boulevard & San Diego Fwy S/B Ramps
29. Roscoe Boulevard & San Diego Fwy S/B Ramps
30. Roscoe Boulevard & Topanga Canyon Boulevard
31. Santa Monica Boulevard & Western Avenue
32. Sepulveda Boulevard & Sherman Way
33. Sepulveda Boulevard & Vanowen Street
34. Sepulveda Boulevard & Wilshire Boulevard
35. Veteran Avenue & Wilshire Boulevard