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Collision Injuries in Beverly Hills Sill Reach for Record Highs in 2017

April 2, 2018April 5, 2018 Mark Elliot data, Office of Traffic Safety, safety, Traffic and Parking Commission

In the eleven years that BHPD has been providing monthly traffic data, nearly 5,000 people have been injured in crashes. Beverly Hills ranks among the most dangerous small California cities for crash injuries – a distinction that reflects our poorly-designed roadways and declining enforcement.

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Developer’s Rash Tree-Felling Highlights Hazards for Riders (Editorial)

December 21, 2015 Mark Elliot Beverly Hills Courier, Beverly Hills Land Company, Lyn Konheim, Parcels 12 and 13, safety, Santa Monica Boulevard

The Beverly Hills Courier, the perennial champion of anti-Metro hyperbole, has rotated its turret toward toxic contamination on Santa Monica

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Celebrating Geography Awareness Week, We Look at Some Bike Maps

November 21, 2015April 11, 2019 Mark Elliot auto-centric planning paradigm, Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills bike plan, Culver City, Glendale, multimodal mobility, safety, Santa Monica, West Hollywood

To mark the close of Geography Awareness Week (which began Monday) we’re offering a few maps that highlight the varying

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Beverly Hills Signed on to the USDOT Mayors’ Challenge. Now What?

October 28, 2015February 9, 2018 Mark Elliot Anthony Foxx, Complete Streets, Martha Eros, Mayors' Challenge, safety, Santa Monica, USDOT

Earlier this year, then-Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation challenged American localities to make travel safer for bicycle riders

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Qatari scofflaw and his Ferrari
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Qataris Behaving Badly? Let’s Focus on the Homegrown ‘Sheikhs’

October 5, 2015October 5, 2015 Mark Elliot Beverly Hills Courier, Beverly Hills Weekly, BHPD, collision, Lester Friedman, Qatar, reckless driving, safety, Traffic and Parking Commission

What’s more ridiculous than wasting ink on the now-departed Qatari sheikh who hot-rodded around Beverly Hills this August? The fact

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Would You Double Down on Yesterday’s Planning Paradigm?

August 19, 2015August 19, 2015 Mark Elliot auto-centric planning paradigm, Bruce Feldman, Los Angeles Times, safety, Santa Monica

Today the Los Angeles Times ran an op-ed critical of efforts to plan for multimodal mobility. Titled, ‘Mr. Mayor, L.A.

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Hazardous Intersections That Need a Safety Upgrade TODAY

August 15, 2015August 15, 2015 Mark Elliot collision, collision reporting, continental crosswalks, KPCC, safety, Santa Monica Boulevard

A couple of weeks ago we reported on a genius LA Times interactive called Walking in L.A. that mapped 817

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Construction Mitigation in Beverly Hills #FAILS Riders

July 22, 2015November 11, 2015 Mark Elliot Aaron Kunz, safety, Santa Monica Boulevard Reconstruction, traffic mitigation, Waldorf

You’re riding westbound on North Santa Monica Boulevard. You’ve made it though the dreaded SM-Wilshire intersection and you’re waiting to

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Beverly Hills Intersections May be Hazardous to Your Health

July 18, 2015July 18, 2015 Mark Elliot collision reporting, data, LA Times, safety, Traffic and Parking Commission

To our list of distinguishing features Beverly Hills policymakers can now add another: our intersections rank among LA County’s most

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Is a Mandatory Bike Helmet Law the Answer?

February 25, 2015September 20, 2019 Mark Elliot Carol Liu, helmets, safety, SB 192

State Senator Carol Liu recently introduced a bill that would require every bike rider regardless of age to wear a

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File Under ‘Crap Facilities’: Dangerous Crescent Dr. Sharrows [Updated]

January 29, 2015March 6, 2015 Mark Elliot #CrapFacilities, facilities, safety, sharrows

City of Beverly Hills was warned many months ago about this improper placement of sharrows on Crescent Drive: As explicated

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Beverly Hills Should Take the Foxx US DOT Challenge

January 23, 2015June 15, 2021 Mark Elliot Anthony Foxx, FHWA, Julian Gold, safety, US DOT

Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, appointed by President Obama in 2013, is continuing the efforts predecessor Raymond LaHood to make

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LA Councilman’s Hostility Toward Complete Streets Sounds Familiar

December 28, 2014May 14, 2020 Mark Elliot Fig4All, Flying Pigeon, Gil Cedillo, Highland Park, Los Angeles, NELA, safety, Santa Monica Boulevard Reconstruction

Northeast Los Angeles neighborhoods can seem a long way from Beverly Hills, but a scrum over bicycle lanes there suggests

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Jerry Brown: No Friend to Vulnerable Road Users

October 4, 2014June 21, 2021 Mark Elliot Jerry Brown, safety

Governor Jerry Brown has again proven his administration to be no friend to bike riders. He’s just vetoed four bills

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Gran Fondo Italia Comes to Beverly Hills on 9/28

September 15, 2014September 15, 2014 Mark Elliot Beverly Hills Chamber, Convention and Visitors Bureau, events, Gran Fondo Italia 2014, Lili Bosse, safety, Santa Monica Boulevard

The Gran Fondo Italia ride, an annual for-profit ‘packaged’ bike ride & marketing extravaganza, comes back to Beverly Hills with

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