LA City Council OKs plan aimed at derailing street racing

The Los Angeles City Council passed a question connected Tuesday, Sept. 14, aimed astatine curbing amerciable thoroughfare racing by adding deterrents astatine communal locations of races.

The question was introduced by Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez, who noted that thoroughfare racing typically happens successful areas with wide, consecutive roads that person debased levels of postulation and casual entree to freeways and large roadways that let participants to rapidly disperse.

Traffic calming measures — specified arsenic thoroughfare humps, rumble strips, raised halfway medians, curb extensions and postulation circles — could beryllium engineered successful these areas to deter racing, Rodriguez’s bureau said.

The motion, which was seconded by Councilman Bob Blumenfield, instructed the Department of Transportation, the Bureau of Street Services, the Los Angeles Police Department Street Racing Task Force, the Bureau of Engineering and the Los Angeles Fire Department to collaborate connected a study with recommendations for specified measures that could beryllium implemented successful areas with predominant amerciable thoroughfare racing.

Recommendations would see impermanent devices that could beryllium installed and removed from the areas, and the study would diagnostic a representation overlaying known racing corridors and intersections with postulation information from Vision Zero, Los Angeles’ ngo to destruct postulation deaths by 2025.

“Enforcement cannot beryllium the lone solution,” Rodriguez said aft introducing the question connected Aug. 3. “We request to besides see a proactive attack utilizing thoroughfare plan elements that marque it hard for drivers to behaviour the benignant of thoroughfare takeovers and velocity events that are endangering our communities.”

The question besides instructed LADOT and the LAPD’s Racing Task Force to conscionable each 4th and study to assembly member’s offices connected thoroughfare racing information successful their respective districts.