DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
City of Los Angeles
100 S. Main St. • Los Angeles, CA 90012
www.ladot.lacity.org • @LADOTofficial
Dear Angelenos:
I am proud to present Great Streets for Los Angeles, the strategic plan for the Los Angeles Department
of Transportation. This plan, the most far-reaching of its kind ever produced by the department, will help
guide us in delivering safe, comfortable streets that ease travel for all modes and give Angelenos a wide
array of transportation choices to meet the needs of a thriving, growing city. This document focuses on
the goals set out by Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City Council, and it reflects an open and extensive dialog
among agency staff, city leaders, and policymakers to address the demands placed on our streets by
everyone who lives, works, and plays in Los Angeles.
A renewed commitment to safety centers the plan with the ambitious goal of reducing traffic deaths to
zero within 10 years. Almost half of the traffic fatalities on our streets today are people walking or
biking, and Los Angeles has double the national average rate of children and older adults who die while
walking. Each of these deaths represents a tremendous loss for families, neighborhoods, and our city. The
design of our streets can change these trends in a powerful and permanent way, partnering engineering
with enforcement, education and outreach.
Our streets are true public spaces which can draw people to visit local businesses, interact with their
neighbors, and build physical activity into their daily lives. The annual cost of health care and lost
productivity due to obesity in Los Angeles County is $6 billion, and a quarter of our city’s children are
obese. Strengthening safe routes to walk and bike to schools and parks is key to reversing this trend.
Our success in providing a wide array of choices can reduce the transportation burden on household
income and make our city more affordable. Complete, well-organized streets can also reduce up to 40
percent of greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks by enabling people to travel by other means
for short trips.
Achieving these outcomes requires a new playbook for street design and new priorities to manage
our roads effectively. The plan calls for continued investment in the latest X