Some families in West Los Angeles are taking safety into their own hands as neighbors and volunteers in Sawtelle paint yellow cross walks at the intersections leading to Stoner Park.<\/p>\n
They say they don\u2019t want to wait for someone to get hurt for the city to get the job done.<\/p>\n
Someone driving by or walking across might not even know that those crosswalks weren\u2019t painted by the city.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re in that yellow traffic paint seen all over our roads and they\u2019re in uniform rectangles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The crosswalks were painted by neighbors at the four intersections leading here to Stoner Park.<\/p>\n
There are many families who walk around that area and many children who use the park for their summer camp so they wanted the crosswalks to be another visible sign for drivers to slow down.<\/p>\n
However, the city doesn\u2019t seem pleased. The Los Angeles Department of Transportation says no crosswalks were requested for these intersections and they weren\u2019t approved, either.<\/p>\n
Only the city can install crosswalks to make sure they\u2019re meeting the state\u2019s safety standards.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The person who led the effort said he brought these safety concerns up to his neighborhood council but didn\u2019t see anything change.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe city spent time and money and effort painting over or removing crosswalks, including ones that I’ve painted in Hollywood. So I wouldn’t be surprised if the city removes these crosswalks, maybe even more so now that they know that they’re not sanctioned, because I don’t know if that was obvious,\u201d Jonathan Hale said. \u201cSo, it is an act of civil disobedience, and I made my bed, and I’m prepared to lay it in if it comes to that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hale said he\u2019ll paint them again if they\u2019re removed and he has the community\u2019s support.<\/p>\n
Other volunteers and neighbors have been helping him with this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some families in West Los Angeles are taking safety into their own hands as neighbors and volunteers in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":91682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,60837],"class_list":{"0":"post-91681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-west-la"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114914545077629740","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}