The Doubling Up of Second

By Eric Richardson
Published: Friday, April 20, 2007, at 12:26PM

Eric Richardson

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — I hadn't been up to Bunker Hill lately, so until yesterday I hadn't realized that the project to extend upper 2nd from Olive to Grand was underway. This first phase will provide just enough of the street to fulfill the fire exit requirements for Colburn's new tower (which is itself looking pretty good).

I'm in support of this project simply because it helps grow Downtown's ever-confusing network of multi-level streets. I put a Downtown route together for an IAAL-MAF one time and called it the 3D Ride. Twice over the course of the route we crossed the same X/Y coordinate at three different Z elevations.

These streets may not be the easiest to understand in a car, but I think they make Downtown more interesting.

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Rico A writes:

Lots of street work going on in DTLA lately. Near Olvera Street/Union Station, Los Angeles Street's median is being reworked (with some tacky Vegas-style palms and some interesting trees), the sidewalks have been expanded (or are in the process of being expanded) over the freeway and on the east side of the street north of the freeway. The sidewalk on the east side of Main Street is also being widened from the freeway to Arcadia Street.

There's work being done at the intersection of North Main and North Alameda to add curbs and maybe bigger sidewalks.

# on Apr.20.2007 AT 01:36 PM

Joel C writes:

I noticed this a couple weeks ago (my daughter goes to Colburn). It's about time. This is a basic linkage that's been missing for awhile now. It's also been on the Bunker Hill Redevelop Project's list of priorities for years.

# on Apr.20.2007 AT 01:57 PM

The Doubling Up of Second

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