The same applies for making a turn at an intersection when your light is yellow.When proceeding straight through an intersection at a green light, ensure there is enough space from the intersection to the crosswalk without obstructing the passage of cars on either side.The section is pretty technical, but we can provide you with a few key takeaways. What does the California Code say about CVC Section 22526?ĬVC Section 22526 forbids any driver of a vehicle from blocking the intersection of a highway. As a result, gridlock on the roadway is a common experience for most California drivers. The state’s packed roadways and heavy traffic are nationally infamous. One out of eight residents in the U.S lives in California, with such a diverse population no single race or ethnic group constitutes a majority.ĭespite such great diversity, it seems that most California drivers are on the same commute schedule. Approximately 40,000,000 currently reside in California. Maybe Metro can look into a similar camera programs to ensure that Los Angeles’ Wilshire BRT delivers the ridership benefits projected.California is one of the most populated states in the country. Other cities, notably New York and San Francisco, use on-bus traffic cameras to enforce driver compliance with bus-only lane laws these cities do still experience some issues with scofflaw drivers impeding transit. For my (admittedly small) sample last Friday, I saw no traffic enforcement on Wilshire Boulevard. In my observations of the Metro Silver Line BRT running on freeway ExpressLanes, a visible traffic enforcement presence has helped ensure that errant drivers do not get in the way of that BRT project’s success. County Sheriff Department also patrol Wilshire bus lanes?) County Sheriff officers did this, not LAPD.
There is some evidence that, despite “BIKES OK” signage, LAPD sheriffs sometimes wrongly ticket s cyclists on the Sunset Boulevard bus-only lane. The first phase of the bus lanes opened in June 2013, so, for some stretches, there should be a couple years’ worth of enforcement records. SBLA will make inquiries to LAPD and find out how LAPD bus-only lane enforcement activity has been proceeding. After some police enforcement, the word would likely get out, and drivers would stay out of the lane, benefiting the commute times for the tens of thousands of Wilshire bus riders. It seems that a few LAPD motorcycle officers patrolling these lanes at morning and evening rush hours could easily write dozens of right turn violation tickets. Times‘ description) enforcement opportunity as LAPD’s ill-advised downtown pedestrian ticketing.
This situation is as much of a proverbial fish-in-a-barrel (to use the L.A. I uploaded four videos showing numerous peak-hour right turn violations–see above, and here, here, and here. Both rapid and local Wilshire buses were arrive very frequently at the peak commute hour, though, between buses, there was still often a one or two-minute space that law-breaking drivers file into. I stopped at a handful of intersections, and every time observed multiple cars breaking laws by proceeding straight ahead through right-turn-only intersections. Signage on Wilshire designates right turn only during peak commute hours.Īt the start of each bus-only lane block, the pavement is marked “BUS LANE.” At nearly every intersection from Beverly Hills to MacArthur Park, there are signs that state “RIGHT LANE BUSES RIGHT TURNS ONLY 7AM-9AM 4PM-7PM MON-FRI.”
The majority of drivers did respect and stay out of the bus-only lane. I observed dozens of these cars clearly impeding the progress of the very frequent Wilshire buses. to 5:30 p.m., I observed hundreds of drivers breaking traffic laws, most of them driving straight ahead through right-turn-only designated intersections, but also two cars illegally parked in the designated “anti-gridlock” tow-away no-parking lane. That car and the one behind it followed me through the intersection, ignoring the right-turn-only designation for cars in their lane. This Mercedes with license plate 6JJH202 is blocking the Metro 720 bus from getting to the Crenshaw Blvd stop. Unfortunately, many peak-hour drivers are breaking the law by driving in the exclusive bus lanes. Metro forecasted that the Wilshire Boulevard peak-hour bus-only lanes will significantly improve commute times for the more than 25,000 people who board Wilshire Boulevard buses at peak hours every weekday.īut those improvements will only materialize when the bus-only lanes only have buses in them. On April 8, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and other Metro, federal, county, and city leaders cut the ceremonial ribbon opening the second phase of the $31.5 million Wilshire BRT (Bus Rapid Transit). All photos by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A. Illegally parked car blocks the Wilshire BRT peak-hour bus lane last Friday.
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