Crenshaw Boulevard was one of many high-traffic areas tabbed for the Great Streets improvement initiative put forth by the city of Los Angeles. After a presentation covered by Urbanize.LA, there’s now a much better idea of what those changes will look like on Crenshaw in Hyde Park between 79th Street and Florence Avenue.

The highlights of the impending improvements to the half-mile stretch include new medians with trees and pedestrian islands, high-visibility "zebra" crosswalks, curb extensions to shorten pedestrian crossing distances, new landscaping work along existing parkways, improved ADA ramps, and signal modifications at critical intersections.

Plan Courtesy of LA Great Streets

The improvements were all called for in earnest following a fatal car crash in 2013. That incident led the community and city to raise $2 million for safety improvements in that specific area of Crenshaw Boulevard. 

These changes could get underway this August, according to the stated timeline, and run through September 2018.

Crenshaw is just the latest thoroughfare to start progressing toward the safety goals outlined by the Great Streets program. Mar Vista’s section of Venice Boulevard completed its own changes just last month, centered around bike lanes and safer pedestrian crosswalks. The city has continued to add more busy streets to the growing list since the project began back in 2013.