La Cienega Boulevard Study

SCAG, in coordination with Culver City, Inglewood, the City of Los Angeles, and the County of Los Angeles, has initiated a planning study to examine ways to improve traffic flow on La Cienega Boulevard and lessen the impact of regional traffic on local residents. The project study area includes the La Cienega Boulevard corridor between the San Diego (I-405) and Santa Monica (I-10) Freeways, and incorporates Fairfax Avenue from Venice to La Cienega Boulevards.

This 5-mile segment of La Cienega Boulevard provides a critical north-south route through the Baldwin Hills area, and serves an alternative (shortcut) connection between the I-10 and I-405 freeways. These two factors make La Cienega Boulevard one of the most heavily traveled and congested surface routes in the region, carrying over 85,000 vehicles per day. La Cienega Boulevard was originally intended as a full functioning freeway leading north into the San Fernando Valley. As such, freeway transition lanes were created decades ago as part of the I-405 construction. A 3.3-mile stretch of La Cienega Boulevard between Rodeo Road on the north and Fairview Boulevard on the south is already a divided grade-separated roadway.

Both the City of Inglewood and the City of Los Angeles have cooperatively made many attempts to manage this extraordinary traffic volume through their communities. Traffic and signal management measures helped; however they were not enough to alleviate the traffic demand. The study will identify potential strategies to improve traffic flow, such as medians, additional turn lanes, and enhanced traffic signal coordination. The study will also look at potential intersections that could benefit from the construction of an overpass or underpass for through traffic on La Cienega Boulevard. The study will involve two rounds of community meetings to share information with members of the public and ensure that their input is incorporated into the study.

The study is expected to conclude in June 2010.

What's New

• La Cienega Boulevard Corridor Improvement Project FINAL REPORT
  (7.65 MB)
• La Cienega Boulevard Corridor Improvement Project Existing Conditions
• La Cienega Blvd Corridor Improvement Project Presentation
  Community Input Meetings
  March 29 & 30, 2010
• La Cienega Blvd Corridor Improvement Project Presentation #2
  Community Input Meetings
  June 16 & July 1, 2010

Contact

If you have questions or comments, please contact Philip Law at (213) 236-1841 or by email at law@scag.ca.gov.

Study Area