#  Cyclists, Hikers Urge Park Advisory Board To End Griffith Park Parking Trial

     Details    Joe Linton   ![logo](https://mail.citywatchla.com//templates/ja_teline_v/images/logo.png)         March 30 2015       [ARCHIVE](https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive)   - [  Previous Article **Beware LA City Hall Spinmeisters** ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8743:beware-la-city-hall-spinmeisters&catid=16)
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> ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Mar-2015/027e.png)NEIGHBORHOOD POLITICS-Last night, over a hundred people who walk or bike in and near Griffith Park attended the Griffith Park Advisory Board meeting to express opposition to a [current 3-week trial allowing cars on formerly car-free Mount Hollywood Drive](http://la.streetsblog.org/2015/03/24/griffith-park-traffic-response-poorly-defined-free-parking-expansion-pilot/). In an attempt to deal with the problem of “too much traffic,” the city of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks (DRP) has opened one mile of Mt. Hollywood to driving and parking.
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> A month ago, that quiet park road was off-limits to cars, and home to people on foot and on bike, and even [coyotes](https://instagram.com/p/vGv6f9RORW/) and other wildlife. Today, it serves a parking lot.
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> DRP Assistant General Manager Kevin Regan stressed that spring break was the heaviest time of the year for Griffith Park, with car traffic sometimes backing up onto adjacent surface streets. “There’s a ton of people coming and there always will be” Regan stated. His statements tended to conflate “people” solely with cars and parking.
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> With the large standing-room-only crowd in attendance, and more than 50 speaker cards on the Mount Hollywood Drive item, the park board decided to cap testimony at 20 minutes.
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> Nobody spoke in favor of the pilot. *([Read the rest.)](http://la.streetsblog.org/2015/03/27/cyclists-hikers-urge-park-advisory-board-to-end-griffith-park-parking-trial/%20)*
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