#  CD5 Candidate Jesse Creed Wants for Safety Improvements for Westwood Blvd

     Details    Joe Linton   ![logo](https://mail.citywatchla.com//templates/ja_teline_v/images/logo.png)         January 12 2017      [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2017/504r.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/neighborhood-politics/12432-cd5-candidate-jesse-creed-wants-for-safety-improvements-for-westwood-blvd)

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> NEIGHBORHOOD POLITICS--LA City Council candidate Jesse Creed hosted a [press conference](https://www.facebook.com/creedforcouncil/videos/vb.1984719661753809/2143352259223881/?type=2&theater) to call for safety improvements on Westwood Boulevard. Creed is running for the Westside’s Council District Five.
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> Creed declared that, due to more than 300 injury collisions over the past five years, Westwood Boulevard is “virtually a deathtrap.” According to Creed, despite Westwood being among the 15 mayoral Great Streets Initiative sites for the past two years, “virtually nothing” has changed. Due to high rates of collisions and death, Westwood Blvd. is part of the city’s [Vision Zero High Injury Network](http://la.streetsblog.org/2015/08/24/garcetti-signs-vision-zero-directive-to-end-traffic-deaths-by-2025/), streets that experience more than their share of deadly crashes. Creed stressed that his priority is to “make Westwood Boulevard safe for everyone” and pledged that “one of his first actions as councilmember” will be to commission a safety study for Westwood.
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> Creed was joined by Westwood residents, academics, and business leaders, all of whom called for greater safety features, including bike lanes, on Westwood Boulevard. Residents and business leaders criticized a lack of representation. UCLA professor Michael Jerrett, a bicycle commuter himself, criticized bike lane opponents as “putting peoples’ lives at risk.” Many speakers emphasized connections between UCLA, which is implementing a bike-share system this year, and Metro rail stations, including the existing Expo Line station and the future Purple Line subway station.
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> Creed is drawing a clear distinction between his platform and the record of Fifth District incumbent Councilmember Paul Koretz. [Koretz quashed an earlier study of designated bike lanes for Westwood Boulevard](http://la.streetsblog.org/2013/11/19/homeowners-kill-study-of-westwood-blvd-bike-lanes-as-councilmember-koretz-caves-in/), and further [undermined the city’s Mobility Plan by yanking Westwood from the city’s Bicycle Enhanced Network](http://la.streetsblog.org/2016/06/23/amendments-to-remove-central-westwood-bike-lanes-from-mobility-plan-add-substitutes-move-through-planning-commission/).
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> *(Joe Linton is the editor of* [StreetsblogLA](http://la.streetsblog.org/2016/11/30/l-a-city-council-approves-1-4-billion-sidewalk-repair-program/) *... where this perspective was first posted. He founded the LA River Ride, co-founded the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, worked in key early leadership roles at CicLAvia and C.I.C.L.E., served on the board of directors of Friends of the LA River, Southern California Streets Initiative, and LA Eco-Village.)*
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> *-cw*

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