The L.A. Department of Transportation will bring bike lanes and other changes are coming to a busy corridor next to Los Angeles State Historic Park in Chinatown. 

The project, which would cover a roughly 1.2-mile stretch of Alameda Street and North Spring Street between Union Station and Wilhardt Street, calls for removing one vehicle travel lane in each direction to install Class IV protected bike lanes. Additionally, plans call for new pedestrian hybrid beacons at Spring Street's intersections with Mesnager Street and Ann Street, new protected left turns signals, a bus boarding island at Alameda's intersection with College Street, and ADA-compliant curb lamps at numerous locations

The project corridor was identified as a priority for bike lanes in the City of Los Angeles's Mobility Plan 2035, which was adopted one decade ago. This stretch of Spring and Alameda includes multiple intersections prone to traffic collisions, with 46 occurring between 2013 and 2022. That includes six fatal or severe injuries, all involving cyclists and pedestrians.

Spring and Alameda run along the eastern fringe of Chinatown's commercial core, and are easily accessed by the A Line's elevated Chinatown Station at College Street. Spring also serves as a dividing line between Los Angeles State Park and industrial neighborhood the east, where multiple large apartment buildings have been developed. Despite the influx of housing and the nearby park, there are no signalized crossings of Spring for a more than half-mile stretch between Wilhardt and College Street.

The Department of Transportation is similarly looking to implement protected bike lanes on busy segments of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in South Los Angeles and Pico Boulevard in Central Los Angeles.

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