By Armand Emamdjomeh

July 17, 2014

L.A. City Councilman Gil Cedillo announced he is indefinitely halting work on bike lanes planned for a three-mile stretch of North Figueroa Street, despite an aggressive two-year campaign by cycling advocates.

A Times review of accident data between 2002 and 2012 found a total of 221 car-versus-bicycle or -pedestrian accidents between Avenue 26 and York Boulevard — including nine fatal events. The review shows that Figueroa has a greater number of accidents than other major corridors in the northeast L.A. region.

Points on the map are collected from the SWITRS statewide accident database, and where precise points were not provided, geocoded to the nearest intersection. Clusters are colored to represent the highest level of severity accident at that intersection.