Glendale presents La Crescenta Avenue overhaul; residents debate bike lanes, evacuation impacts

City staff on Oct. 14 updated the Glendale City Council and neighborhood residents on a multi‑component redesign of La Crescenta Avenue that will reconfigure travel lanes to add a center turn lane and bicycle facilities, realign intersections and install new traffic signals while upgrading sidewalks, adding Americans with Disabilities Act curb ramps and upsizing a sewer main.

The city’s project manager, Rotem Tavitian, senior civil engineer and project manager for the La Crescenta project, told the meeting the work has reached 60% completion as of October 2025 and that crews have already built a bioswale, completed an intersection realignment and are upsizing sewer pipes from an 8‑inch to a 12‑inch PVC main. “As of October 2025, the project is 60% complete,” Tavitian said. He said the city expects construction to conclude in March 2026, “bearing any unforeseen conditions,” and that remaining work includes finishing the sewer upsizing, installing traffic signals and final paving and striping.

The project includes renderings and a planned pedestrian HAWK beacon at Lockhart Center and Piedmont to help people cross to nearby institutions, and staff…