Drivers using Duane Street as a short cut across the hills to Silver Lake Boulevard during morning drive got a surprise Thursday.
An officer from the Los Angeles Police Department's Central Traffic Division was stationed just south of the intersection of Silver Lake Boulevard and Duane Street.
He told us he'd written a number of tickets for people making illegal left turns off Duane on to Silver Lake Boulevard just that morning.
Signage there notes that the turn is prohibited from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
According to the officer and others the signs have been there for many years, but folks keep ignoring them. The officer said he's on Silver Lake Boulevard for six years enforcing them regularly at the request of Duane Street residents who don't commuters driving through their hilly neighborhood, which overlooks the 2 Freeway terminus.
Not all residents like the vigilance. One Duane Street resident we talked to said he did not mind the extra vehicles and blamed the call for heightened enforcement on a few individuals.
Is it working?
The officer writing tickets told us it was often locals who were getting the tickets, including Duane Street residents.
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