Hollywood and Highland's Terrifying Crosswalks Are Getting a Safety Facelift

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Assuming that you reach daylight from Hollywood & Highland's labyrinth-like parking garage, the next survival challenge is actually crossing the street. The tourist hot spot's "clusterfucky" intersection—unsurprisingly one of LA's most dangerous—will soon be converted into a safer scramble crosswalk, notes our sister site Curbed LA.

The crosswalks will soon score a redesign that will "allow pedestrians to cross from all intersections in every direction, including diagonally, at the same time," per a press release from LA City Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell. Curbed adds that the upgraded crosswalk should be ready by the end of the year.