Comments on: Melbourne: A Pedestrian Paradise

By: Damien Newton

Damien Newton — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:07:50 +0000

If I did a comment of the week like Curbed and (I think) LAist do, I think half the posts on this thread would be there. I’ve been laughing since I started reading them.

By: Clarence

Clarence — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:03:37 +0000

I am telling everyone, if Melbourne was in the U.S. I would already have packed my bags and moved there. It is that nice.

By: piocan9

piocan9 — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:39:54 +0000

Arcades and Outdoor Cafes. With the money I save not driving I’ll be able to eat well.

Let’s gather round and start praying for this stuff.

By: piocan9

piocan9 — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:37:35 +0000

Arcades and Outdoor Cafes. Let’s gather round and start praying for this stuff.

By: ubrayj02

ubrayj02 — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:50:54 +0000

L.A.’s “Working Class” Reporter: Looks like nothing but a bunch of commies! What are they all doing out in the streets? Planning another strike? Shut them down. I bet all those people are illegal aliens. The whole thing smacks of an unsafe social engineering experiment and global gentrification.

L.A. Technocrat: The market places resrouces at optimal distances to distribution point demand sites along the axis of reduce travel times. This style of street design reduces accessibility to consumer level throughput mechanisms.

L.A. Politician: We need to bring relief to commuters by widening these congested bottlenecks with inceased improvements to ATSAC signal sychronization timing. Commuters are exhausted with congestion, and I am here to offer them a new car lane to congest.

In other words, even though this type of public policy works, we’re going to ignore it.

What would it take to make L.A.’s politics support street planning and design like this? Enthusiasm exists for this stuff – but elected officials use these planning ideas at their own peril.

Where is the Liveable Streets voting block?

By: Fred Camino

Fred Camino — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:42:06 +0000

Gawd those poor people. Why would anyone want to live like that? Forced out of their super comfy private automobiles and having to choose whether to get around on train, bus, bike, taxi, or… god I can hardly say it… by walking. The money they must save! What a nightmare. Ugh, imagine having to sit outside in beautiful weather and enjoying life? No thank you. I didn’t even see a single smog check place in that whole video! What a waste.

Thank god we live in Los Angeles guys.