Comments on: Streetfilms: San Francisco’s Foggy Sunday Streets http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/09/09/streetfilms-san-franciscos-foggy-sunday-streets/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Adonia http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/09/09/streetfilms-san-franciscos-foggy-sunday-streets/comment-page-1/#comment-30081 Adonia Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:00:25 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=10591#comment-30081 Anyone interested in working on a ciclovía for Los Angeles should check out ciclavia.wordpress.com, the website for cicLAvia. And if you've got hundreds of thousands of dollars lying around, pass it on so we can pay for a street closure! Anyone interested in working on a ciclovía for Los Angeles should check out ciclavia.wordpress.com, the website for cicLAvia. And if you’ve got hundreds of thousands of dollars lying around, pass it on so we can pay for a street closure!

]]> By: ubrayj02 http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/09/09/streetfilms-san-franciscos-foggy-sunday-streets/comment-page-1/#comment-30061 ubrayj02 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:11:09 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=10591#comment-30061 It is clear to me, after having watched this video, why this won't happen in L.A. any time soon. Our city is based on preventing this sort of meaningful human contact at all costs. The Sunset Junction festival and numerous other events held in the streets are allowed only if there is a barrier fence, a gate fee, and/or numerous costly studies that absolve the City's various departments from any perceived "liability". The first thing the papers would report on for an event like this would be "OMG, there was no parking at the car-free event! This is elitist!". Maybe in a few years, with a more enlightened mayor's office, we'll get the Ciclovia-style events we ought to have. Until then, sigh, it's up to Streetsblog to keep the dream alive. It is clear to me, after having watched this video, why this won’t happen in L.A. any time soon. Our city is based on preventing this sort of meaningful human contact at all costs. The Sunset Junction festival and numerous other events held in the streets are allowed only if there is a barrier fence, a gate fee, and/or numerous costly studies that absolve the City’s various departments from any perceived “liability”. The first thing the papers would report on for an event like this would be “OMG, there was no parking at the car-free event! This is elitist!”.

Maybe in a few years, with a more enlightened mayor’s office, we’ll get the Ciclovia-style events we ought to have. Until then, sigh, it’s up to Streetsblog to keep the dream alive.

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